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Whenever I say that, a billion people always jump in and say 'Gimp and VivaDesigner and Natron and XYZ and PDQ' work fine for me,' and to my astonishment, they always seem surprised that the same just isn't true in most (any?) professional workflows. What about tools that work natively on Linux? They generally just don't work for professional design use.

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Having some weird graphics tablet driver problem or something can really kill the creative connection between me and my work, and if I'm coming down to the wire on a deadline, it can cost me a contract. Why don't I just run a closed-source OS in a VM? They are fussy. It's not a lack of understanding of how it works- Before I was a designer I was a developer, worked in IT for a while, worked in upper-level support for a while, and Linux was my primary personal and professional OS from the late 90s to like 2010. I'd love to switch to Linux, but as a designer, I'm stuck. But then I think the difficulty of the exercise is in setting the 'correct' level of complexity for this operation. While macOS does (for the moment) have this hatch, it looks maybe /too/ complex. But those OSs need to have an 'escape hatch' for someone who actually wants those features disabled and actually understands the risks of disabling them. In the end, I think the best way is for such features to be the default setup. Having people go through hoops and click through warning messages would probably also push companies to better design their software. So I think that for an OS like macOS, where most people flock 'because it just works and has no viruses', strict defaults are a sane choice.

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While most of Linux's audience (and probably practically all of NetBSD's) is rather technically inclined and could possibly be expected to turn on the security features as they need them, most of Windows' and macOS's audience will very likely have no idea that there is even an option to do this.ДЄlso, software companies would probably take the easy route and just assume that since those features aren't enable by default, most people don't enable them and develop their software in a way which could be incompatible with them. If you are serious about knowledge management and would like to get most of the The Archive, I would suggest that you explore the website of the developers, so as to get more understating about the app and the principles behind it, of which I written only generally here.It seems to me that the issue with this approach is that those commercial OSs have to deal with a way more diverse audience than NetBSD and even Linux.

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To summarize, The Archive puts forward some very interesting ideas, and, apparently, the more you commit to them, the more gain you will have. To the end of facilitation of interlinking (and you should be aware of this peculiarity right from the beginning), The Archive creates notes with a prefix ID consisting of the year, month, day, hour, minute number, and what that does, it assigns a unique address, so to say, to a note to which you can then in another note. The interlinking part plays a very important role here, as it is through the links from one note to the other, which may concern completely different fields of study, how thinking is expanded and novel ideas are generated. The Archive, of course, will not refuse to write to disk your note unless it was a creative writing -) but, rather, the act of original writing (to a degree) is part of the philosophy, and by doing that you will understand the subject matter better, will remember it better, etc. By distilled knowledge I mean notes in your own words as opposed to a simple copy/paste from a source. And the basic idea is that The Archive is to be a single depository of interlinked notes on any and all subjects, which you would collect in a form of a distilled knowledge that you obtained from reading something. The German word Zettelkasten literally means a 'slip box'.

The underlying philosophy and of The Archive, and how it is meant to be used, or at least this is how I see it having spent a bit of time with the app, is based on the work of the 20th century sociologist Niklas Luhmann, who developed the Zettelkasten Method of knowledge management that helped him to manage a lot of information and to be a prolific writer. The addition to the classic design is the 'Saved Searches' sidebar. And if you used nvALT and/or its predecessor Notational Velocity, then indeed you have! The Archive follows the same basic design cues of its spiritual ancestors-the app window has the omnibar, a list of notes, and an active selected note view. Opening The Archive for the very first time might feel like you've already seen that app somewhere before.