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Reminder to myself: My journal entries on my computer in Obsidian won‘t survive even a year after I die. My child probably won’t look into the thousands of file
by submeta 1y ago
Reminder to myself: My journal entries on my computer in Obsidian won‘t survive even a year after I die. My child probably won’t look into the thousands of files to find my journal entries. Whereas my paper diaries from 30years ago will be perfectly fine in a few decades from now.
- Aperocky 1y agoprint and staple it.
- drfuchs 1y agoBut will your grandchild be able to read handwriting?
- Retric 1y agoI’ve already used a computer to interpret old handwriting.
- e40 1y agoThis is why I use markdown. I figure that will be easily viewable for as long as the files are around.
- jjice 1y agoObsidian is all markdown. I assume OP was referring to no one keeping that data preserved post death.
- e40 1y agoI see. I'm not a user of Obsidian, but is it really obvious where the markdown files live? I use naked markdown and have a printed "read this first" that tells the locations of all the files (and where the backups are). I've tried to make it as simple as possible to find things.
- jjice 1y agoYeah it's actually one of the things I like most about Obsidian - your "vault" is literally just a directory. Everything is just a markdown file and it's just a normal directory structure and it's all exactly as you'd expect. I used to take my normal notes as plain text or markdown in a similar structure, so "moving" to Obsidian was just opening the directory. It doesn't show plain text by default, so you'll have to rename them to .md files, but other than that, you're up and running immediately. It's saved the exact same way on mobile as well. It's the most extensive note management software I've used that also doesn't remove the basics like letting me control the files myself.
- e40 1y agoSounds good. I just installed it and pointed it to my "howto/" directory (which has everything in regular markdown, with .md files). Normally I use emacs to edit my markdown, but I can definitely see some advantages to using this. Thanks!
- asciimov 1y agoAnd why I still use paper. Hard drives die, and I don't expect any one to be going through them when I'm gone. Paper on the other hand they at least will pick it up to throw away, likely flipping through it just to look for anything of monetary value.
- e40 1y agoI agree, so for that reason there are some things I print, but I do keep 2 local copies and 1 remote copy of all my files.
- eviks 1y ago"Publish or perish"