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[1]Steph Ango / [2]Writing [3]About [4]Now
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File over app
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July 1, 2023 · 1 minute read
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File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that
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last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve
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and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.
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File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is
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ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.
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In the fullness of time, the files you create are more important than the tools
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you use to create them. Apps are ephemeral, but your files have a chance to
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last.
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The ancient temples of Egypt contain hieroglyphs that were chiseled in stone
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thousands of years ago. The ideas hieroglyphs convey are more important than
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the type of chisel that was used to carve them.
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The world is filled with ideas from generations past, transmitted through many
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mediums, from clay tablets to manuscripts, paintings, sculptures, and
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tapestries. These artifacts are objects that you can touch, hold, own, store,
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preserve, and look at. To read something written on paper all you need is
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eyeballs.
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Today, we are creating innumerable digital artifacts, but most of these
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artifacts are out of our control. They are stored on servers, in databases,
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gated behind an internet connection, and login to a cloud service. Even the
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files on your hard drive use proprietary formats that make them incompatible
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with older systems and other tools.
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Paraphrasing something [5]I wrote recently
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If you want your writing to still be readable on a computer from the 2060s
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or 2160s, it’s important that your notes can be read on a computer from the
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1960s.
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You should want the files you create to be durable, not only for posterity, but
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also for your future self. You never know when you might want to go back to
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something you created years or decades ago. Don’t lock your data into a format
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you can’t retrieve.
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These days I write using an app I help make called [6]Obsidian, but it’s a
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delusion to think it will last forever. The app will eventually become
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obsolete. It’s the plain text files I create that are designed to last. Who
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knows if anyone will want to read them besides me, but future me is enough of
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an audience to make it worthwhile.
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Linked mentions
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[7]
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Photoshop for text
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In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as
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commonplace as filtering images.
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[8]
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Style is consistent constraint
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Having a style collapses hundreds of future decisions into one, and gives you
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focus.
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[9]
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Quality software deserves your hard‑earned cash
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Quality software is like quality food from the farmer’s market. A jar of
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handmade organic jam is not the same as mass-produced...
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[10]
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100% user-supported
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If you want to build principled software, avoid becoming VCware. Stay
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user-supported. It is now possible for tiny teams to build principled...
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[11]
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Obsidian
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A private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think. I am
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currently CEO of the company.
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[12]
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Obsidian Vault Template
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My personal Obsidian vault template. A bottom-up approach to note-taking and
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organizing things I am interested in.
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You might also enjoy
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• [13]Photoshop for text
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• [14]Evergreen notes turn ideas into objects that you can manipulate
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• [15]Concise explanations accelerate progress
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• [16]In good hands
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• [17]A bicycle for the senses
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• [18]Design is compromise
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• [19]40 questions to ask yourself every year
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• [20]100% user-supported
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• [21]Pain is information
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[22]Receive my updates
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Follow me via email, [23]RSS, [24]Twitter, and [25]other options
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[26][ ] [29][Sign up]
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[30] [31]Mastodon
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References:
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[1] https://stephango.com/
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[2] https://stephango.com/
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[3] https://stephango.com/about
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[4] https://stephango.com/now
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[5] https://obsidian.md/blog/new-obsidian-icon/
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[6] https://stephango.com/obsidian
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[7] https://stephango.com/photoshop-for-text
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[8] https://stephango.com/style
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[9] https://stephango.com/quality-software
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[10] https://stephango.com/vcware
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[11] https://stephango.com/obsidian
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[12] https://stephango.com/vault
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[13] https://stephango.com/photoshop-for-text
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[14] https://stephango.com/evergreen-notes
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[15] https://stephango.com/concise
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[16] https://stephango.com/in-good-hands
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[17] https://stephango.com/bicycle-for-the-senses
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[18] https://stephango.com/design-is-compromise
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[19] https://stephango.com/40-questions
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[20] https://stephango.com/vcware
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[21] https://stephango.com/pain
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[22] https://stephango.com/subscribe
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[23] https://stephango.com/feed.xml
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[24] https://twitter.com/kepano
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[25] https://stephango.com/subscribe
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