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I guess the real answer is "a folder of text files you sync." You don't have to use Orgmode or emacs at all to get a good chunk of the benefit here. True, you
by ubermonkey 8y ago
I guess the real answer is "a folder of text files you sync." You don't have to use Orgmode or emacs at all to get a good chunk of the benefit here.
True, you can't do rich text or media, but it turns out I almost never even WANT to do that.
Anyway, I was doing sync'd text with a Mac tool called Notational Velocity for years before I got sucked into OrgMode (emacs' Deft mode is a workalike). Point any iOS or Android editor at a Dropbox folder and you've got mobile sync on the cheap with versioned backup and more or less ever present and completely open data that works on any platform.
OneNote and EN may have some shiny features, but NOTHING they do is worth locking your data up.
- bloopernova 8y ago> True, you can't do rich text or media, but it turns out I almost never even WANT to do that. And the times that you do, you can use Markdown and Pandoc to convert it. And mdfind/spotlight will index and search it just fine, as will any other search tool you wish to use. I lament some of my coworkers inability to see the utility in text+markdown+pandoc or even just a plain old wiki like Dokuwiki. I've lost count of the number of times I've had to wait a day for someone to dig out an excel spreadsheet to email me an immediately-out-of-date copy. While I will joke about how people would find it so much easier if they just did everything I said, I do wonder why so many people keep themselves permanently handicapped by their choice of information storage and sharing.
- ubermonkey 8y agoWell, what is easy and intuitive and quick for you might not be for other folks, so there's that. The immediate staleness of traditional Office docs is a downside, but the upside is that you have a copy you control. It falls down a little on collaboration, though.