A Small Gripe about Obsidian

Obsidian is a note-taking app with a proprietary licence. This makes it prone to the usual abusive behaviours.

But I only hear good things about it:

Obsidian is ultimately just a markdown editor, so you can extract all of your notes in plain text any time you want, without fear of lock-in.

It sounds like the users are safe from having their notes held hostage by a sudden change in policy, sign-up services, free and paid tiers, et c., et c., ad AI.

It has a whole ecosystem of plug-ins and integrations, making concept maps, auto-updating links, creating websites from notes, and anything else you can imagine doing with markdown.

Okay, good...but you can't have both. The more plug-ins you rely on, the less portable it all is.

<== special plug-ins =============== X =============== portable ===>

You might take a middle-ground, but that doesn't sound like something which is portable and has a lot of great plug-ins; it functions as something which has a couple of plug-ins you rely on, but could also do without.

And (while I have you) the blogs and videos about Obsidian never fail to mention how many keyboard shortcuts it has, and how blazingly fast you can take notes once you stop using a mouse. Of course, that's true, and good. It just seems to strange to point to something with a couple of keyboard shortcuts, and shout 'wow, so fast, much more comfortable', in the same room as the older text editors, who went all-in on keyboards before anyone invented a mouse.