Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
This is the same conversation they had with reddit for years. It’s being developed for everyone and we’ll make it open some day. Now look what happened.
I use obsidian but only with the bare minimum knowing that I may have to jump ship at any moment.
ploot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
It’s regrettable that Obsidian isn’t open source. But the nice thing about it is that its data store is just a bunch of markdown files in a folder structure, and very easily migrated to any other comparable application. They may have the code but they don’t take the data hostage like a lot of commercial software does.
dance_ninja@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah they even say if you don’t like what they do in the future you can easily pickup your md files and take them elsewhere.
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
Agreed, I use it with as few options and extensions as possible. I don’t want to start creating a complex system of notes that will rely on anything specific. I try to stick to the core functions without any extras because of the worry of eventually falling into a proprietary black hole. I keep my foot in just enough to get my uses but not so much that I might get stuck with the software.
artificialfish@programming.dev 1 week ago
It’s insane obsidian isn’t open source, since it’s just a fancy vscode plugin or fork basically (idk how they developed it obviously but that’s all you’d need to do). That’s why I don’t use it. It’s too simple not to be OSS