There are better alternatives. It's just that people have convinced themselves they need the features Obsidian offers - because it makes them feel smart and important.
At the end of the day, you're just taking notes. If you write a journal, don't put it in something like Obsidian. Even Apple Notes is better (in security, privacy, etc) in this regards.
Point is, you don't need Obsidian (or all of its plugin). People have been making do with Dropbox and plain text (.txt) files perfectly fine for years.
Wow I never knew I "can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem".
Plain-text folder on a cloud sharing service. Edit with notepad.exe or whatever editor you prefer. Others have been doing it with .doc files forever, or .rtf.
Give Octarine (https://octarine.app) a try?
Built with tauri & rust, and is more performant, and doesn't rely on random contributions for basic things as plugins.
Disclaimer - I build it.
There are better alternatives. It's just that people have convinced themselves they need the features Obsidian offers - because it makes them feel smart and important.
At the end of the day, you're just taking notes. If you write a journal, don't put it in something like Obsidian. Even Apple Notes is better (in security, privacy, etc) in this regards.
How do I use Apple Notes cross-platform?
You can't. But that wasn't the point, was it?
Point is, you don't need Obsidian (or all of its plugin). People have been making do with Dropbox and plain text (.txt) files perfectly fine for years.
Wow I never knew I "can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem".
This is why people use Obsidian.
Plain-text folder on a cloud sharing service. Edit with notepad.exe or whatever editor you prefer. Others have been doing it with .doc files forever, or .rtf.