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> I assume that many of the plugins that power users use involve added non-standard stuff to the files. Like if you're adding a bunch of metadata to be consumed by the Dataview plugin, all that metadata might be worthless on a new app ...

The metadata is YAML frontmatter. Works with any frontmatter aware tools, which includes, for example, most static site generators.

It's all just markdown, the plugins layer on top of Markdown.

Your site basically works if you shove it in GitHub pages. With a touch of config matching, you can open an Obsidian "vault" in the VSCode plugin called Foam (like Roam but for a local folder structure of Markdown files).

Most add ons, like, say, Excalidraw for charting, are themselves tools with plugins in GitHub Pages, Hugo, MkDocs, etc., so are portable for static site gen (SSG).

The only thing it seems to be "missing" is the CRDT style multiplayer live editing of tools like Notion or Craft.




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