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  1. Comment on Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff in ~tech

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    While I understand the benefit to keeping your notes in a structured folder of markdown files, it's worth noting (for someone who may casually read this) that Joplin does have one-click "export...

    While I understand the benefit to keeping your notes in a structured folder of markdown files, it's worth noting (for someone who may casually read this) that Joplin does have one-click "export every note to markdown." It's easy to read this and get the impression that Joplin notes are somehow locked away from the user.

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  2. Comment on Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff in ~tech

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    Arguably yes. The developers can make unpopular decisions about the future direction of the software, or decide to stop working on it entirely, leaving users with limited options for continuing to...

    Arguably yes. The developers can make unpopular decisions about the future direction of the software, or decide to stop working on it entirely, leaving users with limited options for continuing to use the software. (How limited the options are depend a lot on specifics of the software itself.) Being open source means that someone else can, at least theoretically, pick up the software and continue developing it.

    (edit: I should point out that I'm speaking above about closed vs. open source software in general... and from what I've learned in this thread, if Obsidian vanished today, users who are at least a bit technical would be in a pretty decent position re: the content of their notes.)

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    I don't know that this was their intent, but "no tools" would allow for casually swapping to a second battery, mid-day, while out and about.

    I don't know that this was their intent, but "no tools" would allow for casually swapping to a second battery, mid-day, while out and about.

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