> In middle school, I created a Word doc to store my thoughts. That doc was my journal. I would write in it nearly daily, and often go back and reflect on what

> In middle school, I created a Word doc to store my thoughts. That doc was my journal. I would write in it nearly daily, and often go back and reflect on what I wrote. One day in high school, my hard drive failed. I lost it all—five years of my life—from a silly computer error. I felt like I lost a pet or something. It really hurt. Not to rub salt in the wound, but Word documents work well with printers. Periodically printing his documents would have insulated him from hard drive failures, while offsite backups would have also protected his data from house-fires. Unless something went wrong with both at once, he'd still have his data. Anyway, when I think durability, a webapp is the last thing to come to mind. What happens to your data in this webapp when the author gets bored in a year or two and shuts the project down? A locally hosted system with a transparent data format is clearly the way to go for something like this; something like org-mode perhaps.