Obsidian alternatives

alternatives to Obsidian¶

• noteshub (paid) noteshub whiteboard
  • kanban
  • whiteboard
  • write notes
  • music notes
• Zim wiki
• Standard Notes
• https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/videos
  • looks cool, nice and simple
  • open source
  • uses markdown, compatible with obsidian
    • official post with recap
    • video discussing this topic
      • obsidian better for long docs
      • loqsec has block based approach (reference other notes)
    • TODO change default behavior for obsidian to support loqsec
      • default location new notes: folder “pages”
      • default location new daily notes: folder “journals” YYY_MM_DD
      • forum post with more info
• https://www.qownnotes.org/
  • markdown
  • open source
  • great docs
    • PR merged in supports wiki link
• https://caret.io/
  • markdown
  • nice minimal UI

• markor android

  • android only
  • markdown

• org-roam

• https://www.zettlr.com/

VS code plugins¶

• Foam
  • get started article
  • VS code plugin
  • technical GitHub page template
• https://github.com/svsool/memo
• dendron, visual studio plugin 🔥, dendron wiki, git ⭐5k
  pros:
  • markdown
  • wiki links
  • supports several vaults, and remote vaults!
  • can be edited on git, reflected in the wiki
  • supports publish to GitHub
    cons:
  • table with metadata at top of every post ? example
  • seems to add metadata to notes

rejected¶

• mindforger
  • markdown
  • crap UI
• Trilium is a open source local SQL database. everything lives in 1 file.
  • bad to store on git, but could live in a SQL backup?
• https://nota.md/
  • mac only
  • not released
  • wikilink
• typora
  • no wiki links, see doc

this article talks about advantage of markdown, and several apps

great discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29996714
see https://toolfinder.co/lists/best-pkm-apps

Backlinks¶

• ZimWiki
  • Obsidian alternatives
• logseq & obsidian img embed
  • more on Obsidian alternatives