I am trying out a new program for, writing, note taking, outlining, and many other text based operations. I was drawn to it because at its core are flat text files stored in .md format (Markdown). This allows zero lock in as .md files can be read by any text editor.
It has a user extendable architecture and many folks are writing add-ons for it.
Obsidian is the private and flexible writing app.
For all platforms, including Linux, and phones.
A minified/obfuscated/packed version of the source code is available within electron
(I’m not sure what “Electron” is, I’m assuming it’s some kinda open source app framework/library thingy?)
Anyway, this is kiiiinda useful for assessing for malicious code and whatnot, but it’s not /that/ useful.
Anyway, the code is not released under MIT, GPL, etc.
In case you or anyone else ks interested in an open source alternative:
I found Logseq, which… the app itself is fully open source, but the server backend code isn’t… however, the main point of the servers is to provide syncing to cloud storage with E2EE (which is/well be only for paid users?), which can be done with dedicated, free, open source E2EE sync tools. Syncthing springs to mind. So you can use Logseq and just never touch their servers.
Anyway, Logseq looks like it does a lot of what Obsidian does. Knowledge graph, inter-note linking, uses (or can use, not sure if it’s by default) Markdown…
@GlytchMeister
Thanks.
I knew it existed.
But never played with it.
Will mess around.