[kwlug-disc] KWLUG collective's opinion on obsidian.md

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

Hi everyone,

I have heard of Obsidian before and I did a little more reading, when 
this thread came up. For my own thinking, and anyone else's interest I am

> Obsidian is not open source, a deal breaker for some of us. But at least 
> your data is free if you use it, stored locally in standard markdown files.

In general, I agree with Doug's assessment. Some of Obsidian's feature 
looking interesting, but not being open source is a deal breaker.


So some interesting points:

* they appear to be a Kitchener company, founded by UW graduates
   - https://obsidian.md/about
* they have a system for publishing your notes
   - https://obsidian.md/publish
   - as a feature this is nice, and I would like something similar to
     this in my own tools
   - but again, not FLOSS, so you are stuck with their service
* they generate a nice graph of how pages are linked
* their sync service is end-to-end encrypted which is nice
   - but again you are depending up on their non-free software to
     implement this correctly

I assume that they will make their money on the Sync service, and 
selling license/support contracts to organizations. They seem like they 
could be free software and still do those things.  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Andrew

(P.S.:
Just before this thread, I was some other discussions about notes taking 
in general, which also mention Obsidian:
* https://lobste.rs/s/rzyvgq/what_is_your_neo_vim_version_control_for
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30975586
)


> This is just from googling, I'm not currently using either program.
> 
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2022, at 1:10 PM, Federer Fanatic wrote:
>> On episode 171 of the Late Night Linux Podcast: 
>> https://latenightlinux.com/category/podcast/ 
>> <https://latenightlinux.com/category/podcast/>
>> you will find links to other note taking tools (I have not tried 
>> them), In particular,
>> FocusWriter and PanWriter, and also Horcrux
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------
>>  Roger Federer Fanatic Extraordinaire :-)
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 at 12:24, Bob B <bob at softscape.ca 
>> <mailto:bob at softscape.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey fellow geeks, I stumbled across Obsidian.md in my youtube
>>     recommendations and I've been using it for a few weeks. I think
>>     I've found a winner for my exocortex. It seems to scratch a lot of
>>     itches that I have with my digital note taking.
>>
>>     Just wondering what you guys think of this tool.
>>
>>     https://obsidian.md/ <https://obsidian.md/>
>>
>>     (The other)Bob.
>>
>>
>>
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