[Dylan16807]

There's a lot of tools that are very useful but I'm not going to spend that much on. My water bottle is one.

And I don't think food is a good comparison. Or renting a physical space, depending on what you get out of being a regular.

Still, the basic price of $50 a year for sync is something I wouldn't be very upset with... except my main goal is a collaborative setup with other people and I'm not paying 5x or more to make that work.

[KetoManx64]

It comes down to how much is your time worth. If you're a developer making $100K+ a year, a $1,000 over a decade is nothing if it increases your productivity 2-3X compared to your collegues, which considering the fact that some of my colleagues store their notes in Windows Notepad is a complete underestimation.

[coolcase]

So obsidian let's me get 40 hours of work had I used notepad for notes done in 13-20 hours?

[KetoManx64]

I store my code snippets, config templates, daily changelogs, todo lists, and note templates in Obsidian and use them probably dozens of times a day. I have keyboard shortcuts that open up specific notes that I copy code snippets and filepaths from. If you were to put me next to someone that was storing their notes in notepad I would bet you money that they take 2-3x as long as I do.

[Dylan16807]

Oh if you're saying you're 2-3x faster at using notes that's reasonable.

But an extra minute 20 times a day to reach the right section in notepad is still only 20 minutes.

If you're comparing against someone that doesn't do all the saving and automation you do at all, that's not a matter of what program they use.