<story><title>Write plain text files</title><url>https://sive.rs/plaintext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elteto</author><text>This is one of the main strengths of Obsidian, which I have been using lately and I’m extremely happy with: everything is just Markdown files in some folder on disk. Zero danger of lock in.&lt;p&gt;You can have a disk hierarchy if you desire, or trust that search will find you what you are looking for. For me search works fairly well and if I need something extra I can just grep&amp;#x2F;sed&amp;#x2F;awk.&lt;p&gt;Plus it has the features that a simple text editor will not have: displaying images, live preview, relationships between topics, etc. It even has a Vim mode!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nextos</author><text>I use org-mode the same way. I have a flat directory with many small files, inspired by Zettelkasten and by simple wikis. No server, no dependencies.&lt;p&gt;This also works well for small organizations. Both GitHub and GitLab are able to render org files, with some minor limitations. Hence, a simple repository full of org files is already a wiki. Even local links just work, with zero dependencies.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s possible to transform org files into HTML with some CI task to get support for all org features. But I have found this a bit of an overkill. I don&amp;#x27;t need most org features. The basics are already great: outlines, timestamps, hyperlinks, tables and footnotes.&lt;p&gt;You can achieve more or less the same things with Markdown as well.</text></comment>
<story><title>Write plain text files</title><url>https://sive.rs/plaintext</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>elteto</author><text>This is one of the main strengths of Obsidian, which I have been using lately and I’m extremely happy with: everything is just Markdown files in some folder on disk. Zero danger of lock in.&lt;p&gt;You can have a disk hierarchy if you desire, or trust that search will find you what you are looking for. For me search works fairly well and if I need something extra I can just grep&amp;#x2F;sed&amp;#x2F;awk.&lt;p&gt;Plus it has the features that a simple text editor will not have: displaying images, live preview, relationships between topics, etc. It even has a Vim mode!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sylens</author><text>This is exactly why I switched to Obsidian after trying a few others like Bear, Notion, and Craft. Let me see the files on disk! Don&amp;#x27;t abstract it away or hide it from me.</text></comment>