Here's
an idea: instead of dealing with lots of different programs, formats
and files, why not keep all of your data – contact info, calendar, the
draft of your dissertation – in one mammoth text file? That's what
O'Reilly's Giles Turnbull
is doing, and it actually doesn't seem like that crazy an idea,
especially if you work on multiple machines. You only have to worry
about syncing one file, your data is platform-independent, and you can
easily pinpoint the info you need using anything from grep to
Spotlight. Of course, this one file won't include your email,
bookmarks, spreadsheets, photos, music or any other files that depend
on specific software. But for the rest of your stuff, why not shove it
all into one big file and let grep sort it out?
Tags: text+file, TextFile
