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I’ve tried many, many different apps, and approaches over the years. On of my peeves is doing things twice, so here are, to my mind, the important decision mak
by CareyB 6y ago
I’ve tried many, many different apps, and approaches over the years. On of my peeves is doing things twice, so here are, to my mind, the important decision making factors:
1. cross-device/platform support. Once I was entirely Apple, I settled on Drafts (post processing when necessary), and Apple Notes. If you have multiple OS’s involved, the decision is harder (Evernote). The logic is that I wanted some contextually sensitive templates for field notes, and Drafts does that with its version of ‘macros’. Having the MacOS version makes writing reports from my notes is dead easy.
If you’re less concerned with re-typing, and/or transcribing, do what you want.
- groby_b 6y agoThere is a non-zero chance you won't always be on the same platform. That doesn't mean you shouldn't use the best app for your platform, but it's worth to think about how you migrate data out when that day comes. I've spent roughly a decade or so on each platform I've been on, and then moved on, because either the platform lost its way, or I needed different things. I've learned the painful way that you want data liberation.
- sjellis 6y agoYes, this is one of the reasons that I decided to use Joplin: it's Open Source and cross-platform. I never want my notes to be locked to one or two platforms.
- dredmorbius 6y agoWhat platforms & timeline, if you don't mind?
- groby_b 6y ago1982-1989 MS DOS 1988-1996 Unix - first SCO, then Linux (since '91) 1994-2006 Windows - mostly NT 2002-??? macOS 2011-??? Linux Yes, there's overlap, and yes, I'm currently considering Windows again :)
- dredmorbius 6y agoThanks. And yes, needs/utility vary. Any CPM, Classic Mac, or BeOS experience by chance? (Or others.)
- groby_b 6y agoA bit of CP/M. I'd say around 82-84? Way too much classic Mac. (Wrote a SCSI driver for System 6, still have nightmares ;). No BeOS, Amiga distracted me from that :) And plenty of others, just never as the main system.