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Some common issues I ran across that pushed me to Obsidian (for now) were mobile app support, package maintenance, and difficulty configuring and maintaining. Many people have no difficulty setting up and maintaining an app like beorg and orgzly, but translating the many keybinds and modes to a ml mobile interface can be cumbersome. I've personally experienced issues with folding large org files, not to mention the act of actually keeping the files in sync. SyncThing / rsync works for many, but is another tool to maintain. Even if you can get your files right, the workflow on mobile is not up to par with desktop, and I've had a much easier time with Obsidian sync. Which leads to package managment. It can be harder to depend on the goodwill of open source maintainers to find solutions to corner cases, particularly if you find something that becomes a staple of your workflow. If my choices are become a competent Elisp developer or kick someone a fee to keep working on a project, I'm picking the latter. I personally still am hesitant to push more and more of my workflow onto org-roam knowing it was birthed as a labor of love and a side project, knowing that it might not be maintained, or that versions will require labor and patching on my part to roll out, as was the case with the jump from org-roam v1 to v2. Also, depending on how you do choose to setup emacs, it can be a house of cards to set up all your packages and keep them running and up to date. Even if you are really savvy with elisp, keeping your versions, packages, and dotfiles in working order across multiple systems (not to mention mobile, as above) can be daunting. And not all platforms are supported equally. Configuring doom emacs to run on my Windows 10 work machine was and is not easy. Obsidian installed and opened in one click. I get and understand supporting open source and if that's an objective, logseq seems to be doing a great job on that front. It's still missing some features that would push me to switch over entirely (their Android support is non-existent, and many plugins I loved on emacs and Obsidian I haven't found a nice solution for (time-tracking and time blocking, and not even Obsidian can match org's export features, but markdown works fine for now, while logseq files were difficult to format). Overall, I love org mode and want it to be my daily driver. But at the end of the day I have to remember that I can't let knowledge management be a part-time job. I was spending so much time tinkering with tooling that it was impacting the very thing it was supposed to help: my workflow. Maybe someday I'll revisit org over several cups of coffee and a rainy afternoon, but Obsidian and Todoist will take care of me until then. |
As a very happy Obsidian user I'm curious which export features you're missing; "there's a plugin for that" is trite but a safe bet.