[abrax3141]

I find all online note taking to be useless because you can’t efficiently and effectively draw on any existing platform with anything like the convenience of p&p. Also, why aren’t you all just using gDocs, like everyone else? Self hosting your personal notes seems like you’re putting your precious brain dumps one drive failure away from disaster.

[corobo]

My notes are text files. Markdown to be precise. Theoretically I could add an images folder no problem, though I've not needed to yet. I store them in a git repo and they're also a part of my normal backup process.

I'd need my PC and 3 NAS drives (all different vendors/batches) to fail AND Backblaze and GitHub would need to both break before I worry about losing my notes.

I doubt I'd be able to lose them if I tried honestly. There'll be a copy on my laptop too now I'm thinking about it.

As for why? Because I can build my own systems no bother. I also like to have many ways of adding to my notes such as via phone, via command line, via the share menu in iOS, via web browser (github.dev), via Siri if I really wanted to.

Wrapping all this up into a nice working system took the better part of a few hours and I don't have to worry about anything being discontinued. Text files will probably still be usable 100 years from now, which is plenty for what I need.

E: Oh yeah there's another copy of the repo on both my phone and my iPad haha. Both autosync using iOS Shortcuts whenever I write a note on that device.

[triyambakam]

> putting your precious brain dumps one drive failure away from disaster.

The likelihood of Google locking you out of your account seems higher than your own drive failing.

[abrax3141]

Really? Why would google lock you out of your account unless you’re not who you claim to be? I mean, maybe temporarily, but that’s just more evidence of them being super secure.

[triyambakam]

There are stories posted here a few times a year about Google disabling someone's account for reasons that Google feels it doesn't need to make clear.

[jrm4]

Syncthing or some other backup system.

Using Google for this strikes me as much riskier, as well as just creepier.

[dvzk]

Google Docs isn’t a backup service. If ransomware or a child (or Google) deletes your synchronized documents, and you don’t have an offline or remote append-only copy, then you didn’t do enough disaster mitigation.