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Logseq is cool. Do give Zim a try if you can, it’s been around for a while and is one of the more thoughtfully designed OSS GUI applications. Python and GTK impose limitations on the flexibility of extensions in general but it’s pretty fast and easy to extend otherwise. In terms of WYSIWYG I still don’t see anything much better on Linux.

The main reason I don’t use it today is my mobile and tablet experience is much better with Craft, which feels similar to Zim in its WYSIWYG mode (but more like Notion). However, I can run Zim fine on an older raspberry pi, which I can’t do with Craft and wouldn’t bother to try with Obsidian. My cloud-hosted Craft notes aren’t gonna survive after decades of supply chain crises and global turmoil, but my Zim notes and the application will probably outlast me with even a half baked plan.

Logseq is also oss, obsidian I believe opening is planned but dunno much about the status, don’t keep up with it.

Why wouldn’t you bother to try it? When I was doing my oscp I had to take mad amounts of notes, I tried zim, cheeytree, a few others I forget and obsidian was clearly the best, electron notwithstanding (and it was religious to me also, but really it has improved quite a lot since we formed our views about electron)

These days, I tend to use obsidian for longer form entries, in the same repo I use logseq primarily (and with working copy git client on my phone, obsidian mobile gives me access to all my logseq files, stopgap until they release the mobile app).

Obsidian can get a little slow even on a T480 with 32 GiB of memory, though usually there's no issue but noticeable startup time. Sublime didn't run on the Pi I had and VSCode was too slow (this is why I ended up learning vim last year, at last). Given my experience with VSCode and observing other apps like Chrome, I assume it wouldn't work that well. However, I'm not sure I was even aware of Obsidian when I was using that machine every day. It and Chrome, VSCode etc. certainly could have improved since then (maybe 1.5 years ago)

It doesn't appear that the Obsidian devs have any plans to open source the project [1]

[1]: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/open-sourcing-of-obsidian/1515

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