As excited as I am about the new crop of "personal knowledge base" software, I'm also hesitant because in their rush to commercialize, many are turning into "Or

As excited as I am about the new crop of "personal knowledge base" software, I'm also hesitant because in their rush to commercialize, many are turning into "Org-mode as a Service" type of companies, with the same focus on subscriptions and vendor lock-in. The developments in this space are very exciting, and remind me of the early Wordpress plugin days. For example, I use a Logseq plugin called "random note" that pulls up a random note from my library. It's a great way to serendipitously re-surface ideas that you haven't thought about in a while. For now, tools like Logseq and Obsidian can be used completely offline, and synced with anything that supports local file versioning, like Syncthing or Git. I wish I could pay $25 flat and have a lifetime license for the software exactly as it works now. As these are flat Markdown files sitting on my local drive, it doesn't seem like something that would need ongoing maintenance.