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I realize the task of recording your favorite .onion names is a small expense of keeping your traffic private, but why is "taking notes in a text file" considered ad-hoc now? That wasn't the case in 1990, where most computer users had a library of floppy drives with their personal documents, notes, and records. Has the world truly forgotten that you can store data in textual form to your computer's filesystem? With how iOS is designed to hide the filesystem, it seems so. I hear so many app ideas now that could be solved with just a single text file and editor.



Good point about the filesystem, but this sounds like a really annoying and slow task to have to manage manually. If someone wants to write an app that spares me the drudgery of copying and pasting out of a text file every time I want to go on a website, I will use that app. Not to mention the reduced cognitive load from having fewer open windows to manage, and one less thing to have to know where I put it.


Am I missing something obvious, or isn't this something browser bookmarks/favorites would handle? I.e. storing a more human friendly title/description/tags for complicated URL's & paths.

This doesn't help with the potential complexity of sharing or remembering (on a new device) the sites of course.


But then the user has to create a file, in their filesystem. Hard work! They have to remember the name of it, and type things and everything. They have to press enter at the end of lines and keep it all organised. It's so hard.

It's up to you to determine whether the above is satire.




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