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This is why I use markdown. I figure that will be easily viewable for as long as the files are around.

Obsidian is all markdown. I assume OP was referring to no one keeping that data preserved post death.

I see. I'm not a user of Obsidian, but is it really obvious where the markdown files live? I use naked markdown and have a printed "read this first" that tells the locations of all the files (and where the backups are). I've tried to make it as simple as possible to find things.

Yeah it's actually one of the things I like most about Obsidian - your "vault" is literally just a directory. Everything is just a markdown file and it's just a normal directory structure and it's all exactly as you'd expect.

I used to take my normal notes as plain text or markdown in a similar structure, so "moving" to Obsidian was just opening the directory. It doesn't show plain text by default, so you'll have to rename them to .md files, but other than that, you're up and running immediately. It's saved the exact same way on mobile as well.

It's the most extensive note management software I've used that also doesn't remove the basics like letting me control the files myself.

Sounds good. I just installed it and pointed it to my "howto/" directory (which has everything in regular markdown, with .md files). Normally I use emacs to edit my markdown, but I can definitely see some advantages to using this. Thanks!

And why I still use paper. Hard drives die, and I don't expect any one to be going through them when I'm gone.

Paper on the other hand they at least will pick it up to throw away, likely flipping through it just to look for anything of monetary value.

I agree, so for that reason there are some things I print, but I do keep 2 local copies and 1 remote copy of all my files.

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