If the owner of the standard notes will now be a proton, doesn’t that contradict this principle? I have a proton email account but I don’t want it linked to my standard notes account. I don’t strongly trust companies that offer packaged services like google or Microsoft. I prefer to have one service from one company. I am afraid that now I will have to change where I save my notes. What do you guys think about this?
Thanks for the detailed answer! I was aware of the community plugins (and I’m very pleased Obsidian isn’t trying to sell them to anyone) but wasn’t sure if there was anything else going on under the hood… Plugin configuration definitely makes sense.
And gives me an excuse to start exporting the stuff I’ve got in my local Standard Notes instance too. I like their interface, but their mobile clients kept throwing me out by switching to the default server, and the web client disabled non-official synching too, so I’m starting to like the idea of having an actual copy of the notes rather than hoping SN doesn’t have another fit.
Again, depending on your needs perhaps Logseq is fine. It seems that developers of each app (Logseq and Obsidian namely) have this expectation of how users want to use their apps but in my experience they are both configurable to use Tags, Folders or Links to organise content. This lets you take notes and organise in several ways.
Logseq is FOSS, Obsidian is not and is more popular (thus larger community plugins/themes ecosystem). That’s the main difference.
I would love for someone to walk me around what SN can do and walk someone around what Obsidian can do.