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You're not really missing anything — for most of us the graph view is a cool demo you open twice and never again. Honest answer: plain .md in a git repo is the correct move if you're comfortable in vim. The only things you give up are a quick fuzzy-search UI and zero-friction access from a machine that doesn't have your dotfiles — and that gap is basically the entire reason lightweight note apps exist. I ended up building a tiny one (9Notes) for exactly that middle ground: markdown + instant search + autosave, but it's just a browser tab — no vault, no $4/month, no sync service to trust. If git+vim already works for you though, genuinely, keep the four bucks.
In today's edition of "things that I don't see the point of", I've been looking at Obsidian today, after hearing more than one person say that it's great for note taking. I use IA Writer sometimes, and I enjoy it, and I was kind of expecting something similar, but more geared toward notes and development type stuff. There are some nice graph-visual type things, and the ability to hyperlink notes together. It seems nice.
So after using it for an hour, I have to wonder why I wouldn't just make a private git repo full of .md files, and save myself four bucks per month? I get my "private vault", vim keybinds, and all of that good stuff without getting another application. Not trying to shit all over obsidian, I know it has fans, but am I missing something?
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