Just use Doom. Its good.

why is this front page on HN

The CIA runs hacker news.

Well that made me lol! (Edit: oh. now that i've seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42987770 it's not so funny; too bad)

FWIW the CIA does not run Hacker News. (that I know of)

You believe what we want you to believe.

if you have to ask this question you are in a wrong place :)

No, its not how other people operate. Most people are like you and use notes for exactly what they are used for. This making the front page is wild to me. Just write anything semi-contrarian and you are good to go.

I think the article could easily be rewritten from the perspective of "dumping your excess thoughts / stream of consciousness into note files for later examination or future discarding is good because..."

Because as mentioned, some notes are evolving documents, and others are just scrap files. And I do get a lot of value out of shelving thoughts and ideas for many of the reasons the article describes. It's just written as an unnecessarily grand sweeping generalization.

Jeez, notes are for remembering... how could anyone question that? What even is this article? I could not disagree more.

someone hits the "submit" link, fills out a few form fields and hits the submit button.

Pretty surprised something like this would make it on the front page of HN. Oh well.

Yeesh, Reddit is not that good, huh.

Can you replicate this? This isn't happening for me on the latest Firefox. What browser and operating system are you using?

I think it works for more than that!