Comment by edanm

17 hours ago

I don't really know what we're disagreeing on.

> This isn't markdown, but markdown + dozens of extensions,

Yes, if the way you use Obsidian includes dozens of extensions that each use a proprietary format, then it's similar to just using Evernote in many ways.

If you're mostly using plain markdown with only a few custom formats, then it's still easier.

If today, right now, Obsidian stopped working, I could literally open my Obsidian folder in VSCode and still be able to do 90% of the things that I do in Obsidian.

If today, right now, Evernote stopped working, it would take some effort to find a working version, export the files, convert them to markdown or whatever, etc.

I just don't know how you can claim that Obsidian is more effort to use outside of Obsidian than something proprietary.

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edanm

eviks 15 hours ago

> If today, right now, Evernote stopped working, it would take some effort to find a working version, export the files, convert them to markdown or whatever, etc.

No, at your accepted level of the loss of functionality that would be trivial.

  - Launch the app you already have, export
  - Launch another app, import. Could be Obsidian. Here is their guide. https://help.obsidian.md/import/evernote
  - Open results in VSCode and ignore the 10% lost in conversion

> I just don't know how you can claim that Obsidian is more effort to use outside of Obsidian than something proprietary.

Because at every step you trivialize one option and complicate the other. While they're generically equivalent. All the same things apply...

> If you're mostly using plain

If you're mostly using plain notes in Evernote, then your conversion to the same plain markdown will be trivial, so using another plain markdown isn't easier