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I went from Notion and Joplin to Obsidian mostly because Obsidian stores stuff as regular files on my filesystem and I can easily interact with them with extern
by theshrike79 3y ago
I went from Notion and Joplin to Obsidian mostly because Obsidian stores stuff as regular files on my filesystem and I can easily interact with them with external programs and scripts.
Joplin, while being open source itself, has a "proprietary"[1] storage format I can't be arsed to figure out how to interact with.
[1] Meaning non-standard in this case, Joplin is the only software using Joplin's storage method
- moneywoes 3y agois there anything with a lightweight learning curve akin to Obsidian that uses a accessible format?
- theshrike79 3y agoAny text editor with markdown support should work. Just VS Code with a Markdown viewer is a decent replacement. You don't _need_ all of the fancy plugins that Obsidian has, but some of them are genuinely useful.
- stavros 3y agoIt's "just" a SQLite database, I wrote a small Python script to extract my Joplin notes to a static site: https://gitlab.com/stavros/notes/ https://gitlab.com/stavros/notes/
- theshrike79 3y agoOn the other hand Obsidian markdown with front-matter can be fed pretty much directly to a static site generator. Sqlite does give some speed improvements and makes searching easier.
- anonzzzies 3y agoIt’s SQLite; arguable the format most fast custom storage format requiring software (games notably) should use instead of rolling their own.