FirmDistributionGermany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory
This is something very important:
Don’t focus on aplications (FOSS or not) but on open data formats and proper import/export mechanisms so you can switch applications easily.
That’s why I use Obsidian! It’s not open source, but all my notes are just… pre-emptively saved as markdown files on disk. If they fuck me over I can just leave and open it in literally any markdown editor 😭
If they used a proprietary format, I probably just wouldn’t have used them in the first place and would have had to use a shittier alternative.
u_tamtamYou could, I don’t know, use an open source note taking app? I mean, it’s not like obsidian has some unique and unmatched capabilities ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What is a plaintext (non-database) md editor that had wikilinks, LaTeX, back links, tags, PDF export, properties and dataviews, and a plugin community? Plus it needs an android app and desktop app that can be synced (even just via syncthing) seamlessly.
I am always open for switching!
Vscodium for notes, interesting.
I looked into joplin before obsidian actually, but it is much more of a standard note taker, not good for zettelkasten sort of notes (link and tag focused)
Im.very into “AsCode” and pretty comfortable with vi bindings. So the two extremes where i document (random notes with no structure needed and formally verified documentation ) it works for me.
I can preview the markdown, use vale rules to enforce style and vocab, do mermaid.js diagrams, link my UML to stuff, etc.
Then check into git to do version control or just to save it off local.