I just wish it was open source. I love everything else about it pretty much.

I love that I can dump all my knowledge there and have it be easily searchable on my PC, phone, etc. I love that I can take notes, attach PDFs and images, or make my own canvases and excalidraw diagrams. It’s awesome and flexible.

I hate that it’s not FOSS. I appreciate that it’s an open format (plaintext Markdown files) and prefer closed app and open data to the reverse (Joplin is open source, but mangles notes into a database). I’m strongly considering giving logseq a try, but some of my favorite obsidian features have become a crutch that I don’t know if I want to live without.

I really just want it to be open source.

I also really missed the Outline feature of Logseq when using it. It’s hard to lose that.

I love how quickly I can get things done using keybindings (I use Vim in Obsidian) and how I can link everything together to really form a second brain with lots and lots of stuff all linked together nicely. I also love Obsidian Sync, I think it’s worth it.

I hate the unreasonably long startup time. It’s even worse on mobile as every time you open the app, it fully restarts, taking 10+ seconds. I’ve been trying to leave it open in the background but it’s muscle memory to close all apps immediately.

I also don’t like the lack of a good CAS plugin. I currently use mathpad which gets the job done but I often find myself tinkering with my input because mathpad sometimes just refuses to work properly. Maybe it approximates too much or sth but often times it just doesn’t calculate accurately, doesn’t solve equations properly, etc.