I’m mulling in my brain about a new blogpost. On how I think Obsidian is the more modern successor of Emacs. Based on extensibility, openness, community etc. I still need to think things through. If you have first thoughts on this, let me know!

@frank that’s a good take but a key element is that Obsidian is not free software. And on top of that the target audience is different. I am not an emacs user so I am not sure if the communities can be compared.

@frank I think in order to be able to compare them both need to be equally free as in freedom. I can modify emacs in ways that are impossible to do in obsidian and I think that creates a different type of community around them. Regarding the audience, I think obsidian is more focused on knowledge while emacs is a full editor experience that can be use for knowledge management among other things like programming or reading emails. It’s like comparing Office with Notepad++, both are great but Office offers way more solutions than Notepad++. imho.