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Dumb question: is Obsidian anything more than an open source version of Apple Notes? I realize there's technical differences but from a use cases / feature per

• murermader 5y ago
  Well it is open source, is cross platform and is not made by Apple. So, really different.
  • applecrazy 5y ago
    It is actually not currently OSS, although the creators have indicated interest in open-sourcing parts of it in the past.
• applecrazy 5y ago
  They're the same in the sense that Mail.app and Outlook are the same. Apple Notes is great, but can't do things like tagging/graph view and doesn't allow you to export in a standardized format. Obsidian is a superset of Markdown (with a few modifications for page embedding and wiki-links) and allows you to sync with anything that provides a way for you to upload a folder of text files.
• cepth 5y ago
  It’s a much more fully featured note taking app, probably most directly comparable to Roam Research. E.g., tagging, graph views, back links between notes, note/document templates. All docs are (more or less) plain markdown as well, so if for some reason the open source community ever abandoned Obsidian, in theory it’s easy to export/transfer your notes.
• stevecat 5y ago
  I'm probably underselling it but for me, markdown support and note organisation simply reflecting the directory structure is what sold me. I can then sync it whichever way I want; I've taken to having a "notes" folder in each project and including it in the Git repository. The notes are then browsable on GitHub too. I've spent a lot of time trying to find my "perfect" note taking app, and have attempted to build my own a few times, and I'm very happy with Obsidian.