Somewhere along the way, anxious attachment crept into the fabric of modern relationships, clawing its way to the forefront of people’s minds. The need for constant validation–proof of love in the form of texts, check-ins, and uninterrupted attention–has become an expectation rather than an exception. Because if they’re not responding right away, if they’re not reaching out first, if they’re not offering reassurance on demand, then do they even love you?

Love should be something that strengthens you, not something that makes you feel like a shell of yourself, hollowed by the weight of someone else’s expectations.

I think Apple Notes’s use of hashtags, rather than real tokenized tags like in the Finder, was an enormous mistake on Apple’s part. Real tokenized tags can contain spaces (so a multi-word tag can just be “Words Written Naturally” not “#WordsCrammedTogether”) and don’t need to be prefixed with an ugly, nerdy-looking # character.

I think it would be a huge mistake for Apple to make Apple Notes a “Markdown editor”, even as an option. It’s trivial to create malformed Markdown syntax; it shouldn’t be possible to have a malformed note in Apple Notes. I craft posts for Daring Fireball; I dash off notes in Apple Notes.