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After what feels like trying every note tool under the sun. I’ve been using Joplin 3 years now and won’t leave if I can help it. Why pay Obsidian $4/month, when Joplin is free and open source, can sync, has a desktop App for every OS, has a mobile app, encryption at rest, and I can contribute to it?

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It's only $4 a month if you want to use their sync, there is a plugin for using github to sync (if that is your thing) or I just use syncthing and have my obsidian folder there.

Edit: Actually, I guess that won't work with mobile

There's Syncthing for Android if you look in F-Droid, at least. Plus a fork with some Android specific tweaks

It works fine with mobile if you're on Android. I use Nextcloud to sync as well as git for versioning.

But syncthing would probably be the easiest option for this!

If obsidian really hits it off, maybe there will be an open source clone once, that is compatible with Obsidian’s plugin ecosystem.

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