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Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man... by skaragianis on Thursday December 26, 2024 @12:29AM (#42513328)
The file format isn't markdown, instead a proprietary format in JSON
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man... by adhamsalama on Thursday December 26, 2024 @01:06AM (#42513447)
Is it not open source?
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man... by skaragianis on Thursday December 26, 2024 @03:09AM (#42513807)
It locks your efforts to the vendor/project which is different to Obsidian
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man... by adhamsalama on Thursday December 26, 2024 @07:49AM (#42514878)
It is still open source, not proprietary, and you can export files to Markdown anyway.
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man... by Pooge on Thursday December 26, 2024 @05:50AM (#42514418)
I'm not an Obsidian user, but I agree with their "file over app" philosophy.[1]

If SiYuan stops being developed, are the files still readable/parse-able?

[1]: https://stephango.com/file-over-app

Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man... by pg999w on Thursday December 26, 2024 @06:57AM (#42514708)
Yes, if SiYuan stops being developed, you can still get your notes exported as markdown files. Since SiYuan is open-source, you can also use the internal code to parse the JSON format notes.
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man... by adhamsalama on Thursday December 26, 2024 @07:50AM (#42514879)
It's open source, so yes, and you can export files to Markdown anyway.
Re:Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge man... by princevegeta89 on Thursday December 26, 2024 @05:58PM (#42518520)
Yes, your existing installations on your devices, whatever they are, can read your data as long as you use the correct Repo keys that are used to encrypt stuff. In the worst case, you can deploy the docker instance with older images to keep going on.