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by ryanjshaw 901 days ago
GitHub is nice but starting about a year ago I have been asking myself "what if they lock me out of my account" for online services and there is no good answer.

Obsidian plus a data query plugin can do most of the stuff you've described but my data isn't at the mercy of a 3rd party, so that's what I go with.

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Yeah, I worry about that too. I have SO much of my stuff dependent on my GitHub account now.

I'm slightly reassured by how useful their APIs are. I have automated exports of a lot of my GitHub issues, though I really should shore those up and make sure I'm capturing everything.

That's one of the reasons I built https://github.com/dogsheep/github-to-sqlite