In today's edition of "things that I don't see the point of", I've been looking at Obsidian today, after hearing more than one person say that it's great for note taking. I use IA Writer sometimes, and I enjoy it, and I was kind of expecting something similar, but more geared toward notes and development type stuff. There are some nice graph-visual type things, and the ability to hyperlink notes together. It seems nice.

So after using it for an hour, I have to wonder why I wouldn't just make a private git repo full of .md files, and save myself four bucks per month? I get my "private vault", vim keybinds, and all of that good stuff without getting another application. Not trying to shit all over obsidian, I know it has fans, but am I missing something?