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by glenstein 1535 days ago
>Do NOT migrate to new tools

Completely agree here. For better or worse (well, definitely worse), I've noticed that some part of my brain that loves list-making and re-organizing. This leads me to an impulse to be in a never-ending process of migrating from one tool to another, wind at my back with a new motivated epiphany about how to re-organize everything.

Of course, when I say it out loud, it's nonsense, but moment to moment it doesn't feel like that's what I'm doing.

I really love the wiki-style organization but I don't want to depend on a tool with features stuck to that tool. I want something universal, like text.

Right now I'm using Simplenote and its killer linked notes feature, but I fear perhaps I've got a bit of lock-in there too. I at least believe in the ability to easily backup and migrate out of Simplenote, I think it's kinda portable.

But I really think simple principles, like search don't sort, may cut through the unnecessary complexity that my brain loves to produce and administer.

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If you want to stick with text, I can wholeheartedly recommend Obsidian. It's a bunch of Markdown files on disk and Obsidian does a great job of layering organization features on top of that. (I personally also pay for their Sync service, but you can sync to other devices using other cloud services — they're just Markdown files on disk, after all!)
Obsidian is awesome. Thanks.

I guess in truth I have a handful of "requirements" - text based, able to avoid lock-in, able to sync, and cross-platform availability. Looks like it checks all the boxes.