Plain text, for me, after being burned multiple times. Occasionally, I'll fire up Word to paste in screen shots, but for most everything, I now write it out in

Plain text, for me, after being burned multiple times. Occasionally, I'll fire up Word to paste in screen shots, but for most everything, I now write it out in plain text in Notepad++. I felt burned when Microsoft's abandoned the Outlook Journal, where I had collected years of notes—notes that were almost all plain text. Microsoft came out with OneNote and I watch colleagues diligently recording their thoughts there, but not me. Plain text, from here out. I may eventually print them and put them in a binder, so I can have "papers" that survive me. The git solution intrigues me, but I would use my words and little else if I recorded notes there.