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by jbiggley 886 days ago
+1 for Obsidian or other platforms that support Markdown format natively. Being platform locked is terrible for knowledge management and Markdown has made me less concerned with future knowledge access in a post-Obsidian world. (Yes, I said it! There will be a post-Obsidian world.)
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A couple years ago I switched from Google Docs to Obsidian.

Unfortunately, as other have mentioned, Google Docs omits some seriously impactful features.

All it would've taken, at the time, was collapsible/foldable headings for me to stick with Docs.

But since then, I've grown to appreciate the millions other things Obsidian has to offer, like the ease of developing plugins which, to me, make Obsidian feel like it's an OS within my OS.

I'm using it and syncing my notes to GitHub, these are technical notes