Try to see some org-mode Emacs videos on YT and co, you'll discover the real meaning of "notes" and "computer usage" :-)
For instance https://youtu.be/B6jfrrwR10k but also, https://youtu.be/5ViUBaarsbw a bit exaggerated but nice. Notes are just personal documents, text means information, and automation on information means IT. Actually a notes-based computer system/environment is a desktop, is what we need and miss today.
Crappy compartmentalization of modern "apps" is the opposite, is the need for business against the user need and interest. Personally I have in "notes" essentially anything thank to the Emacs ecosystem:
- my files are org-attached, accessed via search&narrow thanks to org-roam
- links in notes point to pretty anything, mails threads, specific messages or mail search queries (all local, locally indexed maildir by notmuch, something better than GMail and under my total control), feeds (posts I decide to keep), bank transactions (any kind, from transfer to stocks passing through grocery expenses)
- notes form my agenda with SCHEDULED, DEADLINE, TODOs meta-information adding to a heading, org-agenda scan all notes to form a view, a single page or more than one, letting me selecting what I want to see (look for) or not
- queries on notes (org-ql) and transclusion means the ability to form/see my web of information "putting on the desk" (screen) just what I want in a semi-automated manner
- notes are also literate programming environments, spreadsheets, slides, all integrated with all meta-information I might want to add, I can place, link-to-execute, pass data from a code block to another, with code blocks of various languages, like pipes in the shell, but in a 2D environment instead of the CLI, I can create a table with all "formulae" I want like a spreadsheet but without the need to open separate tools and with the ability to use any language for them (included the built-in "calc" CAS)
Peoples these days use Google search and the modern web just because they are unable to make their own, collaboration included, notes with desktop computer environments are the tools need to substitute the centralized web of the giants to a web of personal information network shared as we want.
For instance https://youtu.be/B6jfrrwR10k but also, https://youtu.be/5ViUBaarsbw a bit exaggerated but nice. Notes are just personal documents, text means information, and automation on information means IT. Actually a notes-based computer system/environment is a desktop, is what we need and miss today.
Crappy compartmentalization of modern "apps" is the opposite, is the need for business against the user need and interest. Personally I have in "notes" essentially anything thank to the Emacs ecosystem:
- my files are org-attached, accessed via search&narrow thanks to org-roam
- links in notes point to pretty anything, mails threads, specific messages or mail search queries (all local, locally indexed maildir by notmuch, something better than GMail and under my total control), feeds (posts I decide to keep), bank transactions (any kind, from transfer to stocks passing through grocery expenses)
- notes form my agenda with SCHEDULED, DEADLINE, TODOs meta-information adding to a heading, org-agenda scan all notes to form a view, a single page or more than one, letting me selecting what I want to see (look for) or not
- queries on notes (org-ql) and transclusion means the ability to form/see my web of information "putting on the desk" (screen) just what I want in a semi-automated manner
- notes are also literate programming environments, spreadsheets, slides, all integrated with all meta-information I might want to add, I can place, link-to-execute, pass data from a code block to another, with code blocks of various languages, like pipes in the shell, but in a 2D environment instead of the CLI, I can create a table with all "formulae" I want like a spreadsheet but without the need to open separate tools and with the ability to use any language for them (included the built-in "calc" CAS)
Peoples these days use Google search and the modern web just because they are unable to make their own, collaboration included, notes with desktop computer environments are the tools need to substitute the centralized web of the giants to a web of personal information network shared as we want.