An Open Letter to the Obsidian Team
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The author writes an open letter to the Obsidian team, sharing their thoughts on the product and suggesting improvements, with the community showing interest and appreciation for the feedback.
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I had maybe 10 plugins and they managed to step all over each other. One would break sync, another would break some theme and so on. There is nothing to ensure they play nice with the system itself, let alone anything malicious as you pointed out. From what I understand, there are people that have upwards of 50 plugins installed! They must never shut it down because it probably takes 20 minutes for it to start with that many plugins.
I will say that I am experimenting with various PKMS software. I am running SiYuan and it is has been very pleasant. I have only installed one plugin to make cool indexes on folders as folder notes. Everything else can be configured and used as is out of the box.
There are several others that I will try in the coming months as well. Anytype, Flusterapp, Joplin and Craft are going into my evaluation cue.