Day One gives itself a "Premium" service

Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 4, 2017 at 03:33 PM

I forgot to mention a good thing about Alfons Schmid’s Notebooks is that all documents are store in plain site in the filesystem, inside an unencoded folder hierarchy in whatever format the document was when it imported or created—.docx, .pdf, .rtf, .html, .md and so on. There is absolutely NO data lock-in. I think this is a major pro in Notebooks favor. DEVONthink also stores docs in their native format.

After migrating all my Day One journals to Bear I realized it is no simple matter to get documents out of Bear that contain text and images. Bear knows nothing about .rtfd. The best bet is to export from Bear to .textbundle or .pdf.

I’m now very wary about apps that stick my data into SQLite databases—such as Day One. Fool me once ... etc.