<story><title>LiquidText: A tool for academical note taking</title><url>https://www.liquidtext.net/liquidtextadeeperdive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tduberne</author><text>I am more and more reluctant to use any note taking app. Ideally, notes I take on  the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years. No app can offer that kind of guarantee. I switched to using plaintext files, and do not look back. The only thing one needs is to have a clear workflow to make sure notes remain accessible and useful. I like the Zettelkasten method for this (see eg &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zettelkasten.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zettelkasten.de&lt;/a&gt;, no affiliation).&lt;p&gt;Not to criticize this app in particular, I actually quite like the concepts listed (which remind me of the Zettelkasten idea). Just the whole idea of keeping my thoughts in an app. Even if it does allow to export the data, it is probably in a format that is difficult to use outside of the app, and thus close to useless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dmortin</author><text>&amp;gt; notes I take on the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years. No app can offer that kind of guarantee&lt;p&gt;Emacs + Org Mode&lt;p&gt;You can be sure Emacs will still be around in 20 years and Org Mode stores notes in text format.</text></comment>
<story><title>LiquidText: A tool for academical note taking</title><url>https://www.liquidtext.net/liquidtextadeeperdive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tduberne</author><text>I am more and more reluctant to use any note taking app. Ideally, notes I take on  the book I am reading today should still be available to me in 20 years. No app can offer that kind of guarantee. I switched to using plaintext files, and do not look back. The only thing one needs is to have a clear workflow to make sure notes remain accessible and useful. I like the Zettelkasten method for this (see eg &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zettelkasten.de&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;zettelkasten.de&lt;/a&gt;, no affiliation).&lt;p&gt;Not to criticize this app in particular, I actually quite like the concepts listed (which remind me of the Zettelkasten idea). Just the whole idea of keeping my thoughts in an app. Even if it does allow to export the data, it is probably in a format that is difficult to use outside of the app, and thus close to useless.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>notefuel</author><text>I think this is very common.&lt;p&gt;Genuine question: what, if anything, could a note-taking app do to assuage this fear?&lt;p&gt;e.g., is there something extreme that would help like giving you example notes to run through the export process during onboarding, or maybe even an automated export to an email every number of days so that if the app shuts down, even if you do nothing, you&amp;#x27;ll still have your data.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m asking because I recently launched an app in precisely this space (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.notefuel.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.notefuel.com&lt;/a&gt; - it&amp;#x27;s a note-taking app dedicated specifically to learning, kind of like Readwise.io meets Evernote), and I totally understand this worry, have it myself, and would invest in mitigating it.</text></comment>