Dear Obsidian community,
I have very basic newbie question.
I am looking for a new digital system for my notes, Obsidian seems fitting all my demands.
Very important to me is that I can rely on a very long term availability of the tool/software so that I can use it over a decade time scale.
Since obsidian seems to be developed and maintained by I relatively small team can I be sure that it will be working and available also in ten or fifteen years?
Thanx!
No, you can’t be sure and I wouldn’t rely on it being available in a decade from now.
BUT since you’re not locked in a proprietary file format but Obsidian notes are simple text files there is a good chance you can migrate them into a new system if you need one. And you absolutely will be able to access these files in 15 years.
You need to be a little careful with additional plugins though. Dataview for example displays information from your vault but doesn’t actually write it into your notes. That doesn’t mean it hurts to use Dataview but be aware that these queries would be useless without Obsidian.
Thanx for your helpful answer!
How could I get an impression of future perspectives and development of Obsidian? I am lacking a feeling for risk and potential to put lots of time and effort in notes with Obsidian…of course I always can access my .md files but what’s that worth without a proper “notes browser” such as obsidian?
Are there competitors or .md/.text based alternatives to obsidian?
Obsidian has a great community, this indicator is much more important than a small team, also i love how Obsidian is expandable with Plugins, bc this way it does not turn into a “commercial bloatware”
will it really be forever?
We hope so. We get this question from time to time and I don’t really know what to answer.
I don’t even know if anybody can answer this question about anything.
The markdown format is open.
Since obsidian seems to be developed and maintained by I relatively small team can I be sure that it will be working and available also in ten or fifteen years?
Can you provide some quantifiable characteristics of software that you are confident will be actively maintained in 10 years?
Can you provide some example of software/company that satisfies your previously defined characteristics?
Obsidian definitely won’t last forever, but your markdown notes created with Obsidian certainly will last for a long time. Just don’t become too reliant on plug-ins and try to use real Markdown over plug-in-reliant syntax for the body of a note (dataview queries and such are okay, as they’re just code blocks that can be removed later on. But if you’re using the comments plug-in or complex flexdown layouts, which directly affect the note body, that might get tedious to clean up once Obsidian is gone.
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