Comment by tasuki
1 day ago
> The most commonly used PKMS or note-taking apps today are Notion, Obsidian, Evernote and Logseq. The problem is that PKMS come and go.
Uh oh. I wouldn't use those. Of course they come and go - they're made by companies.
> Could you see yourself using your note-taking app you use today in 30 years?
Yes of course. Otherwise I wouldn't be using it.
> Do you ever have concerns around the privacy of your notes?
Not really.
> Are you spending more time setting up your notes system rather than managing your notes?
No.
> What does an effective and timeless PKMS even look like?
I use VimWiki[0]. There's a possibility it will go away, but I doubt it. There's a possibility both vim and neovim will go away, but I doubt it.
It stores everything as Markdown files. Should Markdown ever go away, it's all still very readable plain text files. I use UTF-8. Perhaps that'll go away at some point?
I version everything with git, I doubt git will fully go away, but I'm ok migrating to a different VCS if need be.
I bet the longevity of my setup is way better than the longevity of a backend written in TypeScript, backed by a SQL database, running in Docker, based on a CMS I've never heard of (Directus).
As a fan of Vim, I'm a fan of this solution. Are you able to access them on your phone?
> Are you able to access them on your phone?
Yes, with caveats.
I actually publish my wiki on the web with about fourty lines of bash to transform the Markdown into a static HTML website[0]. So I can access it through the web browser. When people ask me for recipes or whatever, I can just give them a url.
I host one of my git remotes on GitHub (an extra backup, a service which is usually up and gives me a way to sync my notes should all my other devices be offline). I understand and admire that you didn't want to do that. Probably it's possible to install git on a phone and use a markdown editor? I don't particularly trust my phone tbh. Certainly not enough to put my git signing key on it!
[0]: https://github.com/tasuki/vitwiki/blob/master/build.sh
This is what I've switched to doing -- just pushing to my phone as a viewer; I realized that I don't write/think on my phone at all. It's just too annoying, but I do like having certain things (like recipes) on hand.