axelson

axelson

Obsidian – a cross platform app to help you create a knowledge base with Markdown files

I’ve been really enjoying obsidian.md:

It is very snappy (even though it is based on Electron). I love that it is all local by default with no required login or sync (and you can use your own syncing solution). But it also has a good business model attached (it’s free for personal use, but if you’re getting paid for any of the notes that you keep in it then you need to pay for yearly license). Works great on Linux too.

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dimitarvp

dimitarvp

In Apple’s eyes their OS must be end-user-friendly. How would you try and enforce people don’t get ransomware when they are on the level of your average grandma?

For the record, Microsoft did a lot of questionable such decisions in the past (and many people aren’t okay with what they did, to this day), again to protect the average clueless person.

We as techies can act all smug and intelligent – “won’t happen to me, I know what I am doing” – but most people seriously have no clue.

…Although I’d appreciate if MS and Apple actually gave you a choice to opt out – but I know such news would make the rounds in many forums and people will just learn to opt out immediately after they install the OS so then the measures won’t be worth anything.

I don’t approve of what they are doing but do recognize that they must address not only technical users. And the rest of us, if we get too unhappy, can always go to Linux.

AstonJ

AstonJ

Nice find Jason!! Just downloaded it and renamed all the .txt files to .md in my notes folder :nerd:

I usually use Apple Notes for notes, however they’re synced in the cloud (handy if you want to pick up working on something on your phone) but I try to avoid using it for anything sensitive, such as server notes - so Obsidian looks like it could be really nice for that!

Obsidian does try to make two connections to the web on start up, if you disable check for updates it seems to stop (I’d prevent it anyway via LittleSnitch but it’s worth knowing if you don’t use LittleSnitch).

I wonder if we should split posts like this into individual threads so that they can trend in our lists btw? This is just the sort of thing Devtalk is aiming to help with - make it easy for people to see what’s hot/trending :smiley:

dimitarvp

dimitarvp

Pretty interesting find. I am setting up Syncthing today (on 3 machines! and I’ll do 2 more in the next days) and I’ll install this and put my notes in a folder dedicated for notes. Thanks!

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