It’s often easier said than done, but the more you can make your operating system irrelevant, the better.
This came up while I was listening to a recent episode of the Cortex podcast, and the hosts were lamenting a problem in getting something to work between a Mac and a Windows machine. Their system relied heavily on iCloud, so they just couldn’t get it to work. While iCloud can be great, this is why I suggest you avoid it (to the extent possible) in lieu of something like Google Drive or Dropbox.
On any given day, I’ll do some work for GreenMellen on my Windows desktop, a Chromebook, and perhaps my iPad or my Android phone, and it all works smoothly. Granted, I can usually be much more productive on a desktop computer rather than my phone, but there is no proprietary software that is limiting me.
If you look at my updated list of tools that I use, they’re all cross-platform. Even those that are desktop programs instead of web apps (like Obsidian) are ones that have great syncing tools so that I can use them from anywhere.
Windows has some decent native tools, and Apple devices have even more, but I encourage you to be forward-thinking with the tools that you use so that if you need to work with someone on a different system there aren’t strange issues to be dealt with.
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