Re:Be Careful with Obsidian
by theshrike79 on Thursday October 23, 2025 @06:23AM
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In this case the "closed source app" is using a very open and easy to parse format.
If Obsidian enshittified tonight so badly I had to stop using it, the only thing I'd kind of miss is dataview and bases.
And of those dataview is "just" parsing a bunch of markdown with javascript. Bases is a yaml format for displaying more markdown.
I'm pretty sure I could vibe-code some scripts over a weekend that cover most of my Obsidian use-cases and use any markdown-capable editor for writing.
That's why I use Obsidian (and stopped using Joplin, because - at the time - all my notes were in one obscure blob)
Same here. I have not found any open source option that does all of these: Nice user interface / App for both Mac and iOS / Automatic syncing.
If people put their notes in, only open source software is good.
At best, one can tolerate a very big closed source company, who is unlikely to just do whatever with the data and has some track record for privacy, like Apple.
But trusting all your notes to a closed source app from a small peanuts company?