The cult of Obsidian: Why people are obsessed with the note-taking app

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Nice app, like the idea of it being just plain text, but will stick to one note myself. The synch service is a must for me, and don't want to pay for another service, when onenote and onedrive synch all that I need.

An interesting app nevertheless and am sure will suit many users.

There's lots of alternate, free and open source syncing solutions. I use syncthing myself.

Like another person said, many ways to sync. I use Resilio personally and love it.

Try Notion. I changed from OneNote to it and don't regret it.

100% agree that Notion is fantastic compared to OneNote. I also switched back in 2018.

Unfortunately, their mobile app is still fairly sub-par, their data format is proprietary and not markdown, and it is only slightly cheaper than Obsidian Sync. Also, their integration system has basically gone nowhere. Which sucks because it could be good. I also have lost data on numerous occasions due to their sync system and their official policy is "oops". In that respect, OneNote is better.

I used Notion for about 5 years before switching to Obsidian recently. Notion was far better than anything id used and generally it is a good tool, but i also was never able to make notion work as well for me as Obsidian, esp. in a way that i optimistically keep information in it. Notion often was just enough effort (esp when on the go with mobile) that i just simply could never use it to its full potential.

However, obsidian, imo, does require some plugins to meet my needs. But i think this is a good thing. Projects basically does everything i like about Notions databases. Dataview takes care of database views.