Recently stumbled upon this note-taking app called SiYuan, but it honestly looks a bit too good to be true(?). Has anyone here used it or got any experience with it? Trying to replace Obsidian is a difficult task, and I’ve been through almost all note-taking apps there are out there, however this one looks fairly similar.

Link to Repo;

https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan

Link to project;

https://b3log.org/siyuan/en/

  • @morrowind@lemmy.ml
    9•8 months ago

    I’ve tried it on and off. It appears to have more potential than obsidian in some ways, but obsidian’s plain text files are hard to beat1. If you’re willing to put in more effort into your notetaking, especially if you’re a programmer, it may be worth it. It has nowhere near the plugin ecosystem at the moment obviously, not being as popular.

    Compared to logseq, which I haven’t tried super extensively, resource usage and performance are much better, on par with obsidian.

    Also a lot of the interface and plugins are in chinese, so if you don’t read that it can be a bit of a pain.

    [1] siyuan is markdown too but but it’s stored in a database, not your filesystem.

    • calm.like.a.bombEnglish
      12•8 months ago

      [1] siyuan is markdown too but but it’s stored in a database, not your filesystem.

      This is a hard pass for me, then. At the moment I’m using Silverbullet, which uses plain markdown files which I can also edit with my preffered editor in CLI.

    • Detective'OP
      8•8 months ago

      Thanks for the input! The fact that it doesn’t store the files in plain md files makes it a no go for me personally.