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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.
I've been searching for months for the ultimate PKMS. SiYuan is it, and it's made by a power couple who are dedicated to FOSS. Offline first, beautiful transclusion support, completely cross platform. I'm in love. The pace of development is incredibly rapid as well, as opposed to some FOSS projects that seem to be on life support.
All my attempts to leave Notion were unsuccessful, but it was this program (with the connected API key for AI) that allowed me to replace note-taking with images. The Notion site itself did not work very well with long notes in which I added around 1000 images, but this program displays them well. I really like the dual scrolling - the small one shows the actual size of the note, as the large one will be incorrect when there are many images with lazy-loading.
As an Obsidian user for two years, and continue to pay attention to applications such as Anytype. I think the experience with Siyuan surpasses that of Obsidian. Self-hosting allowed and local first, PDF annotation, block sync. Looking forward to next year's maze feature (whiteboard).
Nice and easy to use. Like Loqseq and Obsidian combined. Shame for online sync which requires 1 time payment.
It's like if Obsidian and Notion had a baby in every good way possible
