Tired of note-taking apps

Re:Tired of note-taking apps by groby_b on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:14PM (#23892486)

There is a non-zero chance you won't always be on the same platform. That doesn't mean you shouldn't use the best app for your platform, but it's worth to think about how you migrate data out when that day comes.

I've spent roughly a decade or so on each platform I've been on, and then moved on, because either the platform lost its way, or I needed different things. I've learned the painful way that you want data liberation.

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Re:Tired of note-taking apps by sjellis on Sunday July 19, 2020 @05:34PM (#23892628)

Yes, this is one of the reasons that I decided to use Joplin: it's Open Source and cross-platform. I never want my notes to be locked to one or two platforms.

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Re:Tired of note-taking apps by dredmorbius on Sunday July 19, 2020 @09:14PM (#23893808)

What platforms & timeline, if you don't mind?

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Re:Tired of note-taking apps by groby_b on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @05:58PM (#23911432)

1982-1989 MS DOS 1988-1996 Unix - first SCO, then Linux (since '91) 1994-2006 Windows - mostly NT 2002-??? macOS 2011-??? Linux

Yes, there's overlap, and yes, I'm currently considering Windows again :)

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Re:Tired of note-taking apps by dredmorbius on Tuesday July 21, 2020 @07:33PM (#23912082)

Thanks.

And yes, needs/utility vary.

Any CPM, Classic Mac, or BeOS experience by chance? (Or others.)

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Re:Tired of note-taking apps by groby_b on Wednesday July 22, 2020 @03:23PM (#23920589)

A bit of CP/M. I'd say around 82-84? Way too much classic Mac. (Wrote a SCSI driver for System 6, still have nightmares ;). No BeOS, Amiga distracted me from that :)

And plenty of others, just never as the main system.

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