HN user
I've been seeing them live since these days. I recently took my two teenage sons to see them. They're both fans. But, during the second encore, one son turned to me and said "Dad, I'm tired. Can we go?"
I pointed to John and John on stage who were working hard and said "You know, those two guys are senior citizens, right"
You took the words out of my mouth. Exactly my experience, except I deleted my account in 2020. Evernote taught me to stop trusting startups with critical services, to manage my own notes, and to always have an exit strategy.
I felt that way until I stumbled upon a usage I didn't anticipate: Helping my teenage son with his math and physics homework.
Generally, I know the concepts he's working on but I've run into a couple problems. First, they don't use textbooks at his school. It's just poorly made slideshows from the teacher that don't clearly explain any topics. So, to get to parity with his understanding, I'd have to hear the teacher explain it.
Second, his work will generally reference names of laws, theorems, etc. that I'm not familiar with. Usually, I'd search for a document, Khan academy video, or some other YouTube video but this has been time-consuming.
I started asking ChatGPT: "Take on the role of a high school teacher in an advanced physics course. Give me a basic explanation of [insert law name here]. Please provide at least two examples and a reference URL."
This has been incredibly useful.
I like what I see with Obsidian in my test drive but it's a proprietary tool with a license that only protects the company, no terms of service, no privacy policy or even a statement about data usage and collection.
I get that the md files are stored locally, but I have no way of knowing what information about my files is collected and stored.
I'd like to use it but I'll need a little more on the transparency side of things.