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For a personal knowledge base? I would stay far away from anything proprietary for personal notes. I love logseq though I'm increasingly worried it's abandonw

For a personal knowledge base? I would stay far away from anything proprietary for personal notes. I love logseq though I'm increasingly worried it's abandonware

Saris 6mo ago
Obsidian is at least storing in markdown. Although some plugins probably add additional formatting that isn't standard.
linsomniac 6mo ago
My use case isn't likely to be a personal knowledge base, I've just never had any traction on that sort of thing beyond a blog/microblog. I'm wanting to use something specifically for organizing the building of a shop/ADU: todo lists, pinterest-like inspiration boards, costing spreadsheets...
vovavili 6mo ago
You don't lose anything from the proprietary nature of Obsidian because it's just markdown files all the way down.
- freedomben 6mo ago
  Yeah to clarify, I mean Notion was proprietary. Obsidian I would call borderline because as you mentioned, the markdown file storage format.
zaggle 6mo ago
Logseq was captured by VC a long time ago. They switched from open files to a database, their synching product is closed source (not selfhostable), and they have built-in telemetry.
- rchaud 6mo ago
  I don't think I've updated my Logseq since 2022. As far as that is concerned, it's Markdown files that I can sync with an open-source tool like Syncthing-Fork.
- cldwalker 6mo ago
  The latest sync is self-hostable - https://github.com/logseq/logseq/pull/12315 https://github.com/logseq/logseq/pull/12315
soundnote 6mo ago
Logseq isn't abandonware - they're in the process of rebuilding the app from the ground up to be database-driven, rather than house-brand Markdown as the source of truth and a database constructed from the files afterwards. I'm not saying it's the most likely project to survive, but they've been working in quiet mode for a good while now.
holoduke 6mo ago
For the sake of staying a computer nerd I decided to put all my notes in a private GitHub repo with help of a local 5b Gemma4 LLM. Is working extremely well. It doesn't matter in what format i type. I Use opencode for entering new notes.
amaccuish 6mo ago
https://anytype.io/ https://anytype.io/ is the open-source CC of Notion AFAIK.
- kepano 6mo ago
  it's source-available, not open source https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/anytype/ https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/anytype/
  - requilence 6mo ago
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- hresvelgr 6mo ago
  Anytype is a well-made product, but its data format is somewhat opaque and like Notion suffers from significant complexity. I switched to Obsidian last year, which while proprietary at least gives me the option to move my data somewhere else if I should need to. Anytype doesn't make it easy to get your data off its platform.

For a personal knowledge base? I would stay far away from anything proprietary for personal notes. I love logseq though I'm increasingly worried it's abandonware

Saris 6mo ago

Obsidian is at least storing in markdown. Although some plugins probably add additional formatting that isn't standard.

linsomniac 6mo ago

My use case isn't likely to be a personal knowledge base, I've just never had any traction on that sort of thing beyond a blog/microblog. I'm wanting to use something specifically for organizing the building of a shop/ADU: todo lists, pinterest-like inspiration boards, costing spreadsheets...

vovavili 6mo ago

You don't lose anything from the proprietary nature of Obsidian because it's just markdown files all the way down.

freedomben 6mo ago
Yeah to clarify, I mean Notion was proprietary. Obsidian I would call borderline because as you mentioned, the markdown file storage format.

zaggle 6mo ago

Logseq was captured by VC a long time ago. They switched from open files to a database, their synching product is closed source (not selfhostable), and they have built-in telemetry.

rchaud 6mo ago
I don't think I've updated my Logseq since 2022. As far as that is concerned, it's Markdown files that I can sync with an open-source tool like Syncthing-Fork.
cldwalker 6mo ago
The latest sync is self-hostable - https://github.com/logseq/logseq/pull/12315 https://github.com/logseq/logseq/pull/12315

soundnote 6mo ago

Logseq isn't abandonware - they're in the process of rebuilding the app from the ground up to be database-driven, rather than house-brand Markdown as the source of truth and a database constructed from the files afterwards. I'm not saying it's the most likely project to survive, but they've been working in quiet mode for a good while now.

holoduke 6mo ago

For the sake of staying a computer nerd I decided to put all my notes in a private GitHub repo with help of a local 5b Gemma4 LLM. Is working extremely well. It doesn't matter in what format i type. I Use opencode for entering new notes.

amaccuish 6mo ago

https://anytype.io/ https://anytype.io/ is the open-source CC of Notion AFAIK.

kepano 6mo ago
it's source-available, not open source https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/anytype/ https://isitreallyfoss.com/projects/anytype/
- requilence 6mo ago
  [dead]
hresvelgr 6mo ago
Anytype is a well-made product, but its data format is somewhat opaque and like Notion suffers from significant complexity. I switched to Obsidian last year, which while proprietary at least gives me the option to move my data somewhere else if I should need to. Anytype doesn't make it easy to get your data off its platform.