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I actually found that using special directory for notes and git and grep is actually convenient. The only thing I'm missing is fuzzy search features of grep, like build on word2vec models.

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Funnily enough, Edsu and git's data stores are very similar in that they're both Merkle trees. It means that they both have similar benefits of trivial checkpointing, automatically deduplicating revision histories, etc.

So if you squint enough, Edsu is kind of an "APIized" version of your setup :) So in addition to text files, it can also be structured application data.

Can we call this the Dropbox syndrome where people boasts they have a better solution with combination of cli tools instead of a service?

That seems a very uncharitable reading of your parent post.

Only if we can say that SaaS obsessives have Cloud Syndrome

That is an interesting Hacker News type of phenomenon, but I personally enjoy reading the alternative solutions to a presented problem.

And sometimes it turns out that the SASS product is simply a wrapper around a cli tool... for example the product [1] Mole, which is a wrapper around ssh to make it easier... but not really necessary...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18236125

I prefer the 'combo of CLI tools' to a service where ever possible because those solutions are almost always simpler, easier to understand, portable, and easier to maintain.

If you are privacy focused it is a better solution.

fzf can probably help you with fuzzy searching.

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