SiYuan is a privacy-first personal knowledge management system that supports complete offline use, as well as end-to-end encrypted data sync. Fuse blocks, outlines, and bidirectional links to refactor your thinking.
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SiYuan is a privacy-first personal knowledge management system that supports complete offline use, as well as end-to-end encrypted data sync. Fuse blocks, outlines, and bidirectional links to refactor your thinking.
As a paid user and donor who has been using the software for half a year, I do not recommend its usage. Certain features of the software require account registration. However, the developers manage accounts arbitrarily, unilaterally changing account usage rules temporarily, and exercising speech control within the forum, directly altering or deleting posts that question their actions. You might consider using Obsidian or Logseq instead.
My main writing app. Siyuan has all the features I need, it's extendable, and it works. I deduct one star because the desktop application is Electron-based, which I am extremely against, and they ask users to pay in order to sync their notes. I self-host my own, so I don't have to deal with either of those issues.
Version 3 has great additions to an already awesome app. General availability of databases and we can now set any LLM that is openAI or Azure compatible. I use ollama to serve Mixtral locally and use it in Siyuan.