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The Zettelkasten Method
Radiantflux00

Roam might be great for writing papers etc, but is it a long-term solution for note taking? Who owns your data? What happens when the company goes away?

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What makes a long term solution for notetaking for you? The founders have said the usual right things about people owning their own data and that they will only ever raise revenue by fee-for-service, not selling ads or data, but I don't know if there's anything legally binding to that. JSON export already exists, although it is only so useful when there's nothing to read it in. The thing I'm actually most concerned about right now is privacy; there are unfixed vulnerabilities if you share some but not all of your pages.
The Zettelkasten Method
Radiantflux10

I think Anki is great at learning specific facts, even quite complex ones—I have used it extensively to learn languages—but it doesn't offer any opportunities to link ideas together. It's basically an efficient method of taking facts—even complex facts like "what does this sentence mean?" or "what did people say in this short video clip?"—and putting them sufficiently into long-term memory that you can then use them in the real world. This final step is crucial as it allows these Anki facts to come ... (read more)

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