That’s a totally valid approach, and hey, if you want to move back (or across) ti whatever tool after all, they all support ingesting or using markdown, anyway, so no loss.

Search, ordering, crosslinking, embedding or at least adding additional formats, easily sharing notes if you have the server going, web clipper, and so on.

It’s correct though, isn’t it? And sure, it’s free and open, and it allows you to do things that are hard/slow/impossible with just a bunch of markdown files, but it is an extra layer, and one that’s more difficult than just opening a plaintext file.

AFAIK, the Joplin lead dev is using slop machines as well, or anyway endorses it. It’s what drove me away.

I’ve been a Joplin user for years, looked at Trilium once or twice, but the complexity and (iirc) database-backed storage kinda kept me away. The latter also always slightly irked me about Joplin, but at least you can export the whole notebook to markdown.

Which I did, when Joplin declared slop contributions OK (and a bunch of plugins were also on the slop teat, and you kind of need plugins). Then I started up SilverBullet and I haven’t looked back.

In terms of “I want an alternative for Obsidian” I think it might actually come closest.

A mild nausea, usually.

“Do we have a spare? We don’t? Tch, unfortunate.”

Slop and spam in one project, that’s going to go over well in these parts…

He’s just very excited!

Well, that was a fun watch. Thanks for the link!