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Doing a quick look at their homepage and pricing pages I don't think it's communicating it's value proposition well... Or I just don't understand this use case. Am I missing something?

Is there more to this than syncing notes across devices and (optionally) hosting them on a web page? Maybe 'notes' isn't the best term, but that's the term the site uses ... Does seem to include markdownish support? And if you pay $96/year you get a node graphic layout option?

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It's just a really really good markdown editor. With some great power user features. Not sure what else to say!

*really really bloody good. i would more broadly say knowledge base? I have yet to find a tool that has so little friction in storing/retrieving (Text+img based) ideas + Interoperability + Speed

Do you have a good way of storing and organizing images (and other media) in Obsidian? It's the one aspect where I've found its functionality wanting.

I thought you can just embed images and other media [1]. They have to be stored in the attachments folder [2].

[1] https://help.obsidian.md/Linking+notes+and+files/Embed+files

[2] https://help.obsidian.md/Contributing+to+Obsidian/Style+guid...

iiuc, it's both. drag / paste an image into obsidian it will automatically be stored in your attachments folder (regardless of what note you're in) and a preview is placed in the note itself

That's not really my experience. It depends on your browser and configuration on how well this works. Firefox for example does not work, but chrome does. With Firefox it instead creates a broken <a>-link with nested <img>.

I am surprised to hear this, as the Obsidian functionality is the only out-of-box offering I find acceptable in a corporate environment. Other alternatives like notion, logseq, joplin all break my workflow in spite of their selling points, because they do not simply store or reference a file. Obsidian is easy for me because I simply drag and drop something like a pdf or recording, and even if it is not a readable file within the Obsidian view, a file copy is dumped to the attachments folder without altering any of the metadata and a simple path reference is inserted in the fancy-markdown document. You can configure different workspaces/settings to dump to different folders if needed, but I treat mine mostly as a dumping ground that I manage similar to a bucket. If I need to audit images I can simply look at the folder with another program.

For me, the value proposition is twofold:

- the multidevice sync allows me to write both as an impulse (on my phone) and structurally (on my computer)

- I derive value from Obsidian. It is genuinely very good. I want this company to have a decent survival chance.

How is obsidian sync any different/better than putting your vault on gdrive/icloud etc?

it is end-to-end encrypted

I’ve found it faster and much better able to merge concurrent edits vs last write wins that is more typical on eg iCloud.

I don't actually use Obsidian's syncing feature or web publishing.

I use Obsidian to write and manage large collections of linked notes, like a personal Wiki; only I don't need to host a wiki somewhere, and the files are just plain text files. It's become one of my killer apps, one where I manage all of my background notes for the projects I work on. It suits the way I think, and I find it more useful and more friendly than other apps of its type.

really good markdown editor, overwhelming amount of community plugins, all data's local and stored in plaintext. app itself is free, easy syncing option is the $4/month (with afew other nice to haves) though there are ways to do it for free (syncthing, but that's changing with the ST team not supporting andriod anymore and apple is weird too).

I've now been using it for ~3 years and I do everything in it. wonderful, wondeful tool

logseq is open source, free, markdown editor, support many plugins and it's actually really fast.

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