[kwlug-disc] Documenting your digital life

[Steve Izma]

On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 04:09:52PM -0400, Doug Moen wrote:
> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Documenting your digital life
> 
> 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.

Yes, I too am surprised that plain text files have not yet been
deprecated or even banned -- although the people who program
social media apps these days probably think that text files are
as useless as pencil and paper.

I have a history with text files and vi similar to Doug's. And on
several occasions I have found it useful and easy to convert them
to Wiki files.

	-- Steve

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