Built with tauri & rust, and is more performant, and doesn't rely on random contributions for basic things as plugins.
Disclaimer - I build it.
At the end of the day, you're just taking notes. If you write a journal, don't put it in something like Obsidian. Even Apple Notes is better (in security, privacy, etc) in this regards.
I use it to remember stuffs and classify important informations, for instance I had issue fo years with my government to end my enterprise. I made a note in obsidian « enterprise closure » and every time there was a mail, I would save it as pdf and import it into the note. Same for every letter, scan -> import. I could put out my thoughts, next step, … on the note.
Because it doesn’t crypt notes or attachments, spotlight can index my notes and I can still search for the attachments.
And the back links are just a bonus because you always end up having multiple side note linked to a main note.
I have yet to see another software that allows me to do these kind of things. Apple notes absolutely sucks on attachments.
Putting attachments in folder with notes at the top is hard to search, things always get lost or duplicated.
I believe there are companies tools for that kind of things like « SERM » but then obsidian just works and it’s free.
Point is, you don't need Obsidian (or all of its plugin). People have been making do with Dropbox and plain text (.txt) files perfectly fine for years.
