Candidate number 3, #Anytype, is a whole different beast conceptually. More than a Markdown editor, it's a database consisting of all kinds of document "objects" and templates (Notion-like, I'm told)
I don't have enough characters (500 is the limit on this instance...) to describe my surprise and disappointment about the difference between how they present themselves versus reality, so this will be multiple posts.
The attached pictures are a collage of my expectations for Anytype.
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@BreoganHackett@mastodon.gamedev.place Thanks!
Yes, Anytype is next. I played around with it yesterday (without monitoring it) but its complexity was both alluring and also a reason to check other tools, despite my (initial) distrust of them.
When installing plugins all bets are off.
Loading dependencies from CDNs, doing their own version checks, or showing a YouTube video on install, the most popular Obsidian plugin (Excalidraw) does it all without asking.
Funnily enough, when it comes to code by other people the developers do see the value of open source.
Next up is #Obsidian, a tool I'm hesitant to consider because of the developers' view on open source. Hence, the source is not available except the obfuscated JavaScript that's ran by Electron.
Despite that, Obsidian itself only does a version check (which can be disabled) and starts in "restricted mode" by default, which disallows third-party plugins (but does still embed external content when asked to.)
There's some phoning home by Chrome but far less than with Logseq.
Color me surprised.
@tal@mastodon.social Interesting, I didn't know that. Logseq has quite a following so odd of them to go for a full rewrite.
But I guess that's a luxury you can afford with $4.1 million :P
Even when turning "Send usage data" off, Sentry is being contacted each time I switch to another note, until I restart the program.
Not the hugest deal but it suggests to me that privacy is not what has the highest priority at this VC-backed company.
Reality: everything you do in the program is being tracked and there is *no opt-out*.
The program records all your actions and sends them every few minutes to Amplitude, a commercial analytics company.
Deep down in the documentation this is mentioned, but there is no consent or even a mention in the program itself or in the privacy policy.
It also communicates constantly with a few AWS EC2 instances, presumably the IPFS nodes it uses to backup your (encrypted) vault of documents.
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