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That's the first thing I check for any system that would, if adopted, become a life-long thing. Zettelkasten is supposed to be exactly that: an ever-growing col
by black_puppydog 5y ago
That's the first thing I check for any system that would, if adopted, become a life-long thing. Zettelkasten is supposed to be exactly that: an ever-growing collection of linked notes, growing more useful the longer you stick with it.
I never understood why anyone would accept linking this sort of system to any third party, no matter how sound their business model, no matter how much trust you may put into the individuals running the company.
- groby_b 5y agoSlightly different take: OSS is the second thing I check. The first one is data export. If it's a closed component that still generates value and I can capture that value via export, OSS becomes a tie-breaker between otherwise equivalent tools. Obsidian is an editor on top of a bunch of markdown files. If they go away, meh. The world is not running out of Markdown text editors. Sync is an add-on feature, so I can sidestep potential privacy concerns there. A working system always beats waiting for a perfect system.