I’ve been using Obsidian for a while and donated and subscribed, but it’s losing momentum in my workflow. It irks me that all new files are always in the root; there’s ways round it but that requires more set up. It also irks me on ios that the explorer easily drifts left and right. I also don’t like the lack of native integration and keyboard shortcuts out of the box.
At the start of this year I dusted off my Emacs installation and upgraded to Doom. As much as markdown is ubiquitous it’s never worked for me in a work environment because of poor exporting. Business reports that need headers footers and logos are a disaster. Even in marked2 the pagination has issues. Orgmode in Emacs does all this. Admittedly a high learning curve but robust.
In the end I’m realising I want obsidian to do what emacs orgmode does and it’s nowhere near. The only thing obsidian has going for it for me is its ios app, but Beorg on ios has come a long way and is quite useable.
Even with the linking, apart from the fact that orgmode does this easily, the search showing every line in every doc with your search criteria almost makes it obsolescent.
It’s all making me wonder if obsidian will be in my workflow at the start of 2023.