Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
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Re: Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
#2This looks nice but nearly identical to Obsidian. How does it differ from Obsidian's features?
Re: Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
#3This looks nice but nearly identical to Obsidian. How does it differ from Obsidian's features?
It seems to be open source, which is a big plus compared to obsidian
Re: Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
#4This looks nice but nearly identical to Obsidian. How does it differ from Obsidian's features?
The file format isn't markdown, instead a proprietary format in JSON
Re: Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
#5This looks nice but nearly identical to Obsidian. How does it differ from Obsidian's features?
It seems to be open source, which is a big plus compared to obsidian
Why is it a big plus, genuine question? You do not need Obsidian to use your Markdown written content and are not vendor locked in as such.
Re: Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
#6Notion.so, but free. Nice!
Re: Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
#7I absolutely love this program and recommended it multiple times on HN.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems to be open source, which is a big plus compared to obsidian
Why is it a big plus, genuine question? You do not need Obsidian to use your Markdown written content and are not vendor locked in as such.
The same reason it is a plus for any other open source software. You can modify it and fork it if it's discontinued.
Re: Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems to be open source, which is a big plus compared to obsidian
Why is it a big plus, genuine question? You do not need Obsidian to use your Markdown written content and are not vendor locked in as such.
Open source / Free software comes with all the usual benefits:
- you can fork and adapt to your needs
- should the original authors stop developing it or take a direction you don't like but your started depending on it, someone can take over the development of a fork
- you can study how it works
- you can reuse some of the code to build an alternative product
- you can contribute patches if the project accepts them
- if you have to migrate, even if the format is specific, you can at least check how it works
That thing being open source is a big plus, and Obsidian using a standard format is a big plus.