Personal knowledge tools fail to replace a single markdown file workflow
A veteran founder describes managing their entire personal task and knowledge system in one Markdown file, despite years of note-taking and knowledge-management products entering the market. The underlying tension is that existing knowledge-management tools have not displaced simple plain-text workflows for some power users.
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