yeah for me, I agree, the price is not an issue. but I am a POWER user. so local does not just mean that it runs w/o internet, it means the structure of the repo is exposed in the file system. So I can:

• directly script on that data since it is just text markdown
• use github to track and explore versioning
• embed info directly into other files that I would not put into the roam repo (like source code trees) etc.

for me local is quite powerful.

I wonder if there are Roam features that I am missing with Obsidian. I have not found them, but I only played with Roam for a couple of weeks. Do you know of any big ones?

best luck!

— dan

p.s. the roam tool is MUCH better documented, so Obsidian is a much larger commitment to really get is power features working.