I started trying to use Joplin and couldnt get over it using a database rather than raw .md files. Once I’d added a bevy of plugins the UI really didnt seem to be handling thinhgs well.
I considered VS Code ± Foam and found myself doing a lot of the work baked into Hopping/Obsidian myself, and could see coming a less rich plugin ecosystem once I was done.
Quite happily using Obsidian now and managing my files myself. Glad I can just get on with de-OneNoting now.
Seeing privacy & security taken seriously offsets the lack of OSS for me.
I guess that’s one of the biggest strengths of Obsidian that it does not use a closed format for notes, just plain markdown. Which you can all just see by looking in your folder. Plus makes it easier to run scripts on it
They’ve already heard all the reasons people think they should and you’re unlikely to come up with anything new that would make them change their minds, so your best options are to either make your peace with it or find an open source alternative.
Thanks for the reply. I’ve found my own workflow using open source alternatives, but I used to use Obsidian too, a while back. I find myself looking back wistfully at all the things I loved about it, the QoL differences that I can’t justify switching over for.
I use logseq for the most part - I have multiple graphs for each domain I’m interested in. I’ve learned with time the way that I should structure my graphs to make the most sense, the best ways to actually use the stuff that logseq offers and stuff. And it didn’t take that long either, I’ve only done this for the last couple months. It’s open source and passes under enough eyes for me to be comfortable with it.
I miss some things though - Adding in multiple files (like PDFs or images or audio) is still a pain.
The user discussion forum is where my dreams go to die (devs are a bit conservative in considering new features). - The UI looks like it was made by a Soviet survivor of a nuclear armaggedon (Utilitarian to the point of blandness).
A whole bunch of the plugins come out of china (Or atleast chinese sounding usernames) (I hope that’s not racist), I assume because it has a large userbase there; and I don’t really vibe with that.
It has relatively fewer plugins than obsidian does.
That’s pretty much everything I can think about off the top of my head. Sorry for the wall of text.
Money is probably also a factor. They need to make money out of it. Although it seems that they are not super anal about it like some big companies. When someone kind of reverse engineered sync kepano just said cool, just don’t call it sync. Very chill
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