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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!

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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!

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.

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