I don't need any more unnecessary decorations. I want to share the appeal of "Antinote," which makes text work dramatically more comfortable.

Recently, I've been having fun building a Data Lakehouse at home, using Apache Superset to perform BI on massive amounts of data, and putting my own apps into a local Docker repository before deploying them to a server.

Since I operate mainly through the CLI, I use "plain text" very often. However, many note-taking tools that are rampant in the world today exist in "rich text format," and when I temporarily modify and paste text, I often find unexpected line breaks, unexpected spaces, or missing characters. I am a copy-paste refugee.

In the midst of this, I was looking for a scratchpad that could just handle plain text temporarily, and I found it.

It's Antinote

This thing is amazing.

Of course, you can paste text as is. It also cleanly removes decorations from things that were originally rich text. Depending on the settings, you can remove unnecessary tabs and spaces, and you can finely define things like not pasting bullet points or empty lines.

I thought it was just a tool for handling plain text, but it can actually perform calculations, unit conversions, checklists, timers, extract text from images, and automatically keep pasting copied content, making it easy to realize the little things you want to do with text.

Mind you, many of the various tools I have already implement these features partially, and there are many that are easy to use.

Antinote's wonderful point is that you can achieve this with just shortcuts and text input.

Most engineers like me who use the CLI daily don't want to use a mouse, and typing a little text is often safer and faster than complex shortcuts.

The fact that you can operate such snappy feature sets "using only text" is very philosophically sound and matches my mood well. And above all, the gratitude of being able to process things truly with just text. It is wonderful that it properly implements what can be called obvious things, without strange malfunctions like unnecessary Markdown conversion, weird rich text conversion, or sudden glitches in Japanese input.

I am often fed up with apps originating from English-speaking countries due to poor compatibility with IMEs, but that is no longer the case at all. There is nothing better for safely inputting and examining text before posting to LLMs or social media.

Everyone who works mainly with text, please try using this Antinote first. This isn't stealth marketing or anything; it's just really helping me out.