I started building Stratum two weeks ago. Not because the world needs another note-taking app — but because I couldn't find one that respected my data enough.
Here's the thing about most PKM (Personal Knowledge Management) tools: they own your notes. Obsidian locks you into a proprietary format...
Imagine this:
You are developing a website based on pure HTML/JS/CSS. You want to keep it as light as possible by avoiding any kind of framework so that the loading times stay low. Now you need to test some functionality by accessing DOM elements directly.