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For me the whole point of org-mode is that the stuff in it is to valuable to trust with a vendor that stores it in a proprietary format that cant be extracted i

For me the whole point of org-mode is that the stuff in it is to valuable to trust with a vendor that stores it in a proprietary format that cant be extracted in a meaningful way if the service/company folds.

NickBusey 9y ago
So one more note here, my open source Workflowy clone backs up all your data to a .txt file in your Dropbox every night. If my hosted service goes away, you can just run it locally, import the .txt file, and you're good to go. https://github.com/NickBusey/BulletNotes https://github.com/NickBusey/BulletNotes A large part of the reason I made it was for exactly the scenario you described. I run my entire life out of it and wasn't comfortable relying on one company for it.
- walkingolof 9y ago
  Can it be made to run locally on your machine ?
  - NickBusey 9y ago
    Absolutely. It's one `npm start` away.
    - TeMPOraL 9y ago
      Awesome! Starring it for this very reason (I'll probably run an instance for personal / family use, after I finish setting up the home server). I'm a big supporter of every web tool that you can self-host.
      - NickBusey 9y ago
        Great to hear! As far as I know no one besides myself has spun it up, so I'd love to hear how it goes!
        TeMPOraL 9y ago
        In that case, I'm putting this on my todo list (in org mode :)) and will spin up an instance on my home dev machine somewhen in the next 10 days (I'll have an extremely busy week). I'll get back to you with the report.
        eitland 9y ago
        Looks like something I'd really want. FWIW, I've already cloned it and was preparing a comment to say I had done it but instead it became: > + CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (Couldn't find b...ball to extract:String) [], RuntimeException > + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Couldn't find bootstrap tarball to extract > The install of meteor was NOT successful. > Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\meteor\tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1'. > See log for details. > Chocolatey installed 0/1 package(s). 1 package(s) failed. See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log). Couldn't even get Meteor to install on my Windows machine.
- kingkongjaffa 9y ago
  Nick, thank you for this, you've got another user!
  - NickBusey 9y ago
    Hey thank you! And please don't hesitate to create GitHub issues or let me know about any problems.
m12k 9y ago
While I'm sure this won't be what you want or care about, FWIW they do offer export into plaintext that could easily be massaged into any form you'd like (I'm sure it'd take at most a line or two of lisp to get it into org-mode) and can do so daily to dropbox.
kjksf 9y ago
Workflowy.com has export in 3 formats: formatted, plain text and OPML. OPML is about as standard as you can get in that space. It also has an option to backup to DropBox every day. dynalist.io also allows export in plain text and OPML.

NickBusey 9y ago

So one more note here, my open source Workflowy clone backs up all your data to a .txt file in your Dropbox every night. If my hosted service goes away, you can just run it locally, import the .txt file, and you're good to go. https://github.com/NickBusey/BulletNotes https://github.com/NickBusey/BulletNotes A large part of the reason I made it was for exactly the scenario you described. I run my entire life out of it and wasn't comfortable relying on one company for it.

walkingolof 9y ago
Can it be made to run locally on your machine ?
- NickBusey 9y ago
  Absolutely. It's one `npm start` away.
  - TeMPOraL 9y ago
    Awesome! Starring it for this very reason (I'll probably run an instance for personal / family use, after I finish setting up the home server). I'm a big supporter of every web tool that you can self-host.
    - NickBusey 9y ago
      Great to hear! As far as I know no one besides myself has spun it up, so I'd love to hear how it goes!
      - TeMPOraL 9y ago
        In that case, I'm putting this on my todo list (in org mode :)) and will spin up an instance on my home dev machine somewhen in the next 10 days (I'll have an extremely busy week). I'll get back to you with the report.
      - eitland 9y ago
        Looks like something I'd really want. FWIW, I've already cloned it and was preparing a comment to say I had done it but instead it became: > + CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (Couldn't find b...ball to extract:String) [], RuntimeException > + FullyQualifiedErrorId : Couldn't find bootstrap tarball to extract > The install of meteor was NOT successful. > Error while running 'C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\meteor\tools\chocolateyinstall.ps1'. > See log for details. > Chocolatey installed 0/1 package(s). 1 package(s) failed. See the log for details (C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\logs\chocolatey.log). Couldn't even get Meteor to install on my Windows machine.
kingkongjaffa 9y ago
Nick, thank you for this, you've got another user!
- NickBusey 9y ago
  Hey thank you! And please don't hesitate to create GitHub issues or let me know about any problems.

m12k 9y ago

While I'm sure this won't be what you want or care about, FWIW they do offer export into plaintext that could easily be massaged into any form you'd like (I'm sure it'd take at most a line or two of lisp to get it into org-mode) and can do so daily to dropbox.

kjksf 9y ago

Workflowy.com has export in 3 formats: formatted, plain text and OPML. OPML is about as standard as you can get in that space. It also has an option to backup to DropBox every day. dynalist.io also allows export in plain text and OPML.