What I’m learning, taught back in plain terms.
This is the section where I work through security and technical topics by writing the guide I wish I’d had — password managers, ransomware and social engineering, stripping metadata off photos, automating file cleanup, mounting drives on Linux. Tested first, then written.
I lean on structured learning — the PARA method for taming information, MOOCs used as a force multiplier rather than a replacement for real practice. What lands here is what survived actually doing it, including the parts that tripped me up.
Part 2: How I moved the rest of my 41,000 notes from CherryTree to a self-hosted Joplin Server in five batches, caught a silent import bug that dropped 88 pictures, froze the originals, and decided which private notes to keep out.
Part 1: CherryTree has no tablet app, so I moved 46,000 notes to Joplin with my own sync server at home. Here’s how I planned it, converted everything, proved nothing was lost, and got my tablets syncing, plus the pitfalls that cost me the most time.
For years I wrote every course note, certification study guide and project log in CherryTree, a free note-taking app for desktop computers. By this year it held about 46,000 pages. Then I bought a tablet to study from, and hit a wall: CherryTree has no app for iPad or Android. My notes were stuck on one computer. So I moved everything to Joplin, a free notes app that works on computers, phones and tablets.
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Life is the ultimate university. Just when we think we’re done with school after receiving that official diploma or certificate, whether from a traditional brick-and-mortar