[kwlug-disc] Documenting your digital life

[John Van Ostrand]

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM Doug Moen <doug at moens.org> wrote:

> I use plain ASCII text files and vi. The oldest notes currently accessible
> date to the 1990's, and the file format somehow hasn't been deprecated.
> More recently, I've upgraded to UTF-8 text files and vim, and there was
> zero drama or backward compatibility problems in the upgrade.
>

I have almost 900 wiki pages going back to the early 2000s, before that I
used OpenOffice files which were converted. Do you want to know how to work
with SCO Unix or use UUCP? It's there if I ever have to do that again.

I've certainly spent time upgrading Twiki, migrating files from one server
to another and eventually upgrading to Dokuwiki. Everything is text files
under the cover and can be viewed with vi, it just has markup (e.g. a
heading might be ---+ Heading.) Migrating to Dokuwiki involved a script
that replaced Twiki markup with Dokuwiki markup. So it's still easily
readable using vi.

Yup, there's work involved, but also benefits.

-- 
John Van Ostrand
At large on sabbatical
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