From 75348a4556bd61e1c3807721b7b23700e4964044 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?benjamin=20melan=C3=A7on?= Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2020 20:52:22 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Blabbered on about the background --- atom-git-technical-notes-replacing-tomboy.md | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/atom-git-technical-notes-replacing-tomboy.md b/atom-git-technical-notes-replacing-tomboy.md index 370e9ba..90031ab 100644 --- a/atom-git-technical-notes-replacing-tomboy.md +++ b/atom-git-technical-notes-replacing-tomboy.md @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ Background In the early days of Agaric, [ben](http://agaric.com/mlncn) posted every error message, search query, and hare-brained musing to agaric.com. Under editorial pressure from collective members this was exiled to [data.agaric.com](http://data.agaric.com/), built by worker-owner Kathleen Murtagh in the then-new Drupal 6. Eventually ben internalized some sort of standards for publication, and the pace of posting dropped off— his incessant notetaking found a home in a local, unshared wiki-like notes application for GNU/Linux, Tomboy. -The +These notes were hard to share, however, so we've gone to a middle ground of taking notes locally in Git and publishing using GitLab Pages. + +The hard part for making it anywhere near as easy as Tomboy, which auto-titled notes, was making it so that typing out a file name to create or save a note wasn't necessary. The [Save as Heading package gave us an easy way to save files in Atom](https://agaric.gitlab.io/raw-notes/notes/2018-06-24savingfileseasilyinatom/), so we went with [Atom](https://atom.io/) despite its non-negligible resource usage with tons of notes. Future ------