Y'know when you're doing this big multi-step DIY project that involves doing many things and getting parts and tools and materials and you're holding all this stuff in your head and you notice how much of a big noisy scrungly mess it is up there, all the thoughts and worries and tasks overlapping each other like spaghetti all going in different directions, and you grumble "This is ridiculous, a guy can't get anything done with all that yammering going on," so you start up the computer and the text editor and write out what's going on up there, not because you don't know what's going on but just because thoughts go wibblywoobly like gummy worms and writing goes left to right in a straight line and to turn your oh-I-need-to-do-this-and-that thinkings into a ah-I-need-to-do-this-THEN-that shaped Plan you need to untangle the spaghetti and make it go in the long straight writing-shaped hole

Do you ever think of that like brushing your brain

Like oh no my brain's all tangled I've gotta spend a few minutes giving it a nice brush and make it purr

Cruel tbh that the text editor, the program for untangling your spaghetti, lives in the same machine as the web browser for flopping more spaghetti into your skullbowl
@ifixcoinops ... it doesn't have to ........
@ireneista @ifixcoinops you know one of the reasons I love my Remarkable is that technically there's no real reason it couldn't have a web browser but intentionally it doesn't

@erincandescent @ifixcoinops way back in like 1998 a friend had a Mac Classic (for the young 'uns: it was obsolete at that time) which they'd use when they wanted to write, because it had no modem or games or anything loaded onto it

it's only gotten to be more relevant since

@ireneista @erincandescent @ifixcoinops that's a very good way indeed; myself I have an old Chromebook (Asus C302) converted to Linux that has not enough RAM to run a bunch of things at the same time, so it introduces friction to start a browser. It has a great keyboard though, so it's nice to note/write things on