About the survival of our Data ( when Apps die )

Posted by MadaboutDana
Jul 3, 2025 at 08:20 AM

Yep, agreed – and that’s why I now use Obsidian exclusively for all my PKM needs. Everything saved out in text (markdown), excellent tools for web clipping (Obsidian’s own, plus plugins like e.g. Slurp – and others), totally cross-platform (works very well on mobile), and thanks to constellation of plugins, hugely flexible.

And it looks nice (unlike VIM)!!!

Coupled with the outstanding plugin “Various Complements” (a ridiculous name for something so powerful), which (a) suggests words as you’re typing but far more importantly, (b) suggests links to notes in your Vault as you’re typing – in a pleasant, unobtrusive way – Obsidian is also the perfect Zettelkasten solution. Again, there are other plugins which offer “classical” Zettelkasten functionality (numbered/dated/timed notes, etc.), but I prefer the enormous flexibility provided by Various Complements.

There is even a growing number of non-Obsidian-proprietary syncing solutions.

And if Obsidian eventually dies, well, that’d be tragic, but all my data would still be accessible. Giving me a good excuse to turn to another favourite app (desktop only, alas): Octarine, which I use to edit my personal notes on our Nextcloud system.

Cheers!
Bill