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I agree. I spent quite a few years working in Digital Preservation, and what we found is that as evil as you paint them, a big corporation with lots of money will outlast an individual with pure motivations. That's why we can still read DOC files today.

Speaking realistically, investing your personal data in this project is currently a much greater risk than using Evernote.



> Speaking realistically, investing your personal data in this project is currently a much greater risk than using Evernote.

I fail to see any risk in investing your personal data in this project. According to the website you can simply output your data to a text file:

  - [..]
  - exporting all data as a human readable file
  - [..]
(I have no stake in this app, but personally use vimwiki and thus have all my notes in markdown text files anyway)


The app doesn't work without an active web connection -- it's just an empty shell. So if the website goes down, I've still lost my data unless I back it up in advance.


I'll bet that .txt files (which is what I currently use to store notes) will outlast .doc




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