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BTW, the Seth Godin article I referred to was [Mode switching | Seth's Blog Godin](https://seths.blog/2021/01/mode-switching/). David Sparks has a similar concept, "contextual computing". [Linking and Contextual Computing — MacSparky](https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2020/12/linking-and-contextual-computing)

The background for Hook's is cognitive science / education tech R&D I and my co-founders had been doing 2001 (2003, 2006)- 2009 at SFU called gStudy and nStudy (www.sfu.ca/~lpb/tr/2009-Luc_P_Beaudoin-Phil_Winne-nStudy.pdf). We had been designing and implementing personal learning environment for Phil Winne's Learning Kit project at Simon Fraser University (SFU). The core concept I contributed from the beginning of my design was "linking anything to anything" within the system and web (cf. Ted Nelson and Douglas Englebart). We were implementing / incorporating tools in the PLE (note-taking, mind maps, web browser, flashcards, etc.) My Tundra-related insight that led to Hook was that instead of re-inventing the wheel (note-taking, mind maps, etc.) in a big PLE, I could allow users to use best of breed apps and simply connect all their resources with a nimble piece of software. So with Hook, users can use whatever software they like (e.g., for Note taking Bear, Obsidian, BBEdit, Apple Notes, whatever). Hook would serve the links, connect the items, and allow users to navigate in a popup window they invoke within the context of their favorite apps.

Last year I published a…

Incase used to make a laptop sling bag which was very slim and durable: it was my favorite bag ever and I'm sad I don't have it anymore. They do not currently sell a laptop sling bag AFAICT. (If anyone knows of a bag like this one: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2007/7/1/review-incase-sling-pack.html please let me know).

Recently I've been using a Timuk2 Command backpack, which is pretty minimal, but can expand quite a lot and is also very durable. I've had mine for almost 2 years and have done a lot of traveling with it and it is in excellent shape. The only downside is the laptop pocket is not easy to access without moving the straps and the actual laptop compartment is side loading which requires unzipping the whole thing. Good news is my lapop fits in the tablet slot so that's where I keep mine day to day.

I suppose that would make follow if you interpreted my comment in the most uncharitable way.

Microsoft used to be known for bending over backwards to maintain "backwards' compatibility. Or used to be... I am in the process of moving away from MS. They still don't kill products with millions of active users for political reasons (http://macsparky.com/blog/2013/3/the-rss-apocalypse) as far as I know.

But I was really referencing that I have no longer have any more desire to depend on a free product (i.e. where I "am the product"), and put myself at the mercy Google's increasing fickleness over what constitutes a viable following.

If you copy-paste from the notes app, it tends to do a reasonable job transforming it’s formatting into a plain-text representation.(Or rich-text, if you paste into an app that supports it, like Pages or Mail.)

There are a few apps around that can do this in bulk. I have one called Notes Exporter. Apparently Note2Txt is also good: https://www.macsparky.com/blog/2016/5/exporting-apple-notes-to-text-with-note2txt

I am a little worried that some day these tools will disappear, but iirc the notes are just kept in an sqlite database so it shouldn’t be too hard to hack your data out manually, either.