Any alternatives to Obsidian that are not built on Electron?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/ObsidianMD

AppSignal - Monitoring that respects your time & budget
APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.
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  1. logseq

    A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.

    logseq - https://github.com/logseq/logseq/

  2. AppSignal

    Monitoring that respects your time & budget. APM, error tracking, and dashboards for modern web apps. Ten-minute setup, transparent flat pricing, and support from engineers who actually use the product.

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  3. Zettlr

    Your One-Stop Publication Workbench

    Zettlr - https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr

  4. zim-desktop-wiki

    Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project

    The old Zim Wiki app kind of works like Obsidian but it's an old app and lacks many Obsidian features. It uses local text files the way Obsidian does and it has the concept of bi-directional links in a very limited way. And it only works on desktop. But you can export your content into a functional HTML website.

  5. nb

    CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + more, in a single portable script.

    Depending on how minimal you want to go, nb is viable, but any “features” you’d have to script yourself. https://xwmx.github.io/nb/

  6. neorg

    Modernity meets insane extensibility. The future of organizing your life in Neovim.

    Or the neovim alternative Neorg

  7. talk

    Issues and discussions for the notes app, Nota. (by notaapp)

    i have no idea if its electron based but check this out → Nota - Pro notes app designed for local Markdown files.

  8. tauri

    Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop and mobile applications with a web frontend.

    There's absolutely no excuse to use Electron when Tauri exists. Unless you need a specific OS feature that Tauri doesn't support (there are a few) no one should use Electron.

  9. Kargo

    Stop Scripting Promotions. Start Shipping with Kargo. Kargo automates promotion across dev, staging, and prod with approval gates and verification. Open source, built by the team behind Argo CD. Download now.

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