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Random Notes
Personal blog · scottnesbitt.onlinewritingproductivityculture
Random Notes is a personal blog at scottnesbitt.online about writing, productivity and culture. Since 2022, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “Use Plain Text Email?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-18, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link a post about the difference between information and a truncated second term, in a thread on taking notes without getting smarter. The comment only links it as a related read.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Use Plain Text Email?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-21
What Hacker News says?
Reminds me of this blog post: https://scottnesbitt.online/the-difference-between-informati...
Comment linking /the-difference-between-information-and-knowledge.html
on “You Take Notes but Never Get Smarter”Submitted Dealing with Your Ideas as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use Plain Text Email? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use Plain Text Email? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted On Reading More Books as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
