From: Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks>
Subject: Re: My First HDD Failure (I Think)
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On Wed, 27 Nov 2024 01:45:28 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:

> On 11/26/24 2:41 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
>> You may want to check out Obsidian:
>> 
>> https://obsidian.md/
> 
> 
> It reminds me of One Note, which incidentally caused the loss of a huge 
> chunk of my work and time some years back when newer versions of it 
> could not load the data of the older versions.. I never trust such 
> dangerous things again. I do my own organizing and create my own 
> structure for everything I store, of any kind.
>

The "dangerous thing" here is Micro$oft with its proprietary formats.

Obsidian uses only open formats.  From their web page:

"Obsidian uses open, non-proprietary files, so you're never locked in,
and can preserve your data for the long term."


Anyone who uses commercial software is assuming the great risk
of losing important data in the future.





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