Evernote part 2?
A simple email draft would have been millions of times better. I don't take many chances on new notes apps now. I'm "sure" Roam won't delete my notes...until it does.
Gmail drafts as notes for life. Offline, syncing, multi-platform, extremely unlikely to shut down. Easy social integration (fill in to: field and tap Send). Got everything I personally want.
I'm also coding my own take on a new notes app......so we'll see.
I can understand the desire to use caution , but “I don’t take many chances on new note apps now” as a result of that rare bug from ONE vendor seems extreme and unnecessary.
suggests that notes apps unexpectedly deleting notes is a major concern for users on both platforms (iOS and Android).
Perhaps my reaction is extreme, but I haven't lost a note since or worried anxiously about that issue with a new app. I get that gmail drafts isn't for everyone, but this type of destructive bug isn't rare at all. It seems to be very common.
And the platform I trust to not cause that bug is gmail drafts. Maybe one day I'll be in for a rude surprise but so far I have been very happy.
Not the original commenter, but I have never had Google lose any of my data ever.
In Gmail, my drafts are saved locally and also synced. It's never failed, I've never lost even a single character of something I was typing.
And I too am in the boat of "bitten once, never again" when it comes to sync and data loss. If it happens once with something insignificant, it could happen to my thesis or book or whatever. My tolerance for data loss is like 0.000001%. Nothing is perfect. But if I ever experience it personally myself, something that ought to be less likely than being hit by lightning... then statistically, it's much more likely that the service is extremely risky to use, than that I got unlucky.