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Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

#291
The few mentions of plugins lead me to believe that Files.md won't have them, and this:

>Do we really need this feature? Will it help us to do the real job, or does it just give dopamine?

Makes me think that requests for features generally will be turned down. So, No, thank you. Sometimes less is less.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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post #45

Or just use LogSeq https://discuss.logseq.com/t/whats-new-with-logseq-db-may-16...

That markdown mirror is a pretty neat feature. I've been using Trillium for my notes and the way they save/store the notes is actually one of the things I dislike about it even though I love the application itself. I tried at one point exporting everything to markdown and it worked... but Trillium allows you to have notes in multiple places but they exist essentially as just a pointer in the backend to that note. So…

This markdown mirror is a partial solution to a problem that does not exist in "normal" Logseq (what's being rebranded to Logseq OG). The markdown files ARE the data (which syncs beautifully over Dropbox and the like.)

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

#295
post #215

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The data is open and stored in markdown format. Plugins are open source. The core product is not open source, but it's also just an electron app. I've always viewed Obsidian as the inverse of an open core product.

I don't really mind this way of doing it since I know that my data is "safe". I can at any time just grab my vault and open it in any editor. I can write my own editor. I can import the data into most other tools. It's when the data isn't open that I tend to avoid the product.

Its "safe" as in you can access it but its not safe from Obsidian accessing it.

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That was the reason a few years ago I started this project. It seems like software in AI-era should be distributed open source. So that anyone could tweak it however he wants. Not though clunky plugins system.

And the developers get compensated for their work how?

Obsidian is just a shitty wrapper around CodeMirror, which does the actual heavy lifting. How much of the money should Obsidian hand over to the CodeMirror developer?

Re: Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian

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post #6

Nice project. People may also want to checkout Tiddlywiki.

I ended up landing on https://silverbullet.md . It checks a lot of boxes for me, - self hosted - works offline (mostly) - "just md" BUT - scriptable or extendable by lua, rendered in page, eg `${1 + 1}` outputs `2`, but you can do a lot more, such as query pages and tags with a LINQ type query interface.

And the Dev has been awesome. Very active project.
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