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For folks that already use vscode, the selling point is being able to continue to use vscode for everything, code and markdown. VSCode has an editor experience that is hard to beat

(also, disclaimer: I'm the author of the article and founder of Dendron)

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> VSCode has an editor experience that is hard to beat

VS Code is a text-editor focused on coding. Obsidian is a markdown-editor focused on knowledge- and self-management. They are each hard to beat in their own specialty. For example, the WYSIWYG-Editor of obsidian is not something that VS Codes raw text-view can beat, especially if you combine it with add-ons for code-blocks.

The WYSIWYG part of obsidian can be somewhat replicated in VSCode by this obscure and community-neglected plugin [1]. Live math preview was the reason why I got this plugin, which works very unreliably, but for other markdown functions it's okay.

[0] https://github.com/tejasvi/markless

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