2 complaints - obsidian does not work for text files

[whyseparateaccount]

Should I be submitting this as a bug report?

Because obby’s website says it opens plain text files and it doesn’t.
I personally dislike markdown and think markdown is garbage. That’s my problem and no one else’s. But I do think that standard text is just the most powerful and reliable and should be the basis for most operations.

Secondly, asking me to make separate account for the forums is dumb.

problem

obby is misleading users. it literally does not work on plain text.

[ariehen]

Obsidian is a Markdown text editor/notebook. That’s what it says on the tin. There’s a FR here to support .txt files natively:

Support txt and other files, and handle them just as Markdown

This has been requested before: Handle (edit) other plain text file formats ( rmarkdown, tex, txt, code, etc ) The suggestion to use the txt-as-md plugin does not work too well: Interlinks between files don’t quite work, the graph does not work, etc. The main argument made in that forum post is also valid for me, i.e.: Interop with other tools, like Dokuwiki, nvAlt, whatever I can also add a few more reasons, like: For me, txt as file extension makes more sense, as it describes the content…

As for the separate accounts, the forum and billing/Sync/Publish/Commercial license accounts should be separate in my mind. Feel free to open a feature request if there isn’t one already.

[rigmarole]

@whyseparateaccount

obby is misleading users. it literally does not work on plain text.

I bought some peanut butter, but when I opened the jar, all it was was a bunch of peanuts crushed into a fine spreadable paste. So misleading…

Markdown is plain text. And it uses plain text characters to indicate to apps how it can display some formatting. Go ahead and try opening it up it any text editor.

If you are really committed to a .txt file extension in the filename of your files, there is a plugin for that. And if you really don’t like Markdown, there are lots of plain text editors to choose from.

[CawlinTeffid]

In addition to the other replies, nothing forces you to use Markdown formatting in Obsidian. You can just type a bunch of text without marking any of it as headings, lists, emphasis, etc. The only requirement is the .md filename extension (which as mentioned can be worked around, tho last I knew all of the methods had tradeoffs).