Data Exit Strategies

Latley I’ve noticed that I got a lot of data accumulated. In lots of formats and apps. Like documentation, tasks, ToDo, notes, documents and everything I’ve ever saved or written down. But I don’t have exit strategies for all of the various apps I use for all this stuff.

What the hell am I gonna do if one of these apps no longer gets developed or a vendor or product goes out of business. If I can’t get the data out, I’m screwed. I need to develop exit strategies for each of these cases and I need to know how to move on and migrate if I need to.

I’ve never thought about this. Do you have exit stragies for your stuff?

Atomic Habits

The approach of doing really tiny things everday works really well. If you do this over a longer period of time, you really start to feel and see how your small actions compound over the time. I started to implement these methods a couple of years ago and haven’t looked back. I can’t exactly tell if I have less to do now or if I just formed consistent habits, which don’t feel that stressful anymore. Either way it feels like I’m having my shit together all year long. What I noticed is that I really put systems in place for everything I do. Wether I do this consciously or if it’s just something that happens naturally, this quote from James Clear always comes to mind:

You don’t rise to the level of your goals, you fall to the level of your systems

James Clear