Yesterday I have installed iTerm2. The main reason might sound a bit strange though.

The idea was seeded in my mind a few days ago, when after a long time switching between different terminal file navigators, I decided to remove all but one from my system.

“What terminal file managers?” you may ask. I had quite a few installed over time:

• ranger
• nnn
• lf
• superfile
• yazi

ranger was the first file manager/navigator I’ve learned about; it’s been a long while since. ranger was also the one that I used the longest contiguously.

1. Anil Dash: “Understanding DOGE as Procurement Capture”:

   The bad-faith style of engagement, the endangering of workers who have .00005% the wealth of the richest man on earth, the ignoring of obvious waste in defense spending… all of these signs show us that DOGE isn’t about what it pretends to be.

   It rings so possible that is scary, very scary. I cannot think of anything I disagree with on this article. And I really wanted to be able to say: “this is not true and it won’t happen in America”.

A friend shared his excitement, and joy, of using a new notes app. That made me very curious and intrigued.

I thought I could do a bit of preparation before adding yet another notes app.

What kind of preparation though? How about answering the question: what features am I looking for in a notes app?

Here’s the list of features I came up with:

1. Support rich formatting. (A)
   1. Support inline code and block code (A1)
   2. Support embedding images (A2)
   3. Support for attachments (A3)
2. Automatic geo-location of the notes (B)
3. Automatic timestamp management (creation date, last modification date, etc.) (C)
   1. Support ordering based on these (C1)
4. Good search
   1. Search by title, tags
   2. Search by dates
   3. Search by location
5. Offline mode
6. Available on all platforms
7. Sync (push better)
8. Support for automation (create notes)
   1. Append to existing notes
9. Retrieve notes using API or other mechanisms
10. Import notes
11. Export notes
12. Advanced editing features
    1. History
    2. Folding
    3. Outlines

This list is not ordered. There are things on this list that I consider mandatory. Take for example the presence on all platform and synchronization. Without these, I wouldn’t even consider a notes app.