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Irrational fear? Data loss
aarondesk | Aug 22 2007
I have this fear of data loss. I fear that someday the proprietary software I use will store my data/lists in some format that will be unreadable by future software. There's so many apps out there (Evernote, wikis, GTD software galore, etc.) that have proprietary formats but I hesitate to use any of them. I keep my lists for the most part in txt files that are backed up nightly. I'm fairly confident txt will be readable for the next 50 years. I keep a paper notebook for notes, but I don't maintain my NA lists in it because if I were to lose the notebook, that would be a catastrophe. Am I being irrational? Aaron 7 Comments
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 Well said. I suppose this...Submitted by Scottw on August 23, 2007 - 7:57am.
aarondesk;10113 wrote:
Well said. I suppose this goes to the heart of the matter. What am I missing out on by not using proprietary software? On the Mac, I use iGTD, I love it. It is a godsend for me. It integrates with just about everything and anything it seems. Your in Mail.app, click on the email, hit F6, and wham, you have a new entry in iGTD w/ a link to the email. On a website, same thing, it just works so well and provides export feature as well. ;) But, until you find the application that suits your needs it is easy NOT to adopt something other than something like a text file. » POSTED IN:
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