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Personal Knowledge Management Apps / Note-Taking Apps.
After EverNote and Co. many people got angry / fustrated.
Since I found https://obsidian.md I'm actually happy with everything - as the plugin's are open-source, it's flexible and there is no lock-in as it's all simply markdown format. ObsidianMD is just a markdown viewer - but with superious UX. There are also alternatives to that like Logseq though.
After seeing this, I cannot imagine anymore to use something like Google Notes, OneNote, etc.
Also shoutout to Logseq, love this app. Open Source and privacy focused. https://logseq.com/
How do you manage tasks in obsidian?
There's a tasks extension that will show all of the tasks across any note in a sidebar
Check out org-mode in emacs. It's amazing.
Obsidian is super nice, but people need to remember that commercial use is paid, and fairly broad.
Very easy to download it at work and end up violating their license. Probably better to stick to something the office provides or a truly FOSS alternative for work, unless you’re willing (and/or able within company policy) to pay for it.
I have reluctantly been using obsidian after trying every floss alternative. It is portable, easy to start with and there is a rich plugin community. Unlike joplin, the closest floss competitor, it actually stores files in plain markdown so if you need to access them through another tool you can. Obsidian adheres to the unix philosophy better than joplin. :(
They are both electron which sucks but at least with obsidian you do not have to be running the application all the time because of the plain markdown thing.