I cheated on the text editor with the graph database

And I like to be open to new connections

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I always loved to write. Just to give you an idea, my grandparents had a little school where they taught typewriting. I learned touch typewriting when I was very young, and I loved it.

In high school, I attended a bookbinding workshop just to learn to stitch my own binding notebooks. I love good notebooks for journaling — Moleskine-style notebooks.

When the first text editors and word processors came to personal computers, there was an attraction for their technology and novelty. But of course, at the beginning of the PC era, the user interface wasn’t exceptional.

I had my preferences, of course. I don’t know why but Word Perfect — both, the MS-DOS and Windows versions — looked a much better option than Microsoft Word. But everybody ended using Word, anyway.

More recently — especially with the arrival of the iPad — a new rise of text editors came to market. Maybe some users were a little bit tired of how the word processors became the bloating software they are now. Maybe some users were tired of dealing with different file formats and the problems of conversion. Maybe some users just wanted a place to write in the way I loved to write in one of the typewriting machines at my…