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I've tried a bunch of different programs, apps and approaches but have (hopefully) finally settled on plain text files in Markdown, stored in a git repo in drop
by ianmcgowan 7y ago
I've tried a bunch of different programs, apps and approaches but have (hopefully) finally settled on plain text files in Markdown, stored in a git repo in dropbox. It seems to be working better than anything else I've tried, though OneNote was very close to perfect. I just have too many MS accounts because of contract work, and syncing/keeping it all straight became an issue.
I was inspired by all the posts about emacs org-mode, but couldn't go all the way to emacs, because VSCode has become the center of my coding universe. I'm surprised that's not the #1 answer (yet).
It's very liberating to be completely in control of the format and organization, and it's very easy to move things around as needed using familiar tools. I don't have a lot of screenshots or non-text things to remember, so markdown is fine for me.
Customers
->Customer A
--->Projects
----->Project A
Journal
->2019
-->201912
TechNotes
->Unix
->SQL
->Infolease
etc. etc.