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Don't you think having so many competitors offering free notes apps is a large part of it?

• D13Fd 3y ago
  He gave the Obsidian example, which is a great one, so no. Obsidian shows you can still do well as a noted app company if you are selling the right thing (sync).
  • DeathArrow 3y ago
    But you can sync your Obsidian notes for free if you use free Dropbox or OneDrive accounts.
    • nullandvoid 3y ago
      This isn't trivial when you start syncing mobile (now you need an extra app, as onedrive doesn't support local), or onto a work device (where I don't want onedrive installed) There's work arounds (for example I forgot the name, but one plugin allows you to setup onedrive to share just one folder via logging in on each device), but the syncing story wasn't great. Quite a bit of extra setup across all devices, more points of failure etc. Hence the smart business model, of let us handle it for you for a small cost.
      • da5is 3y ago
        There's an Obisidian plugin for direct syncing to OneDrive that works on both mobile and desktop - this keeps you from having to deal with either triggered syncs through github or the various other, painful syncing processes. https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save https://github.com/remotely-save/remotely-save