Likewise, I keep running into irritations with Obsidian. An example is the inability to manually sort documents. This forces me to use a numbering system in file names. If I get deep into a hierarchy and need to make a change I have to renumber the file names. That is a pain. There are other irritations that I’ll not elaborate on here.
I’d already relegated Obsidian to research and writing (not using it for work notes). I’m considering, cautiously, moving my writing projects and research out of Obsidian and into Craft. Although I prefer to work with plain text files directly in iCloud, I feel perfectly “safe” with everything in Craft because I can export any/all files from Craft into a multitude of formats–and there are more formats coming. In a prior post I thought I’d settled on Obsidian over Craft but I’m rethinking this, especially with extensions coming to Craft—that was not on my radar when I went all in with Obsidian.
Additionally, Craft has footnotes on the features to be added list (don’t know when) but in the meantime I can add those as comments, export all to Word then when ready I can finish adding/consolidating footnotes, endnotes and other references in Word for final publication. I think this may be worth experimenting with for a while to see how this affects my workflow.
It would be nice to consolidate nearly all text-based work into a single native application. I should add that my experiment using Apple Notes did not succeed. I was hoping to rely on default applications (Notes/Reminders) but I found it too complicated to get links to notes, there is no back linking, and export format options are extremely limited, to name a few limitations.