Comment by AlanYx
7 months ago
Obsidian is a great app and probably the closest thing spiritually to org-mode for those who aren't interested in emacs, but Obsidian doesn't (currently) come close to the whole package.
Just as some examples: outline-centric without plugins (this allows functions like narrowing/hoisting to a particular part of the outline that you can't do in Obsidian), substantially better export/document authoring, org-babel (think Jupyter style notebooks or literate programming) integrated into the core concept, functionality integrated into the core system rather than siloed into plugins (org-agenda is essentially a combo of the dataview plugin and the todo plugin in Obsidian, but built to work together, and completely integrated with things like timekeeping/clocking for those who bill hourly, which is still missing from Obsidian). Plus some of the keyboard-centric stuff in org-mode is just really nice, down to little niceties like how you can manipulate dates and times without clicking around. Then there's all the benefits of emacs on top of that.
To some extent a lot of this derives from org's 22 year history. It's a very mature system, with loads of functionality.
One strength of Obsidian though is canvas mode. There aren't great emacs solutions like that at the moment.
Logseq might be worth a look. It supports org-mode files to a degree. There’s a lot of org functionality. You can just about edit the files in emacs directly.
The original logseq developer was a heavy org-mode user prior to developing it. Though now that logseq is moving to a database backend rather than plain text files, it's becoming a different type of solution.
Is that going to be optional? I have been using log seq, and I really like that it is text based. I write so little that a lifetime of content could easily fit into memory and be searched, unindexed without issue.