A set of index cards works pretty well. An excel file on a USB stick is pretty good for most people. Even better if you can use an encrypted volume -- simple on macos and painful elsewhere.
The usual trade-off is ease of access -- on the cloud you can get it anywhere. But it isn't encrypted, it's accessed via an API, and you're dependent on someone not fucking that up.
This software can run offline, which is good, but the monetisation is via the cloud, which is bad.
Too bad portable software is such a shitshow. Everyone has these enormous runtime engines and there is no way to be confident in anything they run hasn't been updated the siphon off everything to a random cloud instance. It's architected to trust the cloud rather than devices we can physically control.
The usual trade-off is ease of access -- on the cloud you can get it anywhere. But it isn't encrypted, it's accessed via an API, and you're dependent on someone not fucking that up.
This software can run offline, which is good, but the monetisation is via the cloud, which is bad.
Too bad portable software is such a shitshow. Everyone has these enormous runtime engines and there is no way to be confident in anything they run hasn't been updated the siphon off everything to a random cloud instance. It's architected to trust the cloud rather than devices we can physically control.