@steffo@fosstodon.org
Agreed, the plugins is what makes Obsidian so powerful. But in essence you can just use it like Joplin, without powerful plugins.
But yeah.. plugins.. :D
On the other hand, it doesn't make it that incompatible. Dataview is logical, you have key:: value, and that's all still readable and searchable without Dataview. Just no fancy lists anymore.