Applications

Note-taking is one of those topics that appear to have been solved long ago, yet offer plenty of opportunity for new contestants. There are multiple reasons for that, but for me the number one is encryption. The major players, Microsoft OneNote, Evernote, and Google Keep, store your thoughts and ideas in plain text on any synchronized device as well as their cloud servers. In the age of hacks, leaks, and exploits it does not take much to conjure up scenarios where those thoughts become public knowledge all of a sudden.

I am an infrastructure guy (by heart - and a developer by nature). As such, topics like maintaining my own webserver (which I don’t - yet) or configuring backup deeply fascinate me. I am also mildly paranoid with regards to the safety and, especially as of late, the privacy of my data. That makes finding the perfect backup strategy a very interesting occupation, indeed.