Nothing new here, and that is the recommendation. Formats that survive are formats that anybody can open with a tool they already have, and plain text has now outlived several generations of better ideas.
#archives
Useful for the mechanics rather than the romance: how headings were chosen, why the index mattered more than the entries, and how little of it was ever meant to be read straight through.
A plain account of how quickly the record dissolves. Worth the road for one idea: the web does not decay evenly, and the parts that vanish first are the parts nobody was paid to keep.
a seed№ 021
Every catalogue is an argument about what matters, pretending to be a list.
Unfashionable and correct. Every layer you add between the text and the reader is a layer that has to survive twenty years of nobody maintaining it.
a seed№ 014
Arguments about tools are forgotten in a year. The files made with them are still here in ten. Optimise for the files.
a quotation№ 010
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Good on formats, thin on habits. The hard part was never the file format; it is remembering to look at the archive often enough to notice when it breaks.