# Discourse as a personal-wiki note-taking markdown-editor local app

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [January 29, 2024, 12:32pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-personal-wiki-note-taking-markdown-editor-local-app/293289 "2024-01-29T12:32:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![lisandro\_iaffar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/lisandro_iaffar/32/315816_2.png) [@lisandro\_iaffar](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lisandro_iaffar)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2024, 4:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-personal-wiki-note-taking-markdown-editor-local-app/293289/6 "2024-01-30T16:56:58Z")

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I agree that discourse does a lot more, but that’s not a problem, even some forum instances use a lot less than what it offers. You just take from the package what you need and discourse can be as basic as a bicycle if you just want to charter, it’s not mandatory to use everything. You can use an IDE as a basic text editor, putting aside its full IDE capabilities (and that’s indeed what I’m doing now, I’m using Rstudio for markdown editing, and besides being a full IDE, it’s blazing fast).

Obsidian falls short by starting with things as basic as opening a mkd document, which it can not do by design. It can’t generate a table of contents of a document, so it’s as comfortable for working as gedit (but gedit at least can open a mkd document!). Not even mentioning that’s not open-source.

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