Writing with upnote

Awhile back I had searched for a replacement app I could like to use to write. Obsidian makes me tired. It has too much. Too many bells and whistles. I wanted something easier. Faster. That just did syncing without conflicts and the service just stopping sometimes. I tried Joplin and NotesNook. Both kinda sorta did what I wanted. There was something else though. 

Hard to define. But I knew when I did not have it. Like perhaps the writing became more formidable or daunting. Truth is if I had an iOS device instead of android I would just use IA Writer for it all. It does all and I never feel it’s difficult. Or daunting. If you’ve used it you know it’s not some bells and whistles thing. It’s more like the writer and the words. 

So I found upnote. Tried it. Found a defect. Wrote them about it. They fixed it in days. The one thing I found affected my ability to publish my blog. I had to stop using it. Then I decided I could not split the writing into different apps. I have to have one app for,

• Journals. I don’t do just one. I just write them. Some link to others. Others I touch and rarely return to. But I want it all in one place. I like the connections. What I like to call the web of connections. 
• Blogging. Somewhere this comes along. Like this piece I just decide to write. Maybe I don’t know if it’s a blog post or some thought or idea. It should not matter. Everything should be together. More of those webs. 
• Essays, stories, thoughts, ideas. Whatever these are. I just write them. Sometimes in a coffee shop or on a bus or walking down some street. I stop and the android phone is my capture device. These could not live without being linked to the web if connections of my other stuff. 

And that’s one if the main ideas of things. Nothing lives in seclusion. It’s all my words. My takes. Cold and hot. Not a brain or knowledge management system. More like a personal container with no rules. One folder to rule them all. 

Obsidian does this. At a personal cost. I simply dislike the app. It works. It’s not what I want. Then I found upnote. There are drawbacks. There are advantages. I only pay now each month. Soon though I’ll just get it for the lifetime since it’s not expensive. 

I can write

And that’s the greatest. The bestest. The one thing which lets me deal with the rest of things. I don’t have some confidant to unburden myself to. Not like my wife with her rich social networks. I choose to really not want that. I don’t need some network of neighbors. Never have. 

So I write. And since for awhile I looked at how and what, now I just go back to the words. This app does not check all the boxes. It doesn’t need to. It just needs to satisfy me.