•  astrionic   ( @astrionic@beehaw.org ) 
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          11 months ago

          What I really like about Obsidian is that it stores your notes as plain text/markdown files on your computer. So you always have access to them, even without Obsidian itself. Markdown is also a fairly common format, so it shouldn’t be too hard to move them somewhere else later.

          But your concerns are still valid and I generally also prefer free open source software.

            •  wim   ( @wim@lemmy.sdf.org ) 
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              111 months ago

              I’m a l former emacs user of ~10 years and I could never get used to org mode, so it’s definitely not for “normal” people.

              Additionally, in modern times being emacs bound means no decent mobile client, no web interface, and mandatory roll-your-own sync and backup.

              There’s a few friends I know who swear by org mode up and down, but it’s a considerable effort for most people to use it.

      • Different use cases, indeed. All I need is plaintext, images, and in-line pdf rendering. No audio, no video, no LaTeX, not even italics or bold.

        Now, to be completely fair, while Joplin is great for simple notes, it’s data entry modes are weird AF. I assume, in a programmers mind, the operation is normal for an IDE as it can’t/won’t render links/objects in line with editing. You either get a markup-only window that’s editable, a rendered window that is read only, or lose half your screen to a split-view version. These options are selected via two, separate, unlabeled, non-status-indicating toggle buttons which cycle through 2 and 3 versions if the view.

        Aside from that, it seems nice.