Whoops, should have noticed your endorsement of syncthing before posting a comment mentioning this.

While Obsidian does save to individual files, the Markdown they use seems to be a superset of everyday Markdown. Eg, being able to use callouts (eg, Note, Warning, Info, etc) and embedded linking of notes.

The automatic backlinks are fantastic. And I’ve discovered that if I rename a note, all links to that note get updated as well. So no need to worry about orphaning pages.

I’ve added a handful of plugins as well. Off the top of my head, one is a dynamic table of contents (for that page), another helps to compose/edit Markdown tables.

Also a big fan of Obsidian!

For syncing, one option is to use syncthing.

I know someone (whose geek creds are admittedly well beyond mine) who is also a fan. He uses GitHub to sync his notes.

TBH for many years it’s felt like most accounts (or at least the ones that bubbled up into my feed) were angry people venting about whatever. Like, the angrier they were, the more engagement they were hoping for. That was a surefire way for me to at least move on to someone else, or to just close the app. Don’t need anyone harshing my mellow. The shouty people can go find a wall to yell at.

I barely get on these days. And I don’t doubt that it’s gotten worse.

If you need more fodder for a future response, you could break down both “seasonal and holiday decorations”.

List the common/popular seasons/holidays where decorations are brought out, before or after having described your plant. For example:

• my plant is not a Valentine’s Day card

• my plant is not an Easter egg, or made of chocolate

• my plant is not a firework

• my plant is not a somber meditation of the lives of our troops lost in battle

• my plant is not a Halloween decoration

• my plant is not a turkey dinner

• my plant is not a Christmas ornament, nor is it a Christmas tree

• my plant is not a large, illuminated ball, sliding down a pole between 11:59pm Dec 31 and 12:00am Jan 1, not is it a party hat or party favor

• etc

I’m sure you could throw together a much better list than the one above :)

Reminds me of the X-windows logo