Back when I was looking for a new PKM system, I remember a "competitor" (now irrelevant) of obsidian making fun via Quote tweet of the Files over app manifesto, saying something like "nobody cares about the way the notes are stored". Ironically, that mean-spirited tweet made me discover Obsidian, and I've adopted it since then as I strongly agree with the philosophy of sovereignty over the content by them being plain files.

I do care about how files are stored, felt trapped with OneNote proprietary format, and seeing what happens to Evernote, now care even more.

More recently, Andrej Karparthy succinctly captured what's great about Obsidian: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1761467904737067456

And with the new LLM powered, I find having tight control over files to be extremely powerful

Thank you kepano!