Comment by submeta
2 days ago
Reminder to myself: My journal entries on my computer in Obsidian won‘t survive even a year after I die. My child probably won’t look into the thousands of files to find my journal entries. Whereas my paper diaries from 30years ago will be perfectly fine in a few decades from now.
This is why I use markdown. I figure that will be easily viewable for as long as the files are around.
Obsidian is all markdown. I assume OP was referring to no one keeping that data preserved post death.
I see. I'm not a user of Obsidian, but is it really obvious where the markdown files live? I use naked markdown and have a printed "read this first" that tells the locations of all the files (and where the backups are). I've tried to make it as simple as possible to find things.
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And why I still use paper. Hard drives die, and I don't expect any one to be going through them when I'm gone.
Paper on the other hand they at least will pick it up to throw away, likely flipping through it just to look for anything of monetary value.
I agree, so for that reason there are some things I print, but I do keep 2 local copies and 1 remote copy of all my files.
But will your grandchild be able to read handwriting?
I’ve already used a computer to interpret old handwriting.
print and staple it.
startup idea? upload an obsidian vault, receive a printed, bound notebook(s)
You can pretty much do this already by sending it to a Staples