Timeline for What is important when creating a set of research notes
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| Oct 23, 2023 at 5:14 | comment | added | J W | @Buffy, yep, use good quality paper, dark ink, and keep the paper away from sunlight, dust, moisture, etc. | |
| Oct 22, 2023 at 20:01 | comment | added | Buffy | @Mihail, yes, things like cloud storage and such are also at risk as you have no control on when things change or simply go away. Don't depend on others for such things. Google, for example, has obsoleted many things on short notice when it became economically infeasible to continue them. | |
| Oct 22, 2023 at 15:52 | comment | added | Mihail | @Buffy even backing it up (in my case, gmail) is risky. I moved to another country and lost access to my phone number and now google support ignores my pleas to restore account even though I know my password and have access to back up email. | |
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| Jan 26, 2023 at 3:10 | comment | added | Lodinn | @Buffy Even if old formats become obsolete, something like plain text or Markdown will remain readable. The issue is mostly with images/diagrams, those (in digital formats) do not survive the test of time particularly well. There likely still will be a way to read old image formats in a few decades. I have paper notes which survived just a couple of decades just fine and those that are hard to read after five years or so. And if you are going to make copies anyway, why not make them digital as well? | |
| Jan 26, 2023 at 0:02 | comment | added | Buffy | That's no proof against obsoleting hardware/softward/formats etc. | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 22:50 | comment | added | N A McMahon | @Buffy Assuming you're organised and don't move around too much. I suspect for me it would be better to distribute multiple copies on several computers/servers of mine with version control to help syncing (which is what I'm doing at the moment) | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 15:47 | comment | added | Buffy | Actually, if you want something to still be available in 20 or 30 years (as has happened to me) you probably want to use paper and pen for such things. Egyptian papyrus is still readable after several centuries. My old 3.5 inch disks, not so much. If you use technology, back it up and update the media every few years. Good paper lasts. | |
| Jan 25, 2023 at 13:08 | answer | added | Boba Fit | timeline score: 0 | |
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