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A personal journal is a personal thing. If I record my thoughts in this for say 4 years straight and suddenly in the 5th year the company goes down, How do I recover my valuable memories? (Personal journals are more precious to me than photos)

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There is an export facility (link on the "past" page) that you could use for backups.

This is pretty neat - exports as .txt files and even the filenames are named as "ohlife_20100818" (ohlife_YearMonthDay)

Thoughtfully designed.

I'd also point that this is email-based, so aren't you automatically saving a copy? You can just search on OhLife's email address to pull up everything you sent, and there are your valuable memories.

(You want them as a bunch of plain text files? Well, hopefully you are using a nice email provider who gives you POP or IMAP access, like Gmail. Download them, grep, and Bob's your uncle.)

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