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obsidian.md

Just channeling kepano here

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Why isn't obsidian open source again?
- @Tangent5280 @nodimetotie That’s been asked and the devs have answered a gazillion times. Search the #Obsidian Forum or the Discord.
  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.
- 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
Nice!
I love using Obsidian.
- Variety is great, although becomes a bit overwhelming. I guess someone might need to curate all that content
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
I just wish it was open source.

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