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MarkText.appPerhaps you know someone who swears by Obsidian, it may seem like a cult of overly devoted people for how passionate they are, but it's not without reason
I've been using Obsidian for over 3 years, at a point in my life when I felt I had to handle too much information and I felt like grasping water not being able to remember everything I wanted, language learning, programming, accounting, university, daily tasks. A friend recommended it to me next to Notion (of which he is a passionate cultist priest) and I reluctantly picked it and fell in love almost immediately.
Obsidian seems very simple, like a notepad with folder interface, similar to Sublime Text, but the ability to link files together in a Wiki style allows you to organize ideas in any way you want, one file may lead to a dozen or more ideas that are related
If you want to do something specific, Obsidian has a plethora of community created plugins that expand the functionality, in my case, I use obsidian to organize my classes both as a teacher and as a student, using local databases, calendars, dictionaries, slides, vector graphic drawings, excel-like tables, Anki connection, podcasts, and more
I've been using Obsidian for more than a year. It's been great. I think it offer a great balance of control, flexibility and extensibility. What is more, you own your own data, that's been a must-have feature for me. I just can't imagine putting all my knowledge into something that I don't have control over.
I think two of the most popular alternatives that people consider are Logseq and Roam Research. Although Logseq is a bit different, it's considered compatible with Obsidian. Supposedly, you can use them with a shared database (files. Both use simple text files for storage). I tried that once, a few months ago. It worked, yet it messed up a bit my Obsidian files ¯_(ツ)_/¯.
Based on our record, Obsidian.md seems to be a lot more popular than MarkText.app. While we know about 1489 links to Obsidian.md, we've tracked only 4 mentions of MarkText.app. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
FYI that page still links to https://marktext.app/ on the right under About. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago
Marktext.app is offline, and according to Github, the creator has been really quiet on any commits in all of April ( Jocs (Ran Luo) · GitHub ). Source: about 3 years ago
For writing use MarkText. It's a single-pane WYSIWYG Markdown editor. You edit directly in the rendered text. You don't have to know Markdown, it's the underlying file format. Think of it as a word processor that uses Markdown under the hood. Source: about 3 years ago
Maybe you want to take a look at the Mark Text? Source: about 3 years ago
Obsidian Website Download, docs, community, and roadmap. - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago
You can find out about Obsidian on their site It's free to use and open source. - Source: dev.to / 4 days ago
I don't argue that companies are obligated to distributing their products as open source. Not at all. One of my favourite pieces of software, Obsidian is closed source, and I have no objection to that. They as a company need to make a profit, and they are free to chose their own strategy.5. - Source: dev.to / 6 days ago
Obsidian Official Website Still an incredible tool for the right type of workflow. - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago
This is a plugin for Obsidian [1] that can extend Obsidian with custom functionality. There's a demo video in the readme. Why? Obsidian is a note taking app with tons of extensions. Even so, there must be hyper-niche use cases that aren't being served by any existing extension. LLMs are decent at coding though, so maybe an LLM can write custom functionality on demand. That's the experiment, to see if you can... - Source: Hacker News / 17 days ago
Typora - A minimal Markdown reading & writing app.
Notion - All-in-one workspace. One tool for your whole team. Write, plan, and get organized.
Zettlr - Write Markdown documents with a comprehensive GUI and many workflow/time management tools.
Joplin - Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.
StackEdit - Full-featured, open-source Markdown editor based on PageDown, the Markdown library used by Stack Overflow and the other Stack Exchange sites.
Logseq - Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base.
