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can't speak for the author but: * obsidian is a proprietary piece of software so you can't rely on it for long term archival. There's zero guarantee the compan
by masukomi 6y ago
can't speak for the author but:
* obsidian is a proprietary piece of software so you can't rely on it for long term archival. There's zero guarantee the company that makes it will exist next year and keep updating it to work with new operating systems.
* obsidian doesn't download page contents
* obsidian doesn't handle bookmarks in any notable way.
While they both use markdown, and can store notes the similarity pretty much ends there.
- osmarks 6y agoIt does use flat files for storage, so there's not much lockin there.
- groby_b 6y agoAnd the flat files are IIRC markdown, so it works just fine for long term archival.
- masukomi 6y agonot true. If you buy into obsidian's features then you loose the visualized graph, a functional task list, all your [[internal links]] break etc... sure, you've got your core data, but now you've got to recreate obsidian if you want it to work the way you've become accustomed to, and presumably like since you would have used it long enough for this to be a concern. exporting your data is great, but it's only the beginning. For example: I can export my data from twitter too. It doesn't mean I still have a functional way to share short text thoughts, or the history of them, with their responses linked to other user's accounts or functional way to show all my tweets with a tag or or or ...