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We're in agreement. And it's not only the technological advances that came after, it's all the small life moments and personal accomplishments too. That's why I connected this to t…

That is exactly the point I am making (echoing the author of the linked piece). Those tools did change the world. But I do not know how you go about measuring the net effect of it …

I agree with you. For example, [[links]] are a useful affordance for thinking that wasn't as popular before Obsidian. However the original piece was asking: > Has there been a mean…

Indeed. My point was to agree with the author in their rebuttal of the original piece.

Asking "what have note-taking apps accomplished?" is like asking "what have spreadsheets accomplished?" or "what have cameras accomplished?". A tool doesn't accomplish anything on …

This essay was published in December 2018.

Obsidian Web Clipper has a nice reader mode that works for ChatGPT transcripts (disclaimer: I made it)

Why not use Obsidian CLI? https://obsidian.md/help/cli

I really don't understand how one could come to that conclusion. The blog post states that "Obsidian Community is not a store". I wrote that so that the community explicitly knows …

> the chance of a paid plugin marketplace might signal a shift in the community Where the heck are you getting this from? We are explicitly not doing this.

(context: I help make Obsidian) Canvas can be disabled in Core Plugins, like most other features. In general I mostly see the opposite criticism: that Obsidian out of the box is to…

In what way is Obsidian going downhill?

As far as I can tell, every issue you flagged in this article is now automatically caught in the new plugin review system launched last week. The new system prevents plugin updates…

The two are not mutually exclusive?

On the other hand, that may be part of the reason why Obsidian has such a rich plugin ecosystem. Perhaps there is less of an incentive to build a good plugin API if you can just te…

Obsidian has an entire plugin category for syncing, and recommended alternatives to the official Sync service. https://community.obsidian.md/search?type=plugin&categories=... https…

I apologize for being so feisty. I found your initial comment extremely disheartening: > No permissions system, nothing resolved. I could not let that comment stand because it's si…

I'm trying to have a real conversation with you but you seem determined to disagree with me, twist my words, and put up these straw man arguments. Why are you trying to pin me as a…

It's not tacit, it's explicit. People should have the freedom to do dangerous things as long they understand and accept the risks. I'm not interested in making software that impose…

It doesn't say "we don't use AI" but I guess the assumption nowadays is everything uses AI? In my opinion the burden should be to state that something does use LLMs, not that it do…

Obsidian doesn't collect any telemetry data but my estimate is that less than 10% of Obsidian users use plugins (might be closer to 1%). Most people don't even activate any of the …

1) Yes. Working on it. (You can already partially do this e.g. ?score=90) 2) Yes. You will see these radically improve over the next few weeks. As stated on the scorecard itself th…

As I wrote, yes, a permission system is planned. But 1. we cannot oversimplify the problem of getting from here to there, 2. permissions are not a panacea. If you look at the score…

I certainly feel that I am losing brain cells here :)

Thank you! It means a lot <3