Awesome, thanks! I sense perhaps in your reply that you are (I hope) addressing the broader misconceptions about Obsidian and not just me, specifically. As I mentioned I use Obsidian (for about a year now), and in case it wasn't clear I'm a *huge* fan of it. I left Roam for Obsidian that year ago (with some brief flirtations with Logseq …
Awesome, thanks! I sense perhaps in your reply that you are (I hope) addressing the broader misconceptions about Obsidian and not just me, specifically. As I mentioned I use Obsidian (for about a year now), and in case it wasn't clear I'm a *huge* fan of it. I left Roam for Obsidian that year ago (with some brief flirtations with Logseq at the time), and overall I'm pretty satisfied with Obsidian for what it is.
I just really wanted to make sure that the performance results here were representative and that when they come up in the general TfT discussion there are not immediately dismissed by appeals to "it's not doing the same work!". Hopefully, thanks to your in-depth response, everyone now understands to what degree it is the same, and in what smaller ways it is different.
Based on your info here it really does sound like Obsidian is just a better-designed approach, at least *for today's capabilities*. I suspect Roam and/or Conor might argue that some hypothetical future meta-capability will be better enabled by the pure database back end vs. markdown-to-DB. But for doing (solo) work today Obsidian definitely presents a great experience!
Awesome, thanks! I sense perhaps in your reply that you are (I hope) addressing the broader misconceptions about Obsidian and not just me, specifically. As I mentioned I use Obsidian (for about a year now), and in case it wasn't clear I'm a *huge* fan of it. I left Roam for Obsidian that year ago (with some brief flirtations with Logseq at the time), and overall I'm pretty satisfied with Obsidian for what it is.
I just really wanted to make sure that the performance results here were representative and that when they come up in the general TfT discussion there are not immediately dismissed by appeals to "it's not doing the same work!". Hopefully, thanks to your in-depth response, everyone now understands to what degree it is the same, and in what smaller ways it is different.
Based on your info here it really does sound like Obsidian is just a better-designed approach, at least *for today's capabilities*. I suspect Roam and/or Conor might argue that some hypothetical future meta-capability will be better enabled by the pure database back end vs. markdown-to-DB. But for doing (solo) work today Obsidian definitely presents a great experience!