[victorp13]

Tried both for quite some time, Obsidian has better community plugin support, better sync (paid) and stores plain text files instead of using a DB. Most importantly the mobile app (at least for iOS) of Obsidian is 1:1 with the desktop app.

Switched from Joplin to Obsidian and haven't looked back. Both apps are great initiatives though!

[andrewshadura]

Joplin also uses plain text files.

[pantulis]

Does it reflect notebooks/folder structure also in the filesystem? That's exactly what I need from a PKM tool: that not only the files but also the structure of the notebooks is reflected in the filesystem so I can have interoperability. This way I can decide to work with Obsidian, EagleFiler, Notebooks.app or DEVONthink while also having the possiblity of using the regular Finder to work with my files.

[hnaccount141]

The data itself is plaintext, but it's stored in a sqlite db rather than directories of markdown files on disk.