May 20, 2025
Ditching Obsidian and building my own amberwilliams.io
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I'm a heavy user and I'm happy. Syncing can be easily done for free, for example with Nextcloud. Paired with Nextcloud Notes, it gives me a well working mobile experience. And because Obsidian stores all notes in plaintext on the file system, it will be accessible even when Obsidian is gone.
The only thing I don't like about Obsidian is that it isn't Open Source. This is bad because should Obsidian vanish, so will the code.