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Re: The Plain Text Project

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Post by smichael »

jchook wrote: post #75
nlh wrote: post #30

While we’re on the subject, I just moved my whole financial life over to hledger ( https://hledger.org/ ) and oh my goodness I’m so much happier (I dumped both QuickBooks and Quicken, which I’d been using previously). It won’t be for everyone, but if you know a bit about what you’re doing with double-entry accounting, it’s so so so much better. I only wish I’d discovered this was of doing things years ago (before dum…

Do you have many automations or integrations in-place, or links to resources that helped you get beyond manual entry?

Not the OP, but: https://plaintextaccounting.org/#data-importconversion, https://hledger.org/about-real-world-setup-docs.html, #plaintextaccounting and the project IRC channels may have something helpful.

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Post by didericis »

JenrHywy wrote: post #126
didericis wrote: post #80

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Ditto. I use working copy for accessing a git repo where I keep notes on my phone. It’s a great little app. The only downside is I sometimes forget to commit and push, then expect docs to magically show up on my Desktop. I also wish it were a bit easier to add templates. I’ve been building a markdown interpreter on top of that repo to parse some of the more structured parts of my journal into little graphs and things…

For mobile, I just use the `pass` Android app. It's very simple as an editor, but has build-in git support. My biggest issue has been forgetting to push and then creating merge conflicts, which don't work well on encrypted files. I use markdown formatting for everything, so it's easy enough to export if I want to. For my diary I've written a script that decrypts the files (one per day), concatenates them, builds and…

What are you using to encrypt/decrypt files?

Re: The Plain Text Project

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Post by gregoryl »

daveslash wrote: post #200
keithnz wrote: post #196

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out of interest, why do you think it'd be hard? It's what I did, just swapped over at work. Nearly everyone else is still using visual studio. It mostly is a zero friction change and you can swap back and forward between environments at any stage

Because I work in a highly regulated industry. We have to qualify/verify/validate everything that we use, and we all have to be standardized on the same thing. I'm currently struggling to get unit tests working smoothly -- we have to validate the "plugin" that we use to execute the unit tests (MSTest... part of Visual Studio), which means that we need to write requirements and then test those requirements. We're writ…

That sounds incredibly painful, I admire your tenacity.

Re: The Plain Text Project

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Post by bellweather49 »

WalterBright wrote: post #71

I used to store bookmarks in the browser. But they wouldn't survive changing the browser, upgrading the browser, reinstalling the operating system, or moving to another device. Besides, I didn't really want to share my bookmarks with the browser vendor, every browser app vendor, and random web sites. Now I just store them in a .txt file. My text editor recognizes URLs and I can just click on them. Matching { } is als…

> Matching { } is also supported, which is all one needs for a tree-style database.

Could you elaborate on this; maybe give an example?

Re: The Plain Text Project

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Post by JenrHywy »

didericis wrote: post #202
JenrHywy wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For mobile, I just use the `pass` Android app. It's very simple as an editor, but has build-in git support. My biggest issue has been forgetting to push and then creating merge conflicts, which don't work well on encrypted files. I use markdown formatting for everything, so it's easy enough to export if I want to. For my diary I've written a script that decrypts the files (one per day), concatenates them, builds and…

What are you using to encrypt/decrypt files?

In the script? the node-gpg package.

Re: The Plain Text Project

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Post by tubbs »

mobitar wrote: post #50
philips wrote: post #13

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I tried to love standard notes but I had several times where note contents were overwritten or missing between machines. I looked at the API for syncing and it did not give me confidence. Using pass + git now. Works great.

Do you recall when this was? This kind of feedback is highly unusual for us. Most users love SN precisely for its reliable sync. Our syncing engine underwent large-scale changes in June/July of this year to solve an edge case with opening out-of-date clients. If you experienced any issues after this date with updated clients, I'd be very surprised, but would love to hear more if you can spare a moment. The only other…

Out of curiosity - which Firefox browser extensions? I typically have SN open on my work PC in a Firefox pinned tab, and at home in a pin tabbed, and then on and off on mobile. I've never lost any data, but sometimes I'll have to refresh the tab for the right hand pane to load when just opening Firefox.

Re: The Plain Text Project

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Post by didericis »

JenrHywy wrote: post #205
didericis wrote: post #202

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What are you using to encrypt/decrypt files?

In the script? the node-gpg package.

Was more curious about whether the pass app for android supports GPG, or whether you tend to edit outside and then paste stuff into it when you want to encrypt documents.

That's the main thing I'm lacking with my setup. I normally use git crypt when I need to encrypt something in a git repo, but I can't access files I encrypt with git-crypt via working copy.

Re: The Plain Text Project

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Post by frankish »

ajvs wrote: post #46
Emendo wrote: post #44

Plain text is great when I am on my laptop, but not as well as soon as I want to, for example, check or update my todo list on OneDrive/Google Drive on my phone or on my work computer. I have found myself moving back into proprietary formats like docx and xlsx because of the above. All I want is a folder full of markdown files (and other files that need to stay in their original format), but I not could find a way to…

Markor works well on Android.

Thank you for this recommendation. Joplin didn't allow me to manage the files manually, but this gives me far more control. As a bonus, it supports todo.txt, which I was already using. Paired with Dropsync, this is my find of the month.
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