The title of this blog post strikes a chord although whilst I love writing with a fountain pen, transcribing my notes to computer later is a royal pain. It's a

The title of this blog post strikes a chord although whilst I love writing with a fountain pen, transcribing my notes to computer later is a royal pain. It's also irritating to have bunches of notes in Apple's Notes app, in Confluence, in Notion, in Google Docs and goodness knows where else. The movement to cloud has driven a coach and horses through the whole reasoning behind the EU/US push to get Microsoft to be more open and not hold institutions to ransom with data locked within a proprietary vendor's platform: https://www.infoworld.com/article/2618153/how-microsoft-was-forced-to-open-office.html https://www.infoworld.com/article/2618153/how-microsoft-was-... Now we've gone full tilt towards a world of proprietary clouds where we don't even have custody of our own data and instead entrust it to a MongoDB cluster somewhere managed by the latest hot, new note taking startup. Where are the regulators when you need them to ensure we can get our data in and out of these platforms? As for me, I find vim or Sublime and Markdown synced via Dropbox work tolerably well. I keep toying with the idea of writing an open source Markdown syncing solution with open source clients for note taking... That aside the proprietary nature of the cloud and especially how it pertains to note taking (and todo apps) is a real step backwards. The regulators who forced Microsoft to submit in the past would be gnashing their teeth at the situation we have today.