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

[Andrew Mercer]

My use case is just vaults mapped to existing directory structures on my local computer. Anything created by obsidian is a local file written in markdown. Maybe my use case is over simplified, but it's certainly a lot simpler and more efficient than its predecessor (mediawiki) and I don't feel stuck with it - I'd just need something that reads markdown. Just my opinion, but I haven't even looked for anything similar that is open source, I'd be open to suggestions since I don't currently use anything that requires sync and I'd rather an open source project.

- Andrew

------- Original Message -------

On Saturday, April 16th, 2022 at 11:56, Andrew Sullivan Cant <acant at alumni.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> 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
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> - 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:
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> * https://lobste.rs/s/rzyvgq/what_is_your_neo_vim_version_control_for
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> * 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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