💭 File over app — Steph Ango
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!https://stephango.com/file-over-app

Date: January 5, 2026

File over app
 If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you...
 Steph Ango · stephango.com [1]

file over app is a fantastic philosophy laid out well and concisely documented very well in this post. The idea is that tools will change, we will want to use different tools, different editors, different computers over time. What's likely to outlast everything is plain text files that we can interact with a wide variety of tools. Not encrypted in dedicated formats that die with our tools, but in plain text where a computer from 2160 is likey as capable of reading the file as one from 1960 would be.

!!! note

 This post is a thought [2]. It's a short note that I make
 about someone else's content online #thoughts [3]

References:
[1]: https://stephango.com/file-over-app
[2]: /thoughts/
[3]: /tags/thoughts/