how i lost my small personal time-tracking todo list, 22-Jan-2024

Super Productivity is an Electron app. With "hello world +qwe #greets
90m" and two toggles, backlog/day and top/bottom, i can create a new
task in project "qwerty" with a tag "greets" est. to 1h30m. I've been
on v. 21.0 as solely the mobile app.

One of the available options for "Sync" is LocalFile, a JSON file in
the filesystem. And I had some mess with my used-to-be-Syncthing
setup. The "Backup" feature seems wasn't generating anything, and the
"Import" needed for would-be file seems to have gotten removed.
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I used to have "Sync" set to a directory synced with Syncthing, then I
got it moved, then something happened with permissions, then I also
may have messed things up by having the file symlinked or moved when
fumbling with git-annex, occasionally prompting a dialog box declaring
error on saving/accessing or asking me to push state to empty
database.

Then today I had launched the app and it popping up a "Cannot access
database", to which I decided to restart the app, first by Recent apps
which had it back in exact same state and then by killing the app from
system settings. When it started again, the app ended up being devoid
of all my content.

There is also a Backup feature in the same section of Settings, which
is supposed to periodically save to app storage in case something goes
wrong. I've had it on. In none of the Android/* directories for the
app I found any files. Furthermore, the manual asked me to use the
files using Import functionality in the section, which was missing
from there at least in the mobile version of the app.

I've had thoughts about not letting meaningful information stay in
anywhere like that, wanting to lessen impact of such data loss in case
of such apps and of the paper notebook. But I wasn't yet fully
committed on that goal.

Now I'm recreating the todos from head I already relegated to the app,
this time in the paper notebook with a new concept for how to do it
more right.