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Personal journey: I used to be a heavy user of Evernote, but encountered a bug that the developers were not keen on fixing promptly. It was then that I realized
by vzaliva 3y ago
Personal journey: I used to be a heavy user of Evernote, but encountered a bug that the developers were not keen on fixing promptly. It was then that I realized the importance of personal notes surviving beyond companies, apps, and formats. Quickly after, I switched to a collection of plain text files using org-mode markdown and have been happy ever since.
- lb4r 3y agoI've been doing the same for the past few years, but have yet to figure out a good way to sync things between my devices. Not that it bothers me too much, but sometimes I'd like to have that convenience.
- vzaliva 3y agoI use dropbox to sync.
- lb4r 3y agoI've contemplated this, but in general I'm not a big fan of hosting personal files on the cloud if it can be avoided. Maybe if I use rclone and encrypt it...?
- pjerem 3y agoWhat about Syncthing ? It’s Dropbox like (you sync folders over different computers) but it’s totally P2P (so no cloud).
- f311a 3y agoI use cryptomator and store my notes on Github (encrypted)
- justsomehnguy 3y agoIf you are okay with rclone (and do have vps/server/whatever somewhere) then Syncthing is the thing to do that. https://docs.syncthing.net/ https://docs.syncthing.net/
- OriginalPenguin 3y agoGit? Syncthing?
- lb4r 3y agoI do use Git for source control-purposes, but this is the first time I hear of Syncthing. Would that allow for completely automated and frictionless syncing?
- ledauphin 3y agoit'll be very good. it won't resolve conflicts for you, though - just like Dropbox or Google Drive also wouldn't. It's last-write-wins, so you either need to keep your devices connected and syncing at all times, or you need to be careful when you edit the same files on different devices. I use Syncthing for all kinds of things and it's excellent, but it's not really a silver for bullet for mutable data like text files.
- lb4r 3y agoI'll look into it, thanks for the suggestion! The risk de-synchronization poses can probably be mitigated with automated local backups.
- BaseballPhysics 3y agoBTW, just a second vote for Syncthing, here. It's basically my "move data around" Swiss Army knife. Need to get my Keepass database on my phone? Syncthing. Need to back up my reMarkable to my NAS? Syncthing. Need to replicate game saves between my PC and my Steamdeck because the game doesn't support Steam Cloud Sync (I'm looking at you, Subnautica)? Syncthing. I run Paperless as a document management system and use Genius Scan on my phone. I use Syncthing to automatically move scans from my phone to the Paperless inbox folder. And none of that data resides on a third party cloud. Just encrypted, peer-to-peer sync. It really is fantastic.
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- mplanchard 3y agoI use Dropbox and symlink my notes to ~/org
- hu3 3y agoTry https://github.com/laurent22/joplin https://github.com/laurent22/joplin + cloud drive of your choice (I use One Drive). See my reply to your parent commenter.
- lb4r 3y agoThanks for the suggestion! By the looks of it, it seems to be a complete solution similar to Evernote, whereas I just need to figure out the 'syncing' part of things (I use Emacs for the rest).
- GivinStatic 3y agoI'm syncing between my devices with Resilio sync
- hu3 3y agoThat's why I use https://github.com/laurent22/joplin https://github.com/laurent22/joplin It's markdown, open-source, free. With desktop and mobile support. Syncs notes to any cloud of your choice for free. (I use One Drive) Optionaly you can pay them to sync your data on their cloud. So they even have a compelling business model!
- Zetobal 3y agoJoplin will be unusable until they give up on obfuscating the md files.
- hu3 3y agoSorry I don't understand. It allows to export to many formats, including markdown: https://i.imgur.com/dK6trmN.png https://i.imgur.com/dK6trmN.png
- BaseballPhysics 3y agoPersonally, I just use markdown text files+vimwiki on my laptop, along with Markor for Android, and Syncthing to get my notes where I need 'em, but in the end the principle is the same: Own Your Damn Data!
- benoliver999 3y agoYou just gave me an 'aha' moment here. I've been using the cli version of joplin basically as a text-file manager, but with a decent-ish mobile app. I've been struggling with keeping it updated etc and have been considering going back to just text files. I wasn't aware of markor and really like it, it seems to handle editing text files really well. Already use syncthing, so why bother with joplin at all?
- eviks 3y agoBut that's not a reliable sync mechanism without a server or a better format like CRDT:(
- anta40 3y ago
- NoMoreNicksLeft 3y agoI need to be able to sync my notes though, I use more than one device. I'd like for them to not be lost if a phone or laptop is stolen. Ideally, it'd just sync to webdav and I could use Nextcloud. But I've only ever found a few that did sync with it, and there were always all sorts of weird limitations or bugs in those.
- never_inline 3y agoI have a private github repo for this. I don't have a commit discipline for any of this, just using github for storing some MBs of plain text. Having a log maybe useful some day, though.
- Brajeshwar 3y agoA tad similar story with my experience. “Plain text is a powerful universal tool that is almost zero cost, work across platforms, are light enough to work remotely over poor connections, doesn’t go out of date, and is quick to learn.” https://brajeshwar.com/2022/plain-text/ https://brajeshwar.com/2022/plain-text/
- kunjank 3y agoDid you export the Evernote into plain text?