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Do yourself a favour and write in plain text. I'm keeping a journal (on a computer) since 2003 and have lost many entries due to app crashes, moving between OSe
by amorphous 8y ago
Do yourself a favour and write in plain text. I'm keeping a journal (on a computer) since 2003 and have lost many entries due to app crashes, moving between OSes and so on.
There is no need for a proprietary data format in 2018 anymore. Using plain text as the basis, organise your files in folders if you like, encrypt and sync using some cheap (or free) cloud storage provider, and on top of that choose your favourite editor (I use iaWriter because of nice UI + the ability to simply drag images into a file).
You may get hooked on keeping a journal (as I have - one of the best decisions I made) and you will not only amass a lot of text (I have written the equivalent of 4000 book pages) but also want to do this for a long time (speaking decades), far longer than the life-span of most if not all journaling apps.
If you use a proprietary format, at least make sure that the app has a decent export function that creates a result that doesn't require manual changes by you.