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Will these notes be readable decades from now, in your lifetime?
by aborsy 3y ago
Will these notes be readable decades from now, in your lifetime?
- madamelic 3y agoNot the person you are replying to but I have the same general setup. Digital: Almost certainly. I back the notes up. Physical: Almost certainly not. My day to day minutia notes are essentially ephemeral. They aren't about committing a practice to long-term but 'monkey-barring' between days or the week. If it is something I want long-term, I write it into my digital notes. I also desire digitizing them but for the reason of extracting what I did that day and do analysis / using it to keep a digital TODO list up to date. No interest in having them be searchable.
- aborsy 3y agoI’m not familiar with the format used by Obsidian. It’s probably not text files to be opened by any editor.
- madamelic 3y agoGot curious as well (I use Roam which exports in Markdown and JSON). The files locally are in Markdown but that may be a consequence of importing it from Roam. Obsidian doesn't seem to have a native exporter as far as I can tell so you have to use a community plugin exporter. As you have hinted at, yes, the exports from Roam and Obsidian generally lose your graph so you only get the plain-text.
- tionis 3y agoIt's just markdown files. I use obsidian with vimwiki for quick notes in hierarchical markdow file structure, using git for sync.
- vunderba 3y agoObsidian works on locally stored markdown files in any directories structure you use, so you can bring them into anything from VS code, to Joplin, to typora. It's one of the main reasons that I swapped from Evernote - zero vendor lock-in and plain text format.