@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?