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Ferrite is privacy-focused in that it's fully offline — no telemetry, no cloud sync, no accounts, no network calls (even Mermaid diagrams render locally in pure Rust).

However, files are stored as plain text, same as Obsidian/VS Code/any text editor. Encryption at rest isn't currently on the roadmap.

For encrypted storage, you might consider: - Using Ferrite with an encrypted volume (VeraCrypt, LUKS, FileVault) - git-crypt for encrypted git repos

That said, if there's strong interest in built-in encryption (vault-style or file-level), I'd love to hear more about the use case. Would you want password-protected vaults? Per-file encryption? Something else?

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I want cold storage encryption which is cross-platform and doesn't require FUSE and such. Current solutions are all either non-cross-platform or overkill, so I'm still using Obsidian non-encrypted. It's a matter of default and ease of use.

That said, I've checked Ferrite out – unfortunately there's a very long way to go before it becomes Obsidian-ish (left and right panel, add tabs, hide the top formatting bar), better focus on those features. If it becomes close enough – I'll implement the encryption myself :)

Fair feedback! You're right — Ferrite isn't Obsidian-complete. Those are reasonable additions: - Left panel already exists (file tree + outline), but could use polish

- Right panel (backlinks?) would come with v0.3.0 wikilinks work

- Hiding toolbar is a quick settings addition — I'll add that to the list

What's your priority order for those? And if you do implement encryption later, I'd love to see the approach!

Main priority would be the editor itself to be similar to Obsidian (with links etc.) but maybe better, Obsidian is annoying for example when you edit a TODO list (which is 99% of the time for me), go to the beginning of the line, then press down to go to the next item -- Obsidian jumps into position between "- [ ] " and "item text", instead of staying at line beginning. Long story short, many small details to make this right.

The TODO list cursor behavior is exactly the kind of polish detail that matters. I'll add this to the issue tracker — cursor should respect line start position, not jump past the checkbox syntax.

These "many small details" are what v0.3.0's custom editor widget will unlock. egui's TextEdit doesn't give us fine-grained cursor control, but replacing it will.

Awesome, initially it looked like a quick AI-generated project but I see you care about it and plan investing the effort into it. Will be following on Github!

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