Comment by gglitch

How do HNers keep a diary? I feel like I've done it all: pleb notebooks, fancy notebooks, private blog, public blog, apps (DayOne), Emacs modes, text files in a dir, photos, plaintext, markdown, html. Seems like everything comes with a compromise. I love the custom Emacs mode I made, but then it doesn't include photos and I can't easily do it with a phone. I loved DayOne, but then they forced a change on their storage policy, which reminded me of the stupidity of paying a business for a proprietary system. I've used Apple Notes, but then I wonder about getting the data out of Apple Notes. Pen/paper are great, but slow, and (comparatively) fragile (I know, I know, pen/paper will last a thousand years; but believe me, you don't want to drop your paper journal out of the canoe). Etc etc.