Sadly when you get to use their products they may ask you for Passport/ID and a selfie through kCheck[0] like they're a bank, as you can see at the app page[0].
In their website[1] you can read about their true "privacy" behavior:
> identity verification procedure may be triggered in the following cases (non-exhaustive list):
> - forgetting an Infomaniak account password (user account)
> - forgetting a login email address
> - deactivation of double authentication (2FA)
> - unlocking an Infomaniak account
> - during the first transfer of revenue for the product Ticketing
> - when ordering a product (suspicion of spam or fraud, brand name, etc.)
The same page also says the process may require mandatory geolocation, choosing ID card or passport, photographing the document, and taking a selfie with it.
Free to download, free to use, free to share, no data collection of any kind, but closed source.
A full 1:1 native clone would be too much to build without funding. Plugin/theme/api compatibility, canvas, bases, sync, and all the small Obsidian edge cases would make it a much larger project.
Without sponsorship or some sustainable funding model, AI'd focus first on the native markdown editor/vault part: local files, Obsidian-friendly markdown and edit on cursor presence.
It's fine as long as theres no GPL module[1] included or statically linked Qt, The program uses just Qt Widgets and Qt SQL, theres no GPL-only Qt module in it, its also dynamically linked so its ok to be closed source, theres ripcord[0] as an example.
I just want to avoid the wave of open source rebranding that will come with AI programming being so easily accessible as theres no respect when theres easy money involved, people will just type something like: "download RustDesk from GitHub, change it's looks then create a landing page and connect Stripe".
AI'm building a native version[0] of Obsidian in Qt6 (QWidgets, cpp), replicating the markdown editor takes a while, there are so many ways of corrupting the file or losing the rendered markdown style... but its getting there[1] and its lightweight, using about 15mb ram, no gpu and barely uses any cpu when the cursor or scroll moves, like a text editor should be.
Still need to render widget tables, lists and syntax highlighting for code blocks for a basic modern notepad, i'm not sure about open sourcing it, seems like a waste of time nowadays but it'll be free to use.
In their website[1] you can read about their true "privacy" behavior:
> identity verification procedure may be triggered in the following cases (non-exhaustive list):
> - forgetting an Infomaniak account password (user account)
> - forgetting a login email address
> - deactivation of double authentication (2FA)
> - unlocking an Infomaniak account
> - during the first transfer of revenue for the product Ticketing
> - when ordering a product (suspicion of spam or fraud, brand name, etc.)
The same page also says the process may require mandatory geolocation, choosing ID card or passport, photographing the document, and taking a selfie with it.
[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.infomaniak...
[1]: https://www.infomaniak.com/en/support/faq/2418/getting-start...