Is Obsidian any good compared to paid Standard Notes?
I think Standard Notes doesn’t have a ‘link to a local note’ function.
Is there any other good reason to use Obsidian?
They are too different apps and vs could not be applied here, imho. Obsidian vs Markor. Standard Notes vs something else.
I use SN and am just curious if it’s worth using both.
I don’t know about the quality of Obsidian, but I personally wouldn’t use it because it is closed source. However, that’s just my personal preference 
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Obsidian is absolutely different. It is very good markdown editor, not a typical notes app, but it is so powerful common person would not find it useful. While markdown language itself is phenomenal thing and Standard Notes do not support it, that does not mean Standard Notes is bad. I mentioned Markor, because it is also a notes app with markdown support (maybe think like Markor=Obsidian+Standard Notes-Shit), I use it daily and it is super awesome, while Standard Notes are just a simple notes app with some security features and online sync. Which is better? Markor is 200% better, but they do different tasks.
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The core difference is that StandardNotes is handy for quick notes, while Obsidian lets you build a personal knowledge base.
Obsidian is probably the cream of the crop when it comes to “PKM” - personal knowledge management.
Both are markdown, but Obsidian stores the markdown files on your device, SN syncs them to the cloud, encrypted with your password.
Obsidian has linking and backlinking, connecting your notes as a graph. You are essentially creating your own wikipedia.
If you pay for Obsidian’s sync solution or can stomach setting up your own, I’d recommend giving it a fair shake.
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Interesting. I only use SN to store some sensitive data behind a password on android, even if I use markdown it won’t show me anything. But I quickly found this How do I use Markdown in my notes? I did not even knew SN has extensions…
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“Any good” in what way? Privacy/security-wise, I think even now Standard Notes is on a different level to other notes apps. As a note-taking app? They’re different workflow-wise. Enough that the answer to which is better really depends on what exactly you’re looking for in one.
Hi I would like to know about Obsidian and STandardNotes I installed both of them, SN I already started using for journaling and before I buy a plan from SN is Obsidian better for Journaling and is it possible to encrypt Obsidian and also add a password like SN ?
Not sure if you’re still looking for a response.
is it possible to encrypt Obsidian and also add a password like SN ?
You technically can although it’ll always be a bit jankier than SN. That’s the reality of stitching together apps like that. Theoretically, you can place your vault in whichever encryption utility you like (Cryptomator, Veracrypt, a LUKS container, etc.).
In practice, it’s a bit annoying having to launch an app, type in your password, and then launch a separate app to start typing. And then when you’re done, you close your app, re-encrypt the container, and then close that.
As opposed to just launching and closing SN.
Is Obsidian better for Journaling?
It depends on what you mean by better. SN is better from a security standpoint, but for me, a big part of journaling is also the writing experience. And in that department, I find Obsidian to be a bit more frictionless UX-wise.
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I had to ditch Obsidian due to non-FOSS licensing (working at a job and they say no), so I use Joplin now. For basic use cases it’s a pretty close parity, but is lacking in the UX side compared to Obsidian.
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I really like Obsidian. It would be nice if it was open-source but the fact its all local markdown files would counteract my main worry for a notes app, being locked into a proprietary file format or losing data due to a provider shutting down. At least in my case, I’m usually concerned about open-sourceness from a practical side rather than an ethical side.
For me personally I find it very helpful to organize my notes in my various interests beyond what I was able to do with other more standard notes apps.
As far as encryption, by default it is stored on-device, so local FDE covers that end. I haven’t tried them all but since it is just local MD files any cloud storage or peer-to-peer synchronizing can cover that. They do have a cloud sync available for a cost, that can be end-to-end encrypted. Their apps and their sync service have both been audited by Cure53
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