To answer your other question, actively using and maintaining my PIM since 2009.

I like Silverbullet, but I could never get the file tree to work well. Any tips? Or is that not a feature you use?

Who’s “they”, America? Everybody knows this…

I moved all my cloud computing from DO and Vultr to European owned options. It’s a small thing, but it’s about the only thing that I had been purchasing from the USA.

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Sounds like someone who is sensibly voting with their dollar. I’m not from USA or Canada, and I am doing the same.

It’s pretty identical there champ.

One of the benefits of Obsidian is that it stores its data in a format where you CAN use cli tools and python etc. That’s one of the reasons I’m using it myself.

It’s a different thing. What Obsidian and Logseq offer is plain-text markdown files in folders on your disk. Upnote and most of the other alternatives mentioned in this post store their data in a database.

Different thing altogether. Just depends what you’re looking for.

You only have to consider the plugin developers. Most of them would have the technical ability to do what you mention, but they prefer to use Obsidian instead. Clearly there’s a reason for that.

I assume this means free for local use? Not any kind of backups?

Why would they donate server space to you on top of giving you free (beer) software?

That’s literally what you said… ?? Or at least that’s how it reads to me and the previous commenter.

There are many apps that are great editors for this structure on every platform

And Obsidian is one of those apps 🤦 It’s has equal amount of “point” to all the other editors you think are somehow more valid - it’s just another editor.

Markdown has many more elements than bullet points

https://markdown-it.github.io/

Thank you, that’s what I had suspected, so I’m glad I wasn’t doing anything wrong.

The way I like to think is through long form writing and personal documentation, so I guess it’s not a good match for me.

In Obsidian I have a script that lets me know any notes that aren’t linked to anything else, so it means I have everything interlinked.

I think for some brains it just doesn’t click. How do you write a long form document? How would you write documentation? How would you write a blog post?

I tried for a while but I just couldn’t understand the concept of “Everything as an outline.”

It’s a very, very different approach having everything as a bullet point though.

Thank you - I really appreciate the thorough response, that is extremely helpful.

What’s one specific point that you think is an outright lie or has been gaslighted away? The linked post addressed my personal concerns, but I want to see if there’s something I missed.

This is largely circular logic. “It’s irrelevant what Kagi is doing, as long as I can trust what Kagi is doing.”

The problem is that you can never know what software a company is running in production. So for any service you don’t host yourself, at some point you have to just cross your fingers and hope.

We can certainly agree to disagree. I don’t encourage you to use Kagi - quite the opposite, I would say it is a terrible fit.

As I said in my original comment, I think it makes perfect sense to replace an itemised list - which needs to be constantly updated - with a generic “all major search engines” which covers everything.

If Yandex being removed isn’t an issue, then I’m not sure what could be termed as Proton being cagey.

For me, from a privacy perspective as a user it’s largely irrelevant what third-parties they use on the backend as long as my searches stay private.

Adding the statistics for third parties to their stats page would be neat from the user perspective, but I can’t imagine what value there would be in publishing that information from Kagi’s perspective.