Crazy toolchain for journal: org-mode is forever

Posted by jaslar
Mar 17, 2021 at 07:06 PM

This is actually a serious issue in my profession (librarianship). You make backups of important business or research records on current media. Tapes. 8” disks! Floppies. CD-ROM. Portable hard drives. The problem is, every storage solution requires certain hardware and software to remain accessible, and you often don’t find out until you need it that the storage media itself has become corrupted. And as I say, often it turns out you will never need any of that again. Interesting to see what we curate across the generations…