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by the_cramer 1114 days ago
The great thing about Obsidian is that it still uses plaintext (it's not obsidian exclusive, i know). In case of issues with the tool, you can view and edit files in an editor. It also makes syncing stuff / backups very easy. Since you're probably having a kind of syntax already it won't be hard to change.

With a proper keyboard, it's super fast to create and link notes. On mobile it sucks hard. Things like "[text](linkForText)" are not very mobile-friendly.

One big gripe i have is the table editor. There is an advanced table add-in to help, but it still sucks. Create a table and put a long link into it.

Well-known keys like "end" or "pos1" don't do the expected. "TAB" will add fields... i don't know, this should be better.

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I'm familiar with markdown enough, but I don't have much need to format my own notes, no need for tables etc. All I really need is headings, and sub-headings to various degrees.

I've been wanting to make my own program to deal with that since using tex for that seems like overkill even though it works well enough. I may still as Obsidian being closed source is kind of a bummer and I'm trying to limit the closed source software I use as much as possible.

You could give a try to Logseq
Isn't the licensing an issue? As far as I can tell you can't use Obsidian at your workplace without an annual commercial license, which is fair enough but maybe too heavy a lift for many.
Yes. Professional use requires licensing. Too bad as our workplace forces the use of OneNote, which imho is lacking.