Notes on Fourth Migration

As mentioned in History of Notes Migration , what prompted this migration was Tiddlywiki’s inability to scale. See Tiddlywiki - Inability to scale . True to the Infinite buffet approach , I decided to see what is around and what all fits my [Note taking Apps - Criteria , what prompted this migration was Tiddlywiki’s inability to scale. See [[Tiddlywiki - Inability to scale]]. True to the [[Infinite buffet approach]], I decided to see what is around and what_all_fits_my_[[Note_taking_Apps_-_Criteria).

Every migration is painful. Every migration is also intended to be the last. So I tried to introduce little more resilience this time. Instead of choosing a single note taking application, I chose markdown with extra features that is supported by more than 1 application. These extra features include

• YAML frontmatter
• Wikilinks
• HTML parsing

These set of rules essentially opened up a large swathe of possibilities - from Foam, Vimwiki(markdown), Obsidian, Logseq, Notability, Joplin, Vnote, Qownnotes…

After a rapid round of whittling down, I essentially brought it down to Obsidian and Foam. I use Obsidian as my daily driver, but I use it in conjunction with foam to ensure that if Obsidian goes caput, I can switch in an instant.