[poulpy123]

> People have a mental barrier when it comes to recurring, low-cost payments;

It's because they add up. In this specific case, considering OP job and it's heavy use of obsidian, it makes no sense to not pay for the synchro, if only to support the company[1], but if I was paying 8€/month for all software and service I'm using I would be bankrupted immediately.

Ironically this hurt open source and companies proposing generous free tiers the most because the amount of money people have for software will go to the one they cannot get for free.

[1] actually it makes no sense to develop your own tool when alternatives already exists

[coolcase]

Also it is competing with a free editor and USB stick that has been around since 2000. That's the anchor.

Then now you have Google docs, Dropbox, O365, Notion, Confluence, etc.

[dunefox]

I mean, by this definition it's competing with a small paper noteblock and a graphite pencil. Lose the USB and everything is gone, forgo all features of Obsidian, etc.