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How is the reliability of it? This professor had a data loss issue with the last version: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z135fbjhswilyzfui23tzvbqwynuf

How is the reliability of it? This professor had a data loss issue with the last version: https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z135fbjhswilyzfui23tzvbqwynufz5n2 https://plus.google.com/app/basic/stream/z135fbjhswilyzfui23... Owning software is much less important to me than keeping my creative works safe. I personally haven't used it in a few years. I do some writing in Google Docs, but have begun to do more writing in .txt file programs. They are lightweight and it's a format that will be around for a long time to come. Byword on OS X is just awesome btw. On Linux or Windows, Google Docs and plain text editors. On a Chromebook, Google Docs works pretty well. I do wish there was s prettier version of Docs just for writing text ala Byword.

beagle3 14y ago
> Owning software is much less important to me than keeping my creative works safe. I've lost so much time to MS Word version incompatibility issues, that I've stopped using it almost completely back in 1999. I've had to use Word occasionally at work, and had met some 2003<->2007 incompatibility issues as well. If you care about keeping your creative works safe, then relying on any software you can't reinstall at will -- even if it is 10 years from now -- is the wrong answer. Seems like MS office falls under that "wrong answer" definition. .txt, .html or latex files are the way to go. You'll be able to read them until the sun goes out (although perhaps the "blink" attribute won't be supported)
networked 14y ago
>How is the reliability of it? This professor had a data loss issue with the last version I have experienced data loss with LibreOffice 3.5 on Linux several times when trying to save a freshly typed document as .rtf. I "solved" the problem by saving a blank document first and then adding more data to it. Oddly, that "fix" has worked with numerous programs through the years. >keeping my creative works safe I use LyX [1] and TiddlyWiki [2] for that. Uncompressed text formats are far easier to deal with in the long run and allow for better recovery of incomplete data in the case of a storage medium failure. [1] A visual editor for LaTeX, see http://www.lyx.org/ http://www.lyx.org/. [2] A personal wiki, see http://tiddlywiki.com/ http://tiddlywiki.com/. Edit: expanded the post.

beagle3 14y ago

> Owning software is much less important to me than keeping my creative works safe. I've lost so much time to MS Word version incompatibility issues, that I've stopped using it almost completely back in 1999. I've had to use Word occasionally at work, and had met some 2003<->2007 incompatibility issues as well. If you care about keeping your creative works safe, then relying on any software you can't reinstall at will -- even if it is 10 years from now -- is the wrong answer. Seems like MS office falls under that "wrong answer" definition. .txt, .html or latex files are the way to go. You'll be able to read them until the sun goes out (although perhaps the "blink" attribute won't be supported)

networked 14y ago

>How is the reliability of it? This professor had a data loss issue with the last version I have experienced data loss with LibreOffice 3.5 on Linux several times when trying to save a freshly typed document as .rtf. I "solved" the problem by saving a blank document first and then adding more data to it. Oddly, that "fix" has worked with numerous programs through the years. >keeping my creative works safe I use LyX [1] and TiddlyWiki [2] for that. Uncompressed text formats are far easier to deal with in the long run and allow for better recovery of incomplete data in the case of a storage medium failure. [1] A visual editor for LaTeX, see http://www.lyx.org/ http://www.lyx.org/. [2] A personal wiki, see http://tiddlywiki.com/ http://tiddlywiki.com/. Edit: expanded the post.