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My approximate journey (7,500 notes, 13% markdown, remainder .txt)

(pc, circa 2010) notepad > Evernote > notepad > (mac) > vim > Notational Velocity > NVUltra (still in) beta > "The Archive" (Zettelkasten) > (n)vim

- notes synced with Dropbox folder (could just as well use iCloud) - with vim fzf/telescope plugins for search

What finally flipped me back to vim was using a setup script to give me a useful set of plugins that did nice markdown highlighting out of the box, and then working out how to do things like auto-indenting, opening URLs in browser, renaming files more easily etc.

Slight annoyance: yet to find a way to search both filenames and file contents at the same time

Do systems that link from one note to another help me? Apparently not much. Quite a lot of effort to maintain the links, better to express hierarchy in filenames.

(still using Omnifocus for todo lists, but it can import/export Taskpaper text format)