I tried switching to this a few years ago, but switched back to Obsidian. My problem was actually the strongest feature: the VS Code integration. Only about a third of my note taking is related to software development, so for me going into VS Code the other 2/3rd of the time was clunky. If 100% (or close to it) of your note taking is software related, this is a great product.
I used both from, essentially, day 1 and had a similar experience. Obsidian is just fantastic and I vastly prefer keeping it separate from my coding, even for coding-related notes.
Though, once in a while I'll open the notes in VS Code just to make use of things like better find/replace, regex etc... - especially globally.
After reading the README, the only missing thing seems to be the equivalent of Dataview from Obsidian. Will wait for something like it before considering switching.
Speaking of which, have you seen the new Bases feature in Obsidian? https://help.obsidian.md/bases
Reminiscent of Dataview.
That looks awesome!
> Foam is a personal knowledge management and sharing system inspired by Roam Research, built on Visual Studio Code
See also org-roam which is similar but for emacs using org: https://www.orgroam.com/
This is what made explore orgmode altogether and got me addicted to Emacs.
Is vscode the new electron?
Ha! That's ironic because VS Code is built on electron.