[mcky]

How would that look to you?

I might’ve given the wrong impression - the obsidian part is really just a load of files with some metadata (a collection of flat file system databases), exactly for the same portability reasons/tooling reasons you mentioned

[ravagat]

I think what you want to do is entirely accomplished with what the Personal Computer is. You have a plethora of options with the many types of operating systems available. You already have a lot of functionality built-in. Like you noted you have trouble with the flow and UX but really you're using apps that aren't meant to work with one another. Why not move the abstraction up a level? Instead of containment in apps use your OS