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Snapshots, not copies Afam Onyimadu realized that his external drive, his cloud sync folder, and his internal drive all held the same current version of every file, so deleting or overwriting one wiped all three at once, and he replaced the habit with restic, a free and open-source backup program he installed on Windows with scoop install restic, which stores timestamped snapshots you can restore from a chosen date and can verify its own integrity, and he is candid that it is a command-line tool with a real learning curve and that you have to test a restore on another device before you trust it.

Start with My Clippings Saikat Basu pulls the My Clippings.txt file off the Kindle, optionally strips the metadata in a text editor, uploads it to Gemini Notebook as a source, and then asks it for the themes running across books, a commonplace book for a writing project, and citations back to the original titles, and he names the catches: the notebook will sometimes force a connection between unrelated highlights, attributions need checking by hand, there is no Readwise-style daily reminder email, and adopting a generated summary verbatim is plagiarism waiting to happen.