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raddleboy OP wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by !deleted31467 in How to maintain a large doc? by raddleboy

You seem like a friend on here /u/inthedustoftheplanet

Instead of clarifying myself further, i'll give you the problem.

The problem -

YOU have a personal diary/journal. You want to add pictures, videos and whatnot to it. But adding them would make your diary/journal unusable (bcz it would be insanely huge 100-200 gb atleast, by the time you die). You tried adding hyperlinks but they were useless when you inevitably changed your setup or moved or renamed the file. But you still want to add objects. how do you do it?

Rules -

Keep it offline

keep it as safe as possible

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moonlune wrote

Her methode is still the best way to do it and have workarounds to your problems.

(bcz it would be insanely huge 100-200 gb atleast, by the time you die)

the whole of wikipedia is 70 gb (20gb compressed). You've got time.

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raddleboy OP wrote (edited )

Okay... it took me a while to wrap my head around the replies i got to my query.

What i have figured out is that an offline wiki would be perfect; (right?). Something like foam, zettlr or obsidian. They would allow me to add whatever filetype or size i want without actually increasing the size of the .md file.

Just one thing... I didn't completely understand your answer completely,

Could you kindly ELI5? because all i can think right now is that i will have a .md file for 1 year i.e.,

<div>
**2021** *this_is_a_folder_in_a_markdown_app*

    |--- the_file_with_the_text.md
    
    |--- the_sub-folder_containing_attachments

--------------------------------------------------------------
**2022** *this_is_a_folder_in_a_markdown_app*

    |--- the_file_with_the_text.md

    |--- the_sub-folder_containing_attachments
</div>

Is this format reasonable or is a better setup possible? Any and all suggestions are earnestly welcome.

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