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by derekzhouzhen 1683 days ago
The problem of note taking app is that notes by definition should live very long time, like > 10 years. How do you ensure your users that their data will be still there and in a usable form after 10 years?
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Good point. Honestly I haven't thought that far, but taking into account that all data is bound to one message, it can be moulded in any way later on without losing it.

Speaking about longevity of the physical drives. I'm using external servers such as AWS, so in the case that something goes wrong with them I would imagine half of the world would have a bit bigger problems at that point.

Thanks for the question!

My point is a good export/import (to a well understood file format that can be used elsewhere) functionality is vital for this kind of application.