I have checked OneNote but I found that it is not good for me. It has cluttered UI and TBH I don't have enjoyed handwriting on it.
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Indeed. Hardly state secrets. Your life though, boring or not. If you want that created into a profile for you, and then sold to the highest bidder who will then take that information, your information that is private, and use it back against you in the form of advertising, political manipulation, identity theft or whatever. Every link in the chain earns money from your boring life, except you. If you don’t mind, that’s up to you. I would just use one of the multitude of other note taking apps that do the exact same thing but do not read and retain every piece of information it can.
100% agree. I use OneNote for work but I could not adapt it for my personal lifestyle. Handwriting on it was just unpleasant to say the least. But I love its linking feature (work). lol.
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No I do not believe that. It was happening for years and years before anyone realised that it could even be happening in the first place. The fact that we’re now armed with the knowledge that it can happen but people still actively let it happen is even worse, worse still when it’s right there written in black and white.
So you use the internet regularly but you don’t think your entire life is pretty much documented out there? Even if someone you’ve given your data to (Apple for example) anonymises the data before selling it on, there are now enough separate datasets to render that anonymity meaningless.
Typing in your personal data to a notes app is what many people do, and most don’t realise that that data is being shared. It’s nowhere near the same thing as regular internet use. More like putting your diary/important private documents/list etc in the newspaper each day.
The fact of the matter is that if you tread carefully and if you minimise what data you freely give you will reduce the ability for these nefarious entities to gather such personal data. Don’t use Google search signed in to a Google browser for all your browsing. Don’t use email or messaging systems where your messages can be read. Don’t use an ai chatbot were your data is retained reused and can be accessed. Don’t put your life on social media to be havested. Dont use the same email address for everything and anything. Don’t write your thoughts or lists or personal details in a notes app which can be read by anyone but you or those you let read.
Anonymity is next to impossible unless you really know what you’re doing, but semi anonymity is achievable by being prudent. And certainly the sooner one realises and starts, the less one will be increasing what they already hold.
‘Giving up’, which is essentially what your post seems to suggest, is most certainly no option to consider. Some people have always been very prudent and will hardly have ever given any info. Some people suddenly realise what’s going on and make an effort to minimise what they give from that day on. Some people understand what they’re giving up and simply don’t care. Most people haven’t connected the dots and just don’t realise.
I don’t really care where random people on the internet fall in the scheme of things but I do like to point it out here and there in case one of the ‘most people’ are reading and suddenly get it.
I would dispute that it’s giving up, it’s pragmatic acceptance of reality. Even if you use a different email address for every single transaction with the internet, there is enough common information in all your transactions to build a full picture. Website 1 may have the day of the week you were born on and your postcode. Website 2 holds your postcode and first line of the address. Continue for several hundred websites and a decent scraper will know everything about you.
That is one aspect and it has very little to do with typing your thoughts and other private details in to what most assume to be privately held notes app on their phone. It’s multi faceted from the start, and whilst you’re correct, breaking up and compartmentalising every different aspect is a valid and working solution. Choosing applications and methods that don’t spy on you, or minimise spying is a great step to take and just because one may have previously given away data knowingly or not, doesn’t mean that one shouldn’t take steps to minimise that going forwards.