[echelon]

Since the data store is markdown and can be synced with git, eventually an open source UI will appear. It's almost inevitable.

Ironically, if Obsidian was open source and charged $25/mo for services, I'd happily pay for it. Even if they used a strict license to deter competitors (eg. stating they must license their changes back to Obsidian and that all hosted software interacting with Obsidian must also be open source).

[Terretta]

Since the data store is markdown and can be synced with Git, you can already work with an Obsidian vault using Foam in VSCode. I do.

Workflow: PKM in Obsidian, move ready docs to designated docs folder tree, sync w/ git to shared docs site repo, two-way collaborate w/ colleagues on docs.

You do need to align some options in each, such as file naming, a header, a particular style of links, and ensure frontmatter behavior. All necessary settings exist.

https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

https://github.com/foambubble/foam/issues/46

This supports basic static file and links functionality, not extended data tools etc., of course.