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People who use apps like "Notion", are you not worried about lock-in due to complex files/data structures? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by njordomir@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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I like the idea of something like Notion but I have no idea how I would preserve my data or ever migrate it. I imagine you have to have some pretty complex stuff going on to have rich text, images, databases, macros and whatever else all in a file or notebook. Getting it out in some sort of format may not be too hard, but how would you ever migrate that to new software?

Am I over thinking this?

I know Obsidian stores everything in plaintext, but how would something like Notion or Affine (a self-hosted one) compare.

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[–] dwt@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I try to go for simple data Formats, not least, because I can later reuse these second brains from my locally hosted ai much easier.

Also because I do not want my second brain to be on the clutches of any cloud company.

[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

That's kind of what I'm figuring out. I don't want to put hundreds of hours into documenting and organizing my life so I can switch platforms and put in another hundred hours of migration effort. I'd rather use open formats from the start. That rules out some complexity, but I at least retain most of my freedom.

[–] dwt@feddit.org 1 points 14 hours ago

I really like markdown with possibly frontmatter for this reason.