mnmlist: store everything in text files
Gvim + Markdown + Dropbox = Ninja note-taking!
This is a repost of a fantastic article that Leo Babauta wrote a while ago.
I agree with him and I believe that storing your information in plain text is the best way to ensure that no matter what program, OS or platform you will use tomorrow, you’ll still be able to open and read your files.When it comes to technology, I strongly believe that simpler is better. We tend to take advantage of our increasingly powerful computing power by always increasing the complexity of our tasks and data — no longer is everything text-based (as the web used to be, way back when), but now everything is graphical and increasingly uses video. The result is a richer visual presentation, which is wonderful, but at the same time pages are slower to load, applications become bloated and freeze up, and information that could be presented simply and quickly is now presented via video, making us wait minutes just to get one or two key pieces of information. Complexity is bloated, slow, burdensome. Worse yet, our data is often tied up in proprietary formats, in databases that can get corrupt, in formats that don’t speak to other programs. Simplicity is fast, lean, light. Data in simple formats — such as text — is mobile, can be ported to any program, is not locked into a proprietary program or database. I’m moving more and more toward text files, after having been a fan of more complex formats and programs for a few years.
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