I'm with you. I think this should be a downloadable plugin, not a standard plugin.

I kind of wish they would slow down development and just polish what is already there. They are on this treadmill where they feel the need to keep adding new features, new maintenance burdens, bloating the product in every dimension.

In a few years somebody fresh will come along with a product that's a lightweight alternative. It sucks, but that seems to be the lifecycle of this kind of thing. For now, I've turned off automatic updates on Obsidian which isn't ideal either. :(

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theappsecguy 3 days ago | parent [-]

It is. You can disable it from core plugins. Obsidian has done more than anyone else for the PKM community without lock in, it’s quite disheartening to see so many complaints.

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criddell 3 days ago | parent [-]

I'm disheartened too because they have done so much and I'm happy to pay my annual fee, but it seems obvious that they are headed in a direction that isn't for me.

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whatevertrevor 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

What are you concerned about specifically? What bits of Obsidian should they work on polishing instead?

(not trying to be hostile, just curious as another Obsidian user who is excited by this feature because the current meta search functionality is really poor IMO and this is very much needed polish from my perspective)

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theappsecguy 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I think the core note taking is pretty solid, what do you think they should be doing instead? I do think search can be improved, as well as keyboard centric flows and native pdf annotations. But aside from polishing, is there much missing from the app core features?

	▲	criddell 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think the app might be complete and that's not a bad thing. Obsidian doesn't need to become Notion. They probably have lots of ideas for new products. They could start working on a follow up product or service.