Posted by xz18r 20 hours ago
I find there's just enough missing things around collaboration/permissions/sharing that makes Obsidian a non-starter for work, even for the small team I have. Also seems it just feels a bit more "scary" for non-technical users to onboard onto on than Notion.
And if I can't use it for work, I'm not going to use it personally because I don't want to juggle multiple notetakers.
I imagine Obsidian is way more efficient for sharing context between you and agents and wish I could take advantage of that, but I also need to be sharing that context with my team
I was a big todo.sh fan in college. Then wundrrlist and joplin. Still miss wunderlist. Tried Tiddlywiki too and liked it. You can make all of them work if it's just you. Sharing and collaboration is pain!
Then Notion. It is just perfect. Was very happy to pay for personal plan which is now removed. There is no official client for Linux (thanks Lotion). I was even using it to host my blog. Now downgraded to a free plan. Using wordpress for blogging.
Have tried obsidian and joplin as notion replacement but couldn't make it work. Notion mobile app is not very fast but better than any other options. I am so used to its databases, cross-linking, creating reminders.
Why not bring back the personal plan! It was really affordable.
For real-time collaboration, some options are:
- Relay
- Peerdraft
- Screen garden
(full disclosure - I am the developer of Relay)
In my opinion, what could have been done is kind of like what mozilla does where it will vet some of the most popular extensions, so that you know there is at least some kind of verification on these extension, and let everything else be wild.
I'm not sure that you can use a.i. to defeat a.i., if an ai is able to spot malware in a code, it can just as well hide it (from itself).
AI is not used in the review process. The system is primarily based on our open source eslint plugin, with additional dependency and malware scanning
Sooo... don't use it?
There are plenty of open source alternatives, and I'm sure someone's going to mention org-mode.
As long as it's trusted, there is no lock-in, and the model supports maintaining the software, what do you have to lose?
Also, more generally, any software that has unique features will require "the annoying process of fixing them and getting it working in whatever new system I switch to when I leave", whether it's open source or not. So you're not actually looking for open source, you're just looking for something with perfect feature parity to another program.
From the docs:
> The Obsidian team is small and unable to manually review every new release of community plugins. Instead, we rely on the help of the community to identify and report issues with plugins.
https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-help/blob/master/en/E...
What, no smiley face in those comments? Maybe a silly shrug would have been appropriate.
See also: https://stephango.com/self-guarantee
And yet, I'd wager my life savings that almost no one using open source software actually verifies that it's not malicious in a different way than one would closed source software (ie. reputation), and instead almost everyone just trusts it.
Beautiful searching and editing experience and all the KM features that I need, all on plain Markdown. I’ve been extremely happy since I set it up.