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I’ve been very much enjoying FSNotes [0] as a replacement for Notational Velocity (and nvALT) which are both abandonware at this point. FSNotes is a native app, is FLOSS and is actively maintained. It lacks some of the advanced features of Obsidian (like Graph View) but it has the essentials (hyperlinks and tag sidebar).

[0] https://fsnot.es/

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I switched from nVALT to FSNotes, and then to Obsidian. FSNotes was too buggy for me. In particular, I'd go to search for something and somehow after a few characters I was randomly typing in to some saved note. Obsidian has been excellent. I suggest dragging the "magnifying glass" icon to it's own "tab" so it's always visible (something I'm used to with nvALT / FSNotes).

I’ve filed bug reports and the FSNotes developer fixed them within days. I’ll take a look at Obsidian too, thanks!

I am still using nvALT and the application works despite the fact that it wasn't updated in years.

Funny personal fact is that I started to use nvALT after seeing it mentioned in a bad fiction book, one of those that you read because you get stuck somewhere and it's the only book available.

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