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   Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 03:25:07 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

   "Even Obsidian’s most dedicated users don’t expect it to take on Notion and other note-taking juggernauts. They see #Obsidian as having a different audience with different values."
   What are the values? Freedom and control.
   Freedom to use an org system I created, freedom from my data stored by someone else somewhere and freedom from being dependent on one company's decisions.

   #PKM #notetaking #Notes

   https://www.fastcompany.com/90960653/why-people-are-obsessed-with-obsidian-the-indie-darling-of-notetaking-apps

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     Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾 (liztai@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 03:25:08 JST Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾

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     • Ellane
     • Dean-Ryan Stone 🇦🇺🥋🎶⌨️

     @dhrystone @ellane hah! That's why I avoid Notion. I spend far too much time tinkering than doing things 😂

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     Dean-Ryan Stone 🇦🇺🥋🎶⌨️ (dhrystone@techhub.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 03:25:09 JST Dean-Ryan Stone 🇦🇺🥋🎶⌨️

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     • Ellane

     @liztai @ellane Obsidian is so far beyond Notion in usefulness. I honestly think that people just use Notion because they get jollies specifically out of configuring and tweaking the thing versus actually *achieving* anything (that couldn’t be achieved way easier with any of a number of other apps out there).

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     kepano (kepano@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 09:28:48 JST kepano

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     • Alberto Ⓥ

     @moshtodon @liztai I don't know of any app aside from Obsidian that has all the following:

     1. stores data in an interoperable plain text data format local to the device
     2. does not have VC funding
     3. does not include telemetry
     4. has a flexible plugin API for both desktop and mobile
     5. is actively maintained and improved
     6. gets quick security patches, e.g. the recent CVE-2023-4863
     7. has end-to-end encryption for sync between devices
     8. is free for personal use

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     Alberto Ⓥ (moshtodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 09:28:49 JST Alberto Ⓥ

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     @liztai I would say that #Obsidian indeed promotes more freedom than Notion but not more than #logseq due to its proprietary software. Obsidian looks amazing, and the huge amount of plugins attracts me a lot, but then I remember it is closed sourced and therefore not trustworthy :(

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     Alberto Ⓥ (moshtodon@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Oct-2023 09:32:43 JST Alberto Ⓥ

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     • kepano

     @kepano @liztai well, that's kind of the point, we need to trust you when you say there's no telemetry and there's E2E encryption because it is closed source, apart from auditing it with software like wireshark.

     On the other hand, I'm thinking on LibreOffice although they work with different kind of files, but it's 100% free and sustainable. Have you explored this kind of methods to fund Obsidian?

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