In the past I’d recommended Trilium Notes as a good FLOSS alternative to Obsidian for a note taking database app, but unfortunately today after failing to restore a trilium backup file to a new install, and finding that the documentation on backups isn’t accurate (as in, there are not buttons in the app that the documentation claims are there, and nothing I have tried has worked to restore the backup), I discovered on the github a Claude.md in the repository, and the commit history shows that in the past few months Claude has become one of the most prolific contributors on the project.

If anyone is using this app based on my previous recommendation, I’d personally suggest migrating to a different note-taking app that isn’t vibe-coded (and exports backups to plain text, instead of some database format), perhaps CherryTree?

  • nothingcorporate@lemmy.today
    3·
    18 hours ago

    The plugin ecosystem of Obsidian is hard to beat. Now if a FLOSS app could figure out how to be compatible with Obsidian plugins…

    • doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de
      2·
      11 hours ago

      It’s correct though, isn’t it? And sure, it’s free and open, and it allows you to do things that are hard/slow/impossible with just a bunch of markdown files, but it is an extra layer, and one that’s more difficult than just opening a plaintext file.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      1·
      19 hours ago

      I’ve never interacted with database software directly before, I wouldn’t have the expertise to tell the difference between any database formats without doing some research.

  • Ahrotahntee@lemmy.caEnglish
    55·
    2 days ago

    Well that’s a shame. The developer considered it (approximately) feature complete and handed it off to a collection of devs for maintenance and this what they did with it?

  • doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de
    9·
    1 day ago

    I’ve been a Joplin user for years, looked at Trilium once or twice, but the complexity and (iirc) database-backed storage kinda kept me away. The latter also always slightly irked me about Joplin, but at least you can export the whole notebook to markdown.

    Which I did, when Joplin declared slop contributions OK (and a bunch of plugins were also on the slop teat, and you kind of need plugins). Then I started up SilverBullet and I haven’t looked back.

    In terms of “I want an alternative for Obsidian” I think it might actually come closest.

  • bookmeat@fedinsfw.appEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    I moved to Outline. The worst part of Trilium was that it didn’t easily support copy paste of markdown which I heavily rely on. Outline is pretty great by comparison.

  • Kissaki@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 days ago

    Well, shit. I only recently started using Trilium. If it were only some Claude commits, I would probably ignore it. But with your documented bad/issue experience, I guess I’ll seek alternatives.

  • nfreak@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Yeah I’ve been using this for a while and it’s noticeably gone to shit recently. This would certainly explain it. Time to find an alternative

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netOPEnglish
      16·
      2 days ago

      Unfortunately Logseq also has a claude section in their github, so they are using LLM’s too, though I do not know to what extent (the cloude bot has few direct commits, but the devs could be using it for their own pull requests).

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      How does the community feel about Joplin? I tried out Logseq a few times, but always went back to Joplin for whatever reason.

    • lazylemons@lemmy.today
      41·
      2 days ago

      Recently made that switch myself. I have to say I do miss a lot of features from Obsidian, but I do appreciate the effort that goes into logseq and think it will continue to improve.

  • heliotrope@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    I gave up on notes platforms like this a couple of years ago. I just have a bunch of well-sorted Markdown files that I edit with nano on desktop and Markor on mobile.

    • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
      2·
      17 hours ago

      I’m wondering why I don’t do the same. I write all my notes using Markdown syntax anyway, have Syncthing set up to sync, and am comfortable with raw text editors on every platform. Why am I even bothering with the likes of Joplin? What benefit is that even providing me?

      • doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        10 hours ago

        Search, ordering, crosslinking, embedding or at least adding additional formats, easily sharing notes if you have the server going, web clipper, and so on.

        • SatyrSack@quokk.auEnglish
          2·
          9 hours ago

          Those are all either features of the text editors I am used to using or features that I just don’t care about. I am just going to switch to manually managing a synchronized folder of *.md files for a while and determine if I want to switch back.

          • doenietzomoeilijk@discuss.tchncs.de
            1·
            7 hours ago

            That’s a totally valid approach, and hey, if you want to move back (or across) ti whatever tool after all, they all support ingesting or using markdown, anyway, so no loss.

  • uninvitedguest@piefed.caEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    I wanted to like Trillium, and was even willing to forgoe the database style back-end… But it can’t even handle markdown style notes and previews as graciously as Obsidian.