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On keeping your notes as your own files instead of rows in someone else’s database.

• Handing Your Own Notes Back to an AI
  How to stop re-explaining your background to an AI every time — three ways to hand over your own notes, and what makes a note easy for an AI to read.
  2026-09-26
• Finding That AI Answer Again Two Months Later
  Why you can't find an old answer in your ChatGPT history, and a three-step way to keep it so that future you actually finds it.
  2026-09-23
• Why ChatGPT Answers Paste With Asterisks (**) — And How to Save Them Cleanly
  Why AI answers show raw asterisks and hashes when you paste them, how the result changes depending on where you paste, and the cleanest way to save them.
  2026-09-20
• How to Remove Location Data From Photos — And How to Stop Doing It Manually
  How to check and strip the location data (EXIF) stored in your photos, and how to stop having to remember it every time you add a picture to a note.
  2026-09-18
• Syncing Obsidian for Free — Three Ways, and What Each One Costs You
  Three realistic ways to sync an Obsidian vault for free, the problems you actually hit with each, and the structural reason sync ends up being a paid feature.
  2026-09-15
• Before You Pick a Free Note-Taking App, Check These 3 Things (2026)
  Every free note-taking app recommendation list eventually leads you to switch again. Here are the three things to check first so you never have to migrate your notes.
  2026-09-12
• Writing Notes as Markdown in Google Drive
  How to keep your writing as .md files in your own Drive instead of rows in a note app's database — and what actually changes when you do.
  2026-09-12
• A Notes App With No Sign-Up — Why Ask You to Create an Account at All?
  Why a notes app with no sign-up is possible, what an extra account actually costs you, and where the no-account approach falls short.
  2026-09-12
• Note App Privacy: Check Where Your Notes Live Before You Check the Encryption
  The most important question in note app privacy isn't whether it's encrypted — it's where the original of your note is stored. Here are three ways to find out.
  2026-09-12
• How to Organize Notes: Stop Adding Tags, Fix Your Titles Instead
  Why tag-and-folder systems collapse every time, and how to organize notes with nothing but a good title — plus what has to be true for that to work.
  2026-09-12