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I started keeping favorite quotes in Hypercard back in 1987. I didn't pay attention when Hypercard went extinct 15 years later, and failed to do the work to ex

by lcuff 8y ago

I started keeping favorite quotes in Hypercard back in 1987. I didn't pay attention when Hypercard went extinct 15 years later, and failed to do the work to extract the data. Now I keep info in text files and grep is my friend. No spaced repetition, but tags go in as grep-able raw text too. Will Polar, or Evernote, or any other system, be around in 30 years?

mherrmann 8y ago
What do you do about more structured data, such as Excel files?
- lcuff 8y ago
  Great question: If it were just columnized data you could keep it in csv format, but Excel supports way more than that.
- prepend 8y ago
  Excel is a zip of xml now, so you can do basic text searches within them.
apostacy 8y ago
It's not hard to extract the data from your hypercard stack, though.
elviejo 8y ago
"Will... any other system be around in 30 years?" Yes, Emacs. "The editor of a lifetime" https://youtu.be/VADudzQGvU8 https://youtu.be/VADudzQGvU8
burtonator 8y ago
> Will Polar, or Evernote, or any other system, be around in 30 years? Yes.. that's literally why I called it Polar. It's designed to be a permanent vault for your data. This is why it's Open Source.