[tombert]

You know, I don't hate most aspects of Confluence, except I find the editor to be terrible (at least in the way it's configured in my workplace). I find that I inadvertently change fonts all the time, I can never really get code formatting to work, the I find the controls to be counter-intuitive. Granted, a lot of these are sort of inherent to WYSIWYG editors, but I guess I just really want them to add a true "write in markdown instead of a WYSIWYG".

Because of this, I do all my notes in Obsidian, which I like a lot, but there's something sort of inherently problematic with this: a lot of the notes I take about how things work (e.g. build steps, relevant links, code snippets, code "gotchas") should probably be shared with the team, but it's such a pain in the ass for me to put onto Confluence that I don't bother.

[arksingrad]

I'm in the same boat. Most of my notes transfer over just fine because it's Markdown, but Confluence handles in-lining LaTeX significantly worse than pretty much any other CMS I've ever used.

[tombert]

I forgot about equations!

Obsidian sadly still only really supports the typical Mathjax stuff, so I can't do really cool and advanced LaTeX like I would if I were using Pandoc or something, but sadly I feel like really good equation support is still something that most note-centric apps care a lot about.

[spacehunt]

For an online shared Markdown note taking, try hackmd.io.

[tombert]

The issue is that it's not useful unless I can get my entire team to really use it, and more importantly get the company to sign off on it. If I want to write down and share anything proprietary with a third-party service, I need IT/corporate sign off on it.

I can do Obsidian because it just runs locally on my computer, and I could do Confluence since corporate has signed off on it, but if I try doing a random markdown website, I think someone would smack me.