My requirements for a notes app and a rundown of candidates.

Note-taking apps for the data conscious

I believe software should be delightful to use. That it should not simply help us accomplish tasks—communication, collaboration, design, creation, thinking—but that it should feel pleasant, joyful, even fun to use while accomplishing these tasks.

Design for fidgeting

In my first week on the job as a software developer, I deleted an entire table’s worth of data from a client’s database. Luckily, we had a backup from the night before and that table was low traffic. What happened was that I thought I was on the staging server and I was doing some testing and needed to clear out the existing data. I was not on staging. I was on production.

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