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Obsidian is now free for work

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Re: Obsidian is now free for work

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Post by bdzr »

crooked-v wrote: post #9

I feel like the Obsidian Publish pricing model is a bit off. Having it "per site" feels like nickel-and-diming for small things that's kept me on Notion for a lot of miscellaneous web-published projects. It would be more appealing for at least me if it was something with a higher flat rate that then doesn't care about the exact divisions between your projects.

Interesting. I usually don't complain about prices because I wish more products charged, but I always found the publish pricing to just be too high altogether. I have a blog that's a few simple markdown files and it's easily worth the pain of setting up GitHub pages instead of paying $8/mo. Maybe I'm not the target market though.

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Post by nanook »

kvdveer wrote: post #6
ldoughty wrote: post #4

Doing a quick look at their homepage and pricing pages I don't think it's communicating it's value proposition well... Or I just don't understand this use case. Am I missing something? Is there more to this than syncing notes across devices and (optionally) hosting them on a web page? Maybe 'notes' isn't the best term, but that's the term the site uses ... Does seem to include markdownish support? And if you pay $96/…

For me, the value proposition is twofold: - the multidevice sync allows me to write both as an impulse (on my phone) and structurally (on my computer) - I derive value from Obsidian. It is genuinely very good. I want this company to have a decent survival chance.

How is obsidian sync any different/better than putting your vault on gdrive/icloud etc?

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Post by dtkav »

nanook wrote: post #23
kvdveer wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, the value proposition is twofold: - the multidevice sync allows me to write both as an impulse (on my phone) and structurally (on my computer) - I derive value from Obsidian. It is genuinely very good. I want this company to have a decent survival chance.

How is obsidian sync any different/better than putting your vault on gdrive/icloud etc?

it is end-to-end encrypted

Re: Obsidian is now free for work

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Post by LVB »

nanook wrote: post #23
kvdveer wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, the value proposition is twofold: - the multidevice sync allows me to write both as an impulse (on my phone) and structurally (on my computer) - I derive value from Obsidian. It is genuinely very good. I want this company to have a decent survival chance.

How is obsidian sync any different/better than putting your vault on gdrive/icloud etc?

I’ve found it faster and much better able to merge concurrent edits vs last write wins that is more typical on eg iCloud.
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