Obsidian vs Cusp

Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. It is a second brain, for you, forever. Now available on the go for iOS! Features include: - Customizable toolbar - Pull down quick actions - Graph view - Community plugins - Themes - Sidebar pinning for tablet - iCloud vaults

Most task apps give you two states: not done, and done. That is not how work actually ends. A great deal of it is neither finished nor forgotten — it just sits, for months, being neither. Cusp gives work four lanes, and the fourth is the point. CUSP — named, not started. Everything begins here. DOING — you have actually picked it up. DONE — finished. RELEASED — deliberately let go. Not failed, not deleted: decided. RELEASING IS AN ACTION, NOT A DELETE The thread stays, with the date you let it go. A list you are allowed to abandon is a list you can trust — and a list you trust is one you will actually open. THE SUNDAY GLANCE Once a week Cusp shows one short panel: the threads that have been sitting on the cusp the longest, and how many days each has been there. No badge, no streak, no notification pressure. Just the number, once, so that starting it or releasing it is a decision you make rather than one that makes itself. YOUR WORK IN PLAIN FILES Choose a local or iCloud folder in Files that Cusp can read and write to. After restarting Cusp, choose the folder again to renew access. Cusp mirrors every thread there as a plain Markdown file, and every state change as one append-only .jsonl file per day. You can read it with anything, search it with anything. If Cusp vanished tomorrow, your record would not. FREE All four lanes, the Sunday glance, folder mirroring, and 100 threads. Not a trial. It does not expire. CUSP PLUS Removes the thread limit. That is the whole difference — no feature is held hostage behind it. NO ACCOUNT Cusp makes no network requests of its own. No sign-up, no server, no analytics, no third-party tracking. Cusp Plus is an auto-renewing subscription charged to your App Store account at confirmation of purchase. It renews unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms: https://berkemd.github.io/norea/cusp/terms.html Privacy: https://berkemd.github.io/norea/cusp/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/