After having used The Archive for a year I was tired of the "prepper mentality" it and the usage of other apps stand for: to not rely on higher technology than plain text files with Markdown added. You have to weigh the risk of Notion going under against the benefits of being able to store data the ways they are offering. txt at all? Why not make them "pages" themselves?Ĭompany going under: You can export all your Notion content to Markdown files at any time. txt notes the question might be: Why keep the notes as.
See here for a couple of examples:Īs you see, the PDF can be either just stored in the "page" or even be embedded so you can read it right away. txt notes: Notion can easily store any file inside of a "page". All data is stored in the cloud in a database.Įxisting. Unable to find on website details about this.įormat of stored information: Proprietary. I looked on the webpage and was unable to find the format of stored information.txt is pretty important, since I have numerous notes in this format.Īlso, how hard is it to get one’s information out of notion in case the company goes under. Notion is subscription based, but it's cheap. Notion is subscription based, but it's said: And of course you can set up relationships between table entries, eg easily collect all counceling notes inside a client note. Needless to say: you can easily link from one document/entry to another. And yet each table entry still is also a document you can enter text into - or if you like also contains other tables. Structured means you can add meta-data as you like in addition to plain text.Įntries in tables means you can gather basically similar notes (eg all counceling notes) in a list you can view from different angles, eg according to category, client, date. It's working like any other file system or Wiki, if you want to.īut the beauty of Notion is, there is an alternative way: organize your "notes" (your content) as structured entries in tables. The reason I suggest you have a look at it is that Notion allows you to easily switch between "document thinking" and "list thinking".įile systems with their folder/document hierarchy are about, well, documents :-) You have to come up with one (or at least a primary) structure for your documents. I've switched my zettelkasten to it a while back and am moving more and more other stuff I need to keep track of to it. Dumb question-can a link in The Archive bring up a pdf or docx? Is the directory just one folder or a hierarchy? Since I deal with clients for counseling, I would need a way to bring all their relevant information up quickly so I am able review (quickly) before a session. I will consider this-I especially like the file id idea and connecting them with plain text notes, since the Archive is becoming the center of my workflow. But my way of dealing with PDFs might be worth considering.
That way I can reference them in my text notes the same way I do zk linking.Įmails and bookmarks I treat differently, as I use org-mode for these things (and I'm not going to suggest you use org-mode because it's less a piece of software and more a lifestyle choice). As an alternate perspective: I just keep my documents (mostly PDFs and docxs for the kind of work I do, also writing, but more fiction as well as articles) in a dedicated directory (which has the advantage of being synced by dropbox as well), but I name them with a zk-style UID, so like "201903211836-InterestingPaper.pdf".