First post 
Very glad to be here, and I have the feeling that Obsidian may be the answer that I have been looking for, for quite some time…
Basically, I have been using StackEdit as my “distributed” Markdown editor for about a decade now, and it has met most of my needs (cross-platform; backed up to my Google Drive, etc). I run StackEdit on my iPad, Mac and Chromebook; I’ve also used Byword on iPad and iPhone for some Markdown writing, and Byword backs up to iCloud and Dropbox.
However, I’ve become increasingly concerned about StackEdit’s longer-term viability (and Byword’s, to a lesser extent), and am looking to move on. In particular, SE is Web-based, and appears to have stopped being developed some time ago. I am especially worried in case SE just disappears one day, and I would then have no way of extracting my Markdown documents from the SE “vault” in Google Drive. (I could self-host SE in Docker, but that really doesn’t feel like a practical option.)
To cut a long story short: after searching for a while for an alternative (Dillinger was perhaps closest, but I’d have to host it somewhere), I stumbled across Obsidian, and it looks pretty much ideal:
- cross-platform (I use iPhone, iPad, Mac and Chromebook);
- syncs between Obsidian apps on different OSes (a must);
- powerful and extendable (plugins);
- well-supported and unlikely to just disappear
I’m probably going to cough up for Obsidian Sync, so I can just get on with “moving into” the system (and migrating my StackEdit - and maybe Byword - MD docs).
Has anyone else here moved from StackEdit to Obsidian, and if so, do you have any tips which I might like to be aware of?
Many thanks, and I’m looking forward to settling into the new neighbourhood