It seems AGPL but also has a paid tier which makes me wonder what their business model is.
Is it only the hassle of self hosting that stops potential customers from having the paid features for free?
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#22This looks nice but nearly identical to Obsidian. How does it differ from Obsidian's features?
Obsidian sync feature is paid service, this project you can setup your own service
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#24It seems AGPL but also has a paid tier which makes me wonder what their business model is. Is it only the hassle of self hosting that stops potential customers from having the paid features for free?
Welp it appears from what I could find on their website that the Pro tier is needed to use all features even for selfhosted instances.
Am I missing something here or couldn’t people just fork this and pull off a vaultwarden?
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#25This looks nice but nearly identical to Obsidian. How does it differ from Obsidian's features?
Obsidian sync feature is paid service, this project you can setup your own service
There are free alternatives, e.g https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync
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#26I’ve been self-hosting it for three months now, and I am happy. I came from Joplin; I lost the offline access, but it’s much more “expressive” and nice, so to speak. I don’t miss any other feature, even in the pro version. Doesn’t depend on other docker containers, I just used authelia for auth, and while it uses its own file format I backup the data volume and it’s possible to export manually in simple markdown. The web UI is responsive for mobile use and yes, I am happy. Fits my case better than the others.
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#27I am using markdown files in a private GitHub repo for personal knowledge management. For me this works just fine... Is there any feature you think I might miss from tools like these?
Graph view, backlinks and databases.
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#28I tried to give it a shot a few months back, but the lack of vim bindings were a blocker for me, and seems like it isn't planned yet. Hope to try it sometime in the future.
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#29I keep seeing these note-taking tools pop up again and again. I am heavily invested into Logseq already and the new database version is coming out soon. Unless these tools provide import and export utilities to convert your notes between the most popular applications like Logseq and Obsidian, only new users will use them and people with very few notes who can put in the time to move.
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#30What I miss from this type of apps, including notion, is the ability to "inherit" properties from databases.
I would like, for example, to create a superdb with basic task properties (title, deadline) and then create subdatabases that add more project-specific properties.
This, I'll be able to create a single view with all my tasks for the day in a single place, but also add all the info I need for individual tasks.
Unfortunately, for some reason, nobody (that I know of) built something like this into their apps.