But then, how would you insert a link (in a note) to a specific line in some codebase? In a different branch. Or a link to a specific email thread in a mailing list?
How would you attach images to your notes and manage them in a git repo? How would you encrypt your notes?
How do you insert current or tomorrow's date in a note? How do you find all the notes tagged with a date? ¹
Most importantly, what would you do when you accumulate several thousand notes, and suddenly Obsidian authors ask you to pay for it?
Having my note taking system in Emacs has incredible benefits - I have google-translate, thesaurus, dictionary, spell-checker, Grammarly checker, etc., All right here, everything is accessible without focus and context switching. And, of course, I can change virtually any behavior of any part of the system. And I never have to worry that someday, someone would ask me to pay for "premium features".
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¹ I don't know, perhaps Obsidian has some of those features, and maybe they are even better and more intuitive than in Emacs, but I doubt it would ever be as versatile.
Obsidian has all of this functionality. And underneath it all it’s just markdown files. If they go away or start charging you’re left with your notes just fine.
I don’t have a dog in this or really care what other folks use - but just fyi for others reading.
Obsidian is very nice - my kids use it. But for me personally, Org-mode offers far more than Markdown can ever possibly have. And Emacs, Org, and Org-Roam is an incredibly flexible system - one can tune it to almost a crazy degree and become immensely efficient with it.
How would you attach images to your notes and manage them in a git repo? How would you encrypt your notes?
How do you insert current or tomorrow's date in a note? How do you find all the notes tagged with a date? ¹
Most importantly, what would you do when you accumulate several thousand notes, and suddenly Obsidian authors ask you to pay for it?
Having my note taking system in Emacs has incredible benefits - I have google-translate, thesaurus, dictionary, spell-checker, Grammarly checker, etc., All right here, everything is accessible without focus and context switching. And, of course, I can change virtually any behavior of any part of the system. And I never have to worry that someday, someone would ask me to pay for "premium features".
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¹ I don't know, perhaps Obsidian has some of those features, and maybe they are even better and more intuitive than in Emacs, but I doubt it would ever be as versatile.