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Who uses, recommends or left Simplenote, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Chris Wanstrath
Programmer; co-founded GitHub and was its CEO, and created the Mustache templating language and Resque.
loved

Kindle, Dropbox, and Simplenote bring me great joy.

His written "Uses This" interview, from GitHub's early years.

2010-12-03·usesthis.com ↗

Harper Reed
Technologist; former CTO of Threadless and chief technology officer of the 2012 Obama re-election campaign.
uses

I use Simplenote to keep track of random thoughts on my phone.

The Setup (usesthis.com) interview, given while he was CTO of the Obama 2012 campaign.

2012-02-01·usesthis.com ↗

What they also use

Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

A dashed affiliate link, sponsored or their own label means the post disclosed a relationship. It is shown, never hidden.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is for its kind of thing.

The shading behind a date shows how dated a recommendation is, for its kind of thing. Fully green is recent. It drains a quarter at a time as the post gets older, and is empty once it reads as dated.

What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:

Stripes mean the post carries no date and the date shown is an estimate. No date at all, no shading.