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I grew up on a Windows desktop filled with little programs that felt more like companions than utilities — simple, decisive tools that did one job well and got out of your way. A recent nostalgia piece that compiled six of those vanished apps — Microsoft Works, MSN Messenger, Microsoft Encarta...

If you’ve ever watched someone casually use Git for grocery lists, lecture notes, or a personal journal and assumed they were trying to show off, the MakeUseOf piece makes a blunt but practical counterpoint: using Git to sync notes is surprisingly accessible, solves real problems that...

The day-to-day grind of maintaining a sprawling Obsidian vault finally pushed one user to try a different path: they migrated thousands of notes into Joplin, and within weeks declared they weren’t going back — praising Joplin’s genuinely open-source model, straightforward sync options, and...