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Local-first markdown knowledge base; your files, forever
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Obsidian is listed in notes & personal knowledge because it competes on utility: local-first markdown knowledge base; your files, forever. It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. Licensed Proprietary (free); pricing: free / paid sync & commercial, public. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.
Plain-text vault = zero lock-in; publicly refuses VC & ads
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