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Re:Everything Must Be Paid for Twice by tapland on Friday June 16, 2023 @04:46AM (#36353434)
That also goes for software (like notetaking apps or using a certain build system).

How easy is exporting the data you care about if you want or have to change platform? Not seldom it's so labor intensive you'll never migrate to something better.

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Re:Everything Must Be Paid for Twice by paradox242 on Friday June 16, 2023 @06:36AM (#36354330)
This is why I cannot use things like Evernote, OneNote, or the MacOS Notes app. I have first-hand experience of the latter two encountering corruption which was unrecoverable due to their proprietary data format. All three have pretty poor export choices (PDF? Really? What am I supposed to do with that?). I am at the point where I will never again use something that is not plain text files as they are and will likely remain the most portable format.

This is how I ended up discovering Obsidian and I have not looked back since.

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