I wish all markdown editors just had their markdown files in a simple folder like Obsidian does.
I wanted to like Bear, which advertises that it uses markdown. But when I went looking for the files, they were locked away in a database. This was many years ago, so if this has changed, I’d be happy to hear it.
I’d love to be able to easily jump between apps, which markdown should allow in theory, but in practice view apps allow for. I don’t find using a text editor to be ideal here as a solution, as I want my notes to look like notes and hide away the syntax when the cursor isn’t on the syntax. Obsidian handles this well, most text editors do not.
Why not? It’s got a huge user base, a massive open source plug-in ecosystem and a sensible revenue model. It’s probably one of the note apps that has the largest community around it outside of Notion, which is heavily VC influenced and is more of a do everything app
One of Obsidian's creators is saying exactly the same actually.
https://stephango.com/file-over-app
I’m a time traveler from 2046 and I hate to break it to you but it’s still running strong.
Couldn’t avoid the computation panic of 2038 but it got by
For me that's one of the great points about obsidian's choice of all notes being Markdown.
Even if Obsidian vanished tomorrow and the application became unmaintainable, I'd still have all my notes in a text based format.
I wish all markdown editors just had their markdown files in a simple folder like Obsidian does.
I wanted to like Bear, which advertises that it uses markdown. But when I went looking for the files, they were locked away in a database. This was many years ago, so if this has changed, I’d be happy to hear it.
I’d love to be able to easily jump between apps, which markdown should allow in theory, but in practice view apps allow for. I don’t find using a text editor to be ideal here as a solution, as I want my notes to look like notes and hide away the syntax when the cursor isn’t on the syntax. Obsidian handles this well, most text editors do not.
Why not? It’s got a huge user base, a massive open source plug-in ecosystem and a sensible revenue model. It’s probably one of the note apps that has the largest community around it outside of Notion, which is heavily VC influenced and is more of a do everything app
But Op's program have even less probability to be here in 20 years
How?
Because Obsidian exists, is finished, has a community, and is in use?
Because it takes time and energy to develop and maintain a software
We'll see. I think there is a chance that it will.
Neither solution is guaranteed to stick around for 20 years.
As we’ve seen before, it takes one VC investment to change a source available license into something not so friendly and forks are never guaranteed.