md.obsidian.Obsidian VS cMenu-Plugin

My Flatpak version was updated the same day. Very impressive.

I tried flatpak command line instructions as mentioned here but that too giving error

There are Linux solutions to this, macOS makes apps request permissions to important folders/ full disk access, any operating system should let you run something as a locked-down user without read/write access to your important files, etc. Installing Obsidian on Linux using flatpak or recent macOS + a firewall would let you manage a lot of the risks there, for example.

If you want simple markdown notes I recommend Paper, for to-do lists a good option is Endeavour, and there is third option, Obsidian, I don't use it because it feels complex, but maybe you will like it

Is that not this? https://flathub.org/apps/details/md.obsidian.Obsidian

It's probably best to open an issue here to ask what's going on if you're interested: https://github.com/flathub/md.obsidian.Obsidian/issues

You can check in github repo how a flatpak package is done. Here is how Obsidian is done. If you don't like any permission, you change it through flatseal app or command line. Most gnome apps and apps that follows gnome HIG are maintained by the official developers themselves. Valve, Mozilla are maintaining their respective products.

A simple formatting bar: https://github.com/chetachiezikeuzor/cMenu-Plugin

You’re welcome! Check out this plugin as well. It hasn’t been added to the official plugins list within the app so downloading it might be a bit more challenging. In this case you could turn the plugin that inspired it but unfortunately seems to be no longer maintained: link

You could go to options -> core plugins and enable the "Slash commands" plugin. There's also this community plugin that adds a text editor modal.

There are some plugins like cmenu to add some click-based formatting, or customizable menu that can add them into right-click menus.

Have you tried the cMenu plugin?

Templater lets you insert templates with custom keyboard shortcuts. CMenu adds a small menu at the bottom of the screen that you can fill with any command in Obsidian, including custom ones added by Templater.

I think there's no toolbar, only WYSIWYG. There are plugins that help with this, like: Markdown Formatting Assitant and CMenu. i know that a plugin doesn't solve the issue, there's a post in the Obsidian Forum talking about this.