Sure, but then it's not my "trusted system". I have note and to-do apps so that I can get things out of my head and be confident that they're stored somewhere I'll be able to retrieve them later. If I have to think about it whatsoever, then my brain will hold onto those thoughts because it's worried they'll be lost forever.
I completely agree. However, I don’t believe there is a foolproof product. The only reason I use Logseq over Obsidian is due to its FOSS nature. If Obsidian was open source, I would switch.
I used to use Notion, but moved to Logseq after searching for an open source alternative.
I can't fault you for that. For me, Obsidian feels like it's in an uncanny valley: it looks like both FOSS (free to download, use, whatever) and proprietary (you don't have the code), and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop ("now that we're out of beta, that'll be $300 per year"). That'll probably never happen, and they've been a pretty good group so far, but it could.
I'm going for a different approach. All my docs are stored as Markdown in iCloud, and I use iA Writer to edit them. It's a proprietary app, but one with an exception track record of "buy once, use forever". It's a native app, too, unlike a lot of the alternatives. And if iA Writer ever explodes, all my files are right there in glorious plaintext. I could do, and have done, the same with Obsidian, but I just like using Writer more.
The only database-backed app I've ever completely trusted is Drafts. Yes, my data is stored in its proprietary system. However, it exports the data regularly to a JSON backup file that's trivially easy to parse. It's also never, not once, ever, lost a single byte I've put in it. That little app's bulletproof.
That’s completely fair. I think that the fact that all files are in plain-text significantly reduces the negatives of Obsidian being proprietary. Earlier today I was thinking of switching to Obsidian. However, I don’t see the benefit over Logseq, which I’m somewhat accustomed to.
For me, the only reason I don’t love Logseq is its lack of a web app or PWA.
