A better way to keep notes

I'm definitely not alone here but finding the perfect toolset is a slight neurosis of mine. And I thought I had it with Typora, a flat, local markdown editor with a notebook view and cross-platform access. But along comes a reference to Obsidian — in our local Nextdoor of all places — and I feel finally ready to move things off Notion and out of the cloud.

Obsidian has a lot of great features on top of being a markdown notebook, including:

• web-less encrypted sync
• images
• wiki-style internal linking
• a nifty graph of all the links
• mobile version
• plugin architecture with a very active community
• CSS-based themes

The one thing it lacks from Notion is a database, but increasingly I find that the kitchen-sink approach isn't working for me. I just want structured text with images, and I can go to LibreOffice Base or Airtable to organize data.