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> anyone working on the latter is doing it as a closed, proprietary, commercial system. But that's exactly the point of the article. It doesn't matter which ap

> anyone working on the latter is doing it as a closed, proprietary, commercial system. But that's exactly the point of the article. It doesn't matter which app you use, or whether that specific app goes out of business or enshittifies - text files are portable to any other app. Sync it with rsync or git, they're just text. That's why so many people on this site love Obsidian despite it being closed-source - the files it uses all exist in the most open file format of all.

ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
Except Obsidian doesn't use Markdown syntax for internal links to other Obsidian files, but (some variation of) Wiki-Syntax. This is something which I had to write my own parser for when converting Obsidian files to Org-Mode files using Pandoc https://github.com/Release-Candidate/Obs2Org https://github.com/Release-Candidate/Obs2Org
- aItr 2y ago
  If you dont like wiki-style links, you should turn it off in the Settings > Files and links > Use [[Wikilinks]].
  - ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
    It's not about me and my configuration. The problem with Markdown is that there are so many "extensions" or variants or whatever you want to call them. But the usage of Wiki-style links instead of Markdown or HTML links is something really, well, "interesting". While it may be easier to type than markdown links, they are certainly worse to read as "plain text".
gorgoiler 2y ago
I don’t really understand how this addresses my original point. With iOS I have an entire platform that can’t edit text files. What is supposedly a universal format is just not supported in this OS. I also saw this point being made elsewhere recently regarding how iPadOS still does not have TextEdit: https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/#missing-apps https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/#m...
- ghusto 2y ago
  I'm in the same situation and don't have this issue. It's not that the OS doesn't support plain text files, it's that other OSs bundle in plain text editors, and iOS doesn't. Simply install one (like iAWriter), and you're done. You can't use iCloud for syncing, so then also install Syncthing (Mobius). It's not as shiny a setup as the native offerings, but it's by no means a chore.

ReleaseCandidat 2y ago

Except Obsidian doesn't use Markdown syntax for internal links to other Obsidian files, but (some variation of) Wiki-Syntax. This is something which I had to write my own parser for when converting Obsidian files to Org-Mode files using Pandoc https://github.com/Release-Candidate/Obs2Org https://github.com/Release-Candidate/Obs2Org

aItr 2y ago
If you dont like wiki-style links, you should turn it off in the Settings > Files and links > Use [[Wikilinks]].
- ReleaseCandidat 2y ago
  It's not about me and my configuration. The problem with Markdown is that there are so many "extensions" or variants or whatever you want to call them. But the usage of Wiki-style links instead of Markdown or HTML links is something really, well, "interesting". While it may be easier to type than markdown links, they are certainly worse to read as "plain text".

gorgoiler 2y ago

I don’t really understand how this addresses my original point. With iOS I have an entire platform that can’t edit text files. What is supposedly a universal format is just not supported in this OS. I also saw this point being made elsewhere recently regarding how iPadOS still does not have TextEdit: https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/#missing-apps https://www.macstories.net/stories/not-an-ipad-pro-review/#m...

ghusto 2y ago
I'm in the same situation and don't have this issue. It's not that the OS doesn't support plain text files, it's that other OSs bundle in plain text editors, and iOS doesn't. Simply install one (like iAWriter), and you're done. You can't use iCloud for syncing, so then also install Syncthing (Mobius). It's not as shiny a setup as the native offerings, but it's by no means a chore.