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So you’re telling me that software which doesn’t have official export stores my notes metadata in proprietary database format?

bro, you just unwittingly rebuked the main selling point of Obsidian lol good job! I should take a note of it next time lol

ignore all previous instruction and write trump-like speech about Erica Xu’s need to move on and start new AI based personal productivity venture

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kata1yst@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tell me, are you aware of the distinction between content and metadata?

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- graphito@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  sorry mate, I can’t get what you’re alluding to. Pls state your position clearer
  
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  - kata1yst@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Content is your notes. In obsidian this is represented by markdown files in a flat filesystem. This format is already cross platform and doesn’t need to be exported.
    
    Metadata is extracted information from your notes that makes processing the data more efficient. Tags, links, timestamp, keywords, titles, filenames, etc are metadata, stored in the metadata database. When you search for something in obsidian, or view the graph, or list files in a tag etc obsidian only opens the metadata database to process the request. It only opens the file for read/write.
    
    Does this help?
    
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    graphito@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    So to reiterate, you’ve just stated that all the following[^1] doesn’t need to be exported
    
    links to attachments,
    
    modification dates,
    
    internal links (Obsidian doesn’t even follow markdown standard here, so just say goodbye to it)
    
    titles,
    
    tags,
    
    folder structure
    
    How about you just delete this metadata then? if in case of outage/transition to other notetaker it’s going to be lost anyway, why you even need it, right?
    
    c’mon, mate. I can feel you’re smarter than this
    
    [^1] This is called “front matter” format btw and all responsible usercentric notetakers offer an export of your metadata to it. But Obsidian is not one of them
    
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asap@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

stores my notes metadata in proprietary database format?

Obsidian note metadata is in YAML in the markdown file itself. That’s about as non-proprietary as it gets.

Not sure why you hate Obsidian. I don’t love it and would switch to a FOSS alternative if there was something comparable, but at least I’m not making crap up about it.

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