Use a custom domain on Protonmail (which includes Simplelogin) and you won’t have any issues. It’s a grand total of $5 per year for the domain.

Have you got an example I can test? I switched to Firefox mobile over a year ago and I can’t think of any time I’ve come across a site that didn’t work.

If you use Cryptomator (free and open source), you can transparently encrypt all your data before it arrives in the cloud.

https://cryptomator.org/

There’s no reason to pay for sync. As your vault is plain-text files you can use dozens of existing sync solutions.

There’s an open-source community sync plugin which aims to provide an equivalent replacement to the paid sync: https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync

I’m happily syncing my vault with Drive, and also paying for the sync as a way to support the Obsidian app development.

While I agree that this post seems like a giant spammy ad, you don’t have to provide anything personal to Kagi. You can pay with crypto rather than card - I paid using Monero via a swap service.

Wise does not have the same. Here’s my EU card page: https://i.imgur.com/yvrUSvq.png

They offer virtual cards, but not one-time-use cards. It’s a big difference in safety.

In fact, apart from just finding out about privacy.com (only available in the US), I’m not aware of anybody except Revolut who offers one-time-use cards.

e: If you know how to do it with Wise, please let me know. (Virtual cards which can be deleted after use are not the same as one-time cards.)

If you’re in the EU, Revolut is better than Wise because they have one-time-use virtual cards. As soon as the transaction is made, the number can’t be used again.

In Logseq, everything is a nested list. This feels like a limitation, but I’ve been preferring it. The decision is made for you: you’re going to jot this information down as a list. So then you just start writing it.

I really appreciate you posting this. I’m a long-time Obsidian user, and an Evernote user before that, and I never “got” Logseq. I just couldn’t understand what people saw in an app that didn’t let you “write” anything. I’ve tried to start using Logseq so many times and just given up because the interface made no sense.

Thanks to your comment I finally get it! I prefer to be using something open-source, so I’m going to give Logseq another go, now that I finally understand it, and see how that approach feels.

Obsidian, Zettlr, and Logseq live in the category of local plain-text file-based PKMs.

Trilium lives in the category of local database-based PKMs.

The reason the first category exists is that people wanted to get out of vendor and file lock-in.

Apples and oranges.

Having been through the enshitification of Obsidian, it was important to me and many others to be not beholden to any vendor’s file system. Your database requires Trilium to be instantly usable. My notes are useful and usable (and frequently accessed) from Logseq and VSCode.

The two options are simply not comparable, hence apples and oranges.

Not relevant to you, but relevant to others who might require local plaintext files, rather than a database.

Which brings us right back to apples and oranges 😘

You’re describing now a larger scope of requirement

I am not. I am saying data storage format is a basic, critical factor. And it is. And I already know you agree on this, which is why you choose FOSS options with known, open formats.

Lmao. No, I don’t agree that file format is the most critical choice

Local vs web-hosted, or open formats vs closed formats are part of the exact same choice. So I think you probably do agree that it’s a critical, basic component of your software decision. 😉

Yes obsidian supports various linking formats, but mainly uses its own.

But it doesn’t. The only two options are Wikilinks or original Markdown.

The only software that I’m aware of that is in the same camp as Obsidian - plaintext Markdown files and non-outliner - is Zettlr.

this is just a silly assertion to make.

It’s the most critical, most basic factor in determining what software to choose. I am specifically using software that works on plain-text Markdown files for many reasons, least of all that I need other software to be able to interact with those files. You can’t do that with Trilium.

Secondly, Obsidian does not use its own linking system, it supports both the widely used Wikilinks system and the DaringFireball/CommonMark markdown system.

Come on. At least have knowledge about the software you are trying to criticise.

But Trillium is not plain-text Markdown, so you’re comparing apples to oranges. They’re completely different approaches at their most base level.

Having been through the enshitification of Obsidian, it was important to me and many others to be not beholden to any vendor’s file system. Trilium notes require Trilium to be instantly usable. My notes are useful and usable in Obsidian, Logseq, VSCode, and others, because they use plaintext Markdown files.

Joplin stores its files inside a database. Obsidian stores all notes as individual plaintext Markdown files.

In the first instance, that’s clearly more future-proof and robust - your notes are immediately available in any application without a layer of abstraction. You can’t have a single file corrupt and destroy all your notes.

I vastly prefer it for that reason. I want to know these notes are still going to work fine in 10 years, and be easily accessible.

Many thanks for your reply. I’m a Guardian subscriber so I have a vested interest in knowing they have an appropriate stance on this.

I haven’t noticed a transphobic attitude in their journalism (International edition). Not to say it doesn’t exist, but I haven’t yet encountered it.

I would be a bit hesitant about forming an opinion based on “opinion” pieces, in the Guardian or any publication. They’re as worthless as the bytes they’re printed on, and in the main rambling and painful to read. My take on opinion pieces (in any paper) is that they’re not necessarily representative of the views of the publication, and are frequently more negatively emotive than what an actual article would be.

Thank you for your reply, it is appreciated.

Oh thank god. I’m on the $10 plan and I wasn’t using it on mobile because it’s so easy to hit 1000 searches on desktop.

That limit is just something that always hangs around at the back of your mind and you had to keep remembering to use Google for currency or unit conversions etc.

Now I can just use Kagi 👍

I wanted to know your perspective, and you told me to read the articles as they contained your perspective.

If you’d rather give me your perspective on HeartyBeast’s comment than make me guess by playing 20 questions, it would really help things. I would much prefer that.

If you don’t agree with the article, then why tell me to read them to get your perspective 😖

I’m doing my best based on the information you’ve given me.

Ok. Your first linked article is taking issue with the Guardian for saying “If a lesbian only desires same-sex dates that’s not bigotry, it’s her right”.

Your position is that you disagree with the Guardian here?

Oof. Wasn’t asking for a debate, simply asked your perspective.

You know I’m not “HeartyBeast”, right?