Plain text Markdown files outlive any application because they don't depend on vendor survival, proprietary APIs, or platform evolution. The decision framework ranks formats by control: Markdown over Notion or Evernote, local files over cloud-only services, open formats over proprietary ones. Following this principle means your vault can survive Obsidian, iCloud, and any future app—because the data isn't trapped inside any of them.
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