I personally wouldn’t recommend obsidian (mentioned at the end of the article), but still, I think the article is worth reading.

  • PersonalDevKit
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    8 months ago

    I wonder this with obsidian also, it is one of the things that keeps me from diving in head first.

    It seems a lot of its “powerful” functions are against it’s plain text advantage. However I don’t really see an easy way around it.

    At least at the end of the day you or someone else could write a script to modify the plain text files for the next app.

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      8 months ago

      It’s tricky for sure. The plain text is great, and all the functionality is built off of plain text (even the canvas!), but replicating the functionality isn’t trivial by any stretch of the imagination. Migration is easier because of the text files, but will it be as easy to see the links between notes? Or query all the notes I need more detail in? Or map it all out visually?

      I think reimplementing the core obsidian functionality in a FOSS clone would be fun… except I already have a queue of projects and not a lot of time, so here I am complaining instead 🤷