Proprietary formats
A day spent copy pasting from Notes to Markdown
I spent most of Saturday morning at the library, transferring the almost 150 poems I had written around 2017 from Notes to Obsidian.
I like Notes. Back in 2017, there was no Obsidian, only Notes.
I, had no idea what Markdown was. I don't know if I knew at that time that Gruber created Markdown. I don't know if I was reading Gruber in 2017. Man, 2017 was so long ago!
Anyway.
Exporting anything out of Notes is a chore. You can export to PDF, and that's it.
PDF is not a great format for editing. These notes are after all just text.
Hence, my desire to move to Obsidian and Markdown. Anything important I write now is in Markdown and Obsidian.
I had paid for Scrivener back in the day, and because of the disdain I have for closed formats, I am looking at the Longford plugin to write longer content in Obsidian as well.
In Obsidian, everything is markdown files. Files that sit on my Mac. I can do anything with these files. No one else owns these files and my work, but me. And that is valuable to me.
Now, to create a collection from these poems.
