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My notes are #PlainText first, #Markdown second. They're highly portable between platforms, apps, and devices. #macos and #ios are my weapons of choice, but they'd look and work the same on #android and #Windows.
They aren't #Obsidian notes, or #Logseq / #iaWriter / #tangent / #TextEdit / #Nota / #AnyType / #Taio / #TaskPaper / #vsCode notes, though I can use any of those apps as a lens to view and work with them.
They're wild, and free. This is their theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYFk_EsZ_D8
@ellane I love this! While I always look for #FOSS solutions first, I ended up moving from a FOSS #PKM (#Joplin) to a non-FOSS PKM (#Obsidian) because I realized an open note format (#PlainText) was more important than the status of the editor.
I occasionally open and manipulate my notes in #VSCodium, #Neovim, and I'm interested in checking out #Logseq, but haven't made that jump yet.
I recently found some 30-year-old CD-Rs in a storage box that were still readable, and the plain text files brought back plenty of memories. I hope I'm around in another 30 years to dig through today's plaintext notes, whatever editor I may be using then.
@codelesscody I like your approach to FOSS. It’s preferable in many ways, but you’re right: file format is king.
That’s cool your CDs were still readable! I still regret not exporting my 30 year old files stored on floppy, Zip, and CD to text or PDF back when I had the chance. Ignorant me had no idea all that work would be inaccessible one day.
@ellane This is the way! Let the notes fly free!
@ellane That's intersting, thanks. For more than a year, I now keep my to-do list in the http://todotxt.org/ format. It's plain text, but with dedicated software (I use the FOSS tool sleek on Linux) you can have pretty neat and sophisticated lists with filters etc. But as it is plain text, you can view and edit your list with every text editor. I keep my tasks separate from my notes (I use Joplin).
@gisiger Todo.txt intrigues me. I’ve played with it often, but keep coming back to the TaskPaper syntax. It wouldn’t take long to switch over though, if I decided to give todo.txt another go.
I published a piece on the topic on my blog just a few hours ago, coincidentally. It talks about principles of changing methods, not todo.txt specifically.