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The website says it’s free for personal use. Is there a bait-and-switch somewhere?
They are just selling their own sync option. Since Obsidian store all the notes as plain markdown files on disk you can just use another sync option like Dropbox or even git.
Has anyone used Joplin ( https://joplinapp.org/ )? How does it compare to Obsidian? I've used Joplin for a while. It's Markdown so I like it. The UI is dry (compared to Evernote).
That went faster than expected, awesome to see! My major issue with the mobile apps is the syncing. On iOS you get to decide between iCloud or Obsidian Sync. On Android you can hack together something with third-party syncing apps and local disk storage. But if you have been using Dropbox or OneDrive for syncing on your PC, you won't be able to (bidirectional) sync your data to your mobile devices (out of the box). O…
Also since I don't use iCloud for anything else base 5GB will be enough for the foreseeable future.
Obsidian is the closest thing I've found to the Pensive from Harry Potter. It's a data recording format good enough for me to extract thoughts from my mind, represent them with enough fidelity to reconstruct later, connect them to the concepts that they are related to in my head, and then forget the thought completely so I can move on and process it later. I was only willing to try it out because I had heard it menti…
OneNote has been free for the last few years.
> port those notes in an exportable format
You can export your notes in a HTML-like format. I haven't tried to convert it into a different format yet, though.
I tried out Obsidian but its really not for me. The divide between edit mode and view mode is annoying and I don't really see the appeal of the focus on the graph and links - I'd prefer if my notes were kept organised and logical through a system I develop as opposed to the random(?) linking of keywords. I use Notion right now for my notes which I like, except from the always online requirement. I'm currently waiting…
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The website says it’s free for personal use. Is there a bait-and-switch somewhere?
They are just selling their own sync option. Since Obsidian store all the notes as plain markdown files on disk you can just use another sync option like Dropbox or even git.
Another option on mobile is to use Ulysses to edit notes stored on whatever compatible sync service you are using, but you don't get the full Obsidian functionality (or E2E). If you mainly just type notes and don't do a lot of linking etc then it won't matter much.
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After what feels like trying every note tool under the sun. I’ve been using Joplin 3 years now and won’t leave if I can help it. Why pay Obsidian $4/month, when Joplin is free and open source, can sync, has a desktop App for every OS, has a mobile app, encryption at rest, and I can contribute to it?
It's only $4 a month if you want to use their sync, there is a plugin for using github to sync (if that is your thing) or I just use syncthing and have my obsidian folder there. Edit: Actually, I guess that won't work with mobile
But syncthing would probably be the easiest option for this!
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Yeah, I've used both. I think the main things that Obsidian does better are its UI (which is pretty good, some annoyances around creating new notes and managing folder structure), and the fact that its notes are one-to-one with actual .md files on disk. In comparison, Joplin keeps its notes in a more opaque format, where the notes database is a bunch of files with garbage filenames and so on... and the UI is, er... f…
The website says it’s free for personal use. Is there a bait-and-switch somewhere?
- The desktop, mobile, cli apps and clipper are open source. They can all sync for free with any of the supported services - Dropbox, OneDrive, S3, Nextcloud, WevDAV and the file system (some people use SyncThing). All this will always be free and open source.
- Joplin Server is free for personal use, so you can self host it. It was MIT originally, but I had to change to a more restrictive license because companies were selling access to it and I don't think it was fair that I do the work for free, and all they have to do is run `docker-compose start` and sit there and make a profit. But if it's for yourself, family or friends then it's free and will remain so.