[user00012-ab]

My problem with a lot of services listed below, is they all eventually go away, and all your data is off somewhere else. Unless you store your data locally in a human readable format (markdown) you are just putting all your data into a system that WILL go away at some point in the future.

Google has already had 2-3 services to manage your data that they have closed down. Maybe they are the ones that taught me not to trust your data with anything on the web.

Even something like Evernote is iffy, they seem like they are constantly on the verge of shutting down.

Although I do find it sad that that the human race as a whole puts so little value into this type of software, and so much value into sports and politics.

[lcall]

http://onemodel.org , described briefly elsewhere in this discussion page and more at that site, is self-hosted, which today means installing postgres and editing one config file, doing backups & upgrades (but I might be able to help some).

Maybe I could host for others sometime if there were sufficient interest. And/or move it to sqlite.

[capableweb]

Yeah, seems neither self-host (onemodel) or letting someone else (you or Evernote) is particularly attractive, because the chance of data loss is always there.

Is it possible there is a solution that makes the data more permanent and allows multiple parties to backup the same sources, or something similar? Some sort of federation protocol maybe.

[lcall]

Thanks. That is on the future roadmap (though I have been slow lately): selective sharing/copying/synch. I encourage anyone with possible interest to sign up for the announcements list at least, and maybe decide sometime to help. :)

[ramses0]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blosxom ... I got started in 2004 with that setup: http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/bloxsom-started.h...

...a bit contrarian compared to the WordPress and BlogSpot frenzy at the time, but I've been happy with it.

[rames@...:~/blog/entries]$ find . -type f | wc -l 331 [rames@...:~/blog/entries]$ find . -type f | xargs -n1 cat | wc -c 574481

It's been very stable over ~15 years, but I think it might be time to adopt SQLite, at least as a caching layer. ;-)

[nabnob]

Someone shared this on HN yesterday - https://labs.tomasino.org/gnu-recutils/

It's a set of unix-style tools that let you treat text files as databases.

[theshrike79]

This is what I've moved to: https://joplinapp.org

It's just plain markdown and syncs to any cloud provider or a webdav share. Butt-ugly especially on iOS, but it works and there is no vendor lock-in.

[Kiro]

Honestly, the risk of me losing my local data is much higher than a note service shutting down. It has happened countless of times and I'm just too sloppy with the backups. Purely personal of course but for me your argument is reversed.