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Obsidian vs zettlr10/30/2022 My notes, while not entirely locked-in (due to their text markdown file format), are at least partially locked-in due to the way I’ve adapted their content, folder structures, etc. As I mentioned and the Obsidian team seems to agree with, my way of taking notes is personally affected by the application I use. I agree that note-taking is incredibly personal and their sentence linking the personal aspect to the application itself, speaks to this.įinally, the Obsidian team makes a great point about cloud services, instability of companies being bought, and data lock-in. Tried every app, but there’s always something not quite right? You deserve better. I’m pretty sure that the Obsidian developers recognize this because it says the following on the homepage: That means, I’m going to have to change things about how I structure my notes for them to be the most effective in each tool. Yes, I can open my Obsidian notes in Zettlr, Joplin, or Zim (with its markdown import) but to use them well, I need to adapt my personal processes to those interfaces, features, and the worklows of those distinct tools (sometimes equivalent features that we rely on for creating note content, don’t even exist in the other tools). The features of this tool, its interface, and the inherent workflows all cause the way a person structures notes and folders to be somewhat different than in other tools. In a note-taking/knowledge base application like Obsidian, content is created a little differently than in alternative applications. #Obsidian vs zettlr tv#Here’s a simplistic analogy: consider a film on a tv in your home… it’s not the same experience as that same film in a theatre. File content is often not totally independent of the application that it was produced with. However, an open format for files is not sufficient for the future or compatibility. This is very compelling it’s one of the reasons I want to use markdown (and Obsidian). You can freely edit notes in other software, even while having them open in Obsidian. Your notes are stored in markdown, which is an open format based on plain text files, and so should be readable in the future by any computer that can deal with text files. We believe your data is always yours to own and control. In the help page “How Obsidian stores data” it recognizes the benefit of open formats, saying: #Obsidian vs zettlr software#I would like to ask for more of an understanding of their thinking on a few points that they express prominently but which seem at odds with the fact that the software is not open source. How is the situation on mobile, e.g.Obsidian gets so much right! And, I really appreciate the team’s generally respectful approach to users. Now reading the help file of Typora and realizing that Typora, too, does not seem to recognize the double bracket links. Joplin (otherwise very nice!) seems to not recognize the double bracket wikilcnks created in Obsidian. I bought into the concept that markdown is a simple and save way to facilitate interoperability and longevity of my notes - did not expect to land in such a minefield of difficulties when using different markdown editors :(ĭevonthink shows my Obsidian files in a very strange manner. I am currently trying out different markdown editors (because I hate Obsidians requirement to switch between viewing and editing mode), and these differences make me crazy. In other words: if you edit your markdown files in another markdown app using a different syntax for linking, do you later have to go back an recreate all the correct links in your "main" app? How are you guys dealing with the fact that most markdown editors like Typora do not recognize / utilize the ] syntax used to create links in Obsidian?
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