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> The reason I use plain text is that nobody has made a similarly universal format for multimedia Care to explain what you mean with multimedia? What is missin
by slightwinder 5y ago
> The reason I use plain text is that nobody has made a similarly universal format for multimedia
Care to explain what you mean with multimedia? What is missing with the existing audio/video/picture-formats?
> And because of that, ordinary people (and tech geeks) don't have a way to personally utilize and store their copious multimedia
There are dozens of tools to organize and utilize your media-content? Kodi is widely used as I know.
> For example, there's no good way to backup your Snapchat or Facebook page,
How is this the fault of the FOSS-world? They can't dicate a company what they offer and what not.
> or even better, to create an equivalent locally.
Yes, but for what? What is Facebook or Snapchat in your mind that it would be even neccessary to create it locally? But, there are tools with similar function. It's just not simple to use, because such services are not simple by they their own nature and nobody, neither FOSS nor commercial world, has made it simple enough yet to setup services for any random user.
- wolverine876 5y agoI mean one document that contains multiple kinds of media (text, stills, moving images, etc), which you can very easily author in many server-based applications such as wikis, social media apps, etc. Word and LibreOffice struggle with it.
- cyberpunk 5y agoTake a look at obsidian, it just outputs plaintext markup. You can embed stuff in there also (I frequently paste images in, and also edit the same documents directly on gitlab or via vim etc)
- wolverine876 5y agoThanks, I will. To be clear, my wishful thinking would include an editor for images and video that's like a great text editor.
- sharikone 5y agoThat's exactly the issue. Obsidian is great but not open source. I think the closest free software equivalent is Joplin (or maybe Zettlr)
- wolverine876 5y agoDoesn't Obsidian output open source (i.e., plain text Markdown documents)?
- silly-silly 5y agoAs far as I can see, there is no license attached to the output of Obsidian. Open source is a license, not a standard.
- Icathian 5y agoJoplin is the best FOSS option I know of right now. It's a lifesaver. Sync it up to a bucket or something via webDAV and it's good to go.
- meremortals 5y agoDendron is open source: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron
- mycall 5y ago> one document that contains multiple kinds of media Like HTML or PPTX.
- dvfjsdhgfv 5y agoUsing HTML for that purpose, emedding large images and other multimedia files in it, while in theory could work, is another nightmarish stretch of the standard and depending on the size of your document could bring your system to a stall. PPTX is Microsoft open-ish format for presenting slides and I doubt using it for that purpose would be a good idea.