Comment by shelled

8 months ago

This app deals with very critical, personal, and intimate data – personal notes and professional/work-related notes, but proudly has an Electron app. This alone has seemed like a massive red flag to me.

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aucisson_masque  8 months ago

Until there is a better alternative you’re left with electron. Nothing come close to obsidian.

  • deafpolygon  8 months ago

    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.

    • aucisson_masque  8 months ago

      Well I’m pretty convinced I need obsidian because it’s just the best way to manage stuffs and I hate overcomplicated stuffs.

      I use it to remember stuffs and classify important informations, for instance I had issue fo years with my government to end my enterprise. I made a note in obsidian « enterprise closure » and every time there was a mail, I would save it as pdf and import it into the note. Same for every letter, scan -> import. I could put out my thoughts, next step, … on the note.

      Because it doesn’t crypt notes or attachments, spotlight can index my notes and I can still search for the attachments.

      And the back links are just a bonus because you always end up having multiple side note linked to a main note.

      I have yet to see another software that allows me to do these kind of things. Apple notes absolutely sucks on attachments.

      Putting attachments in folder with notes at the top is hard to search, things always get lost or duplicated.

      I believe there are companies tools for that kind of things like « SERM » but then obsidian just works and it’s free.

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