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I have been using obsidian.md for a while now, but I cannot help but find it constraining. Yes, you are not locked down by proprietary file formats, but I just wish there was a lightweight alternative that simply managed your markdown notes how you would like. I also do not need the linking capabilities and graph view all the time, so it would be nice to have a separate program that displays all my notes in a nice way.

My idea

Have the actual note management and note rendering as separate programs. The first binder will allow you to search by tags or alphabetial title with the ability to launch any note with either your editor or simply displays them (with cat, cat | less, or glow).

$ binder ~/notes
[1] note1.md
[2] myothernote.md
[3] secret-note.md
[4] directory/a-note-in-adirectory.md

$ binder 4 -v minimal

This is a note!
Yep
(END)

This works well for daily use, but what if you want to display all of the links and images and such? This is where the second program comes into play, binder-portal. I think a separate program would be apt, because sometimes you do not need a note management system if all you want to do is generate a simple HTML webpage.

I want to emphasize the “simple”, as all I want is as vanilla HTML as possible. no fancy drop-down menus or multi-column responsive crap, but as simple of a design as possible.

I’ve already created a mock-up html file for a diff note I made a while back. This simple HTML also enables it to be printed from a printer without much loss in structure.

Optionally, it would be nice to have the obsidian graph view as nothing more than eye-candy. Maybe something could be made with javascript, but I do not want it to be excessively large.