After moving in and out of different things like workflowy, gdocs, dayone, notion, slack, discord, trello...I've been increasingly using just .txt and .csv files for the past half year or so.
Especially if it's just me working on my own, the benefits of any service aren't outweighed by the cost of later having to extricate myself from some startup's proprietary system.
@Mischa do you have a system? Todo.txt?
I have a few large files (e.g. "2019 journal.txt" or "todo.txt") with contents sorted by date.
And then I group everything else by project:
Projects
-- [20xx-xx-xx] [brief title]
---- notes.txt
I found that apps tend to want me to separate file types (go here for a list of todos, go there for notes, go elsewhere for storing images) and have lots of little files. Whereas I prefer to just use folders and organize by date and project.
@Mischa @neauoire @luka
This is amazing, I'm using the exact same thing for a few years now and I have not regretted even once.
I wrote a short article about it: https://crlf.site/log/notes/190827-1/
@croqaz @Mischa @neauoire these are all very interesting. I'm (and have always been) very attracted to filesystem-as-database and pure text as a clean interface to note taking journaling work documentation etc etc.
NextCloud now has very clean txt/MD editors which means you still work with txt files and they can be distributed on all your devices or accessed online. Even if the cloud dies, the files are accessible in the filesystem. Clean.