It’s quite rare for software to offer both a real local file format and also substantial cloud/SaaS behavior (ie other than syncing). Usually it’s one or the other—if the cloud has active behavior, apps are thin clients which don’t expose an accessible on-disk format (eg Notion).
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hmm.. could you use the opaque databases for the server-side, but just also have a simpler text-based format that's exported concurrently, which could also be streamed to local disk?
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Yes, the tricky bit is reincorporating external writes to the simpler text-based format.