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After this thread became a discussion of competing, sometimes extreme approaches, I want to add one alternative. Markdown files, organized in folder hierarchy a
by mstngl 6y ago
After this thread became a discussion of competing, sometimes extreme approaches, I want to add one alternative. Markdown files, organized in folder hierarchy and synchronized by the service of choice are fine for me - for notes and knowledge collection. Recently I started to add the superpower of tags and links to other files by using Apps like Obsidian[1] and Zettlr[2] which are very similar. The great advantage is, that you just show these apps the par of your notes folder and are not maintaining notes in an app-specific environment. The syntax for tags and links is simple and will not disturb massively even if opening the files in a text editor.
This approach merges the simplicity of plain text, the power of tags and links and keep this independent of the of synchronization, backup or future development of these apps or anything in this stack of tools.
[1] https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/
[2] https://www.zettlr.com/ https://www.zettlr.com/
- BoysenberryPi 6y agoObsidian's licensing makes it immediate non-starter for me and I would imagine the same for most people who would want to use it for work, side projects, or anything they hope to make money off of.
- omnimus 6y agoWhat is the problem you see? I am interested why i should be cautious. It seems like offline app that uses .md files. And the authors seem legit bootstrappers with quality projects behind them.
- BoysenberryPi 6y agoThe free license and the one-time purchase license do not allow for commercial use. You would need to purchase their Enterprise license to use this commercially. Is it expensive? Not really, $50 a user per year isn't necessarily expensive when considering price alone but when compared with other alternatives in the space I'd rather not deal with a yearly license. I used Obsidian Beta up until they released their licensing.
- kevinslin 6y agoif you are looking for an open source version of obsidian/zettlr, I would check out https://dendron.so https://dendron.so (disclaimer, I'm the author). supports all the same features and built on top of vscode. use it to manage my personal knowledge base of 20k md files
- pps 6y agoZettlr is Open Source (FOSS) - https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr