I love the idea of building a bespoke notes app for myself, but then again if I had the time and energy I’d probably build my own everything simply because it’s interesting and it feels like there’s unharvested low-hanging fruit in terms of UX improvements across just about all software categories.
Until then though, I’ll be keeping the tinkering to a minimum. Honestly speaking I could probably get by just fine with Sublime Text, a folder full of markdown files, and Syncthing… the main attractions of Obsidian, etc are little QoL features like separate fonts for prose and code.
I think you described the problem very well: the premise behind PKM/note taking is to boost productivity. If you assume this to be true, the only way to be productive is to stop tweaking endlessly and accept the limitations of your tooling
Until then though, I’ll be keeping the tinkering to a minimum. Honestly speaking I could probably get by just fine with Sublime Text, a folder full of markdown files, and Syncthing… the main attractions of Obsidian, etc are little QoL features like separate fonts for prose and code.