Agreed–that is one of the major advantages of markdown and why I use it for nearly all of my writing. But, I don’t want to use different apps for most of my writing. I find it more efficient (and I’m faster) if I master one app., keyboard shortcuts, features, etc., than switching apps depending on the device. This is why I find apps like Craft, iA Writer and Obsidian ideal–they work well on all of my devices. 
In my use case, less (app switching) is more.
That’s why I use iAWriter and have DT3 index those files.
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+1 for the TableFlip app.
It’s by the guys who do The Archive app.
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Thanks for the Yarle reference. My Evernote renewal date is imminent, and after toying with the idea for many years, I’m finally shutting down my account. This will be helpful!
I just did the Yarle export. Seemed to work mostly well. It put all my Evernote files (properly named) into one folder instead of matching the folders I had in Evernote. I’m just considering my next options.
I saw on YouTube that some people have a flat Obsidian structure and use tags and file name filters to substitute for folders. I need to explore if we have “smart folders” in Obsidian (which would be so nice).
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I’ve seen several new note-taking apps lately, and their distinguishing feature(s) look like they could have just been an Obsidian plugin. E.g. one had a graph view where you could click a node to “zoom in” to see related nodes.
There’s always room for competition, but so far I haven’t seen any real competition.
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I have tried almost all of them - I think there is one key distinguishing case where Obsdian does not work - publishing.
If your main audience for your notes is yourself, I do not think anything beats Obsidian.
If you want to share your notes with others - be it a small group of colleagues or family or to publish as a website or blog - then Obsidian seems to have an edge with its Publishing feature. But many of the most desirable Obsidian features, including Dataview, do not work with Publishing.
I am about to begin a project writing an academic monograph to be made available publicly. For this reason I am likely to go with MediaWiki. MediaWiki is a very stable/sophisticated app and there are numerous very inexpensive companies that host the software. And it is easy to tranfser the data from one host to another if needed.
If I am wrong and there is a way to use Dataview as a public-facing website/blog, I am all ears.
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