File over app
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If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...

I personally wouldn’t recommend obsidian (mentioned at the end of the article), but still, I think the article is worth reading.

  • @[email protected]English
    4•9 months ago

    Take it further. Convert all of your data into forward or simple formats. Don’t encode your images as gif, keep them raw. Store word docs as markdown. Don’t use proprietary formats (duh).

    Linux will be around for a long time, which is convenient. Everything is a file, that counts, right?

    Also be thankful for VMs and the push towards distroless containers.