Allow populating account from a directory of markdown files

YES. I would vote for this if I could

Yeah, this is one of the two things Amplenote is rly missing imo to make it complete

Yes!

Would like my onedrive as the repository.

This is a very important criterion for those looking for a new note-taking tool. For example many of my students refuse amplenote for this reason and prefer obsidian or anytype only for this reason.

oh, i thought this was going to be an option with the desktop app. Hm thats kind of keeping me from wanting to invest into one of the subscription plans.

Think I would prefer an improved vault that can be applied to a tag or something honestly, but local mode could be a fine compromise.

Even just a manual backup would be great!

We're aiming to allow automated directory backups as a feature during Q1 2025, which covers half of the original spirit ("Local mode for data ownership") of this voting item.

The other half of "local data" is reading markdown files into the app. Not impossible, not easy. A plugin author could plausibly take a first pass at it. But we will interpret future votes on this voting item as people who hope to be able to auto-import markdown files from a directory.

It's still somewhat unclear whether a user who wanted to edit note files locally would want them available on other devices. The permutations of functionality can get numerous fast if we conditionally allow notes to exist on a single device, so I would be inclined to treat directory notes "as content to be added to the account for everyone device/sharer to access." Unless the user takes an action to designate a particular note should not be synced, like they do to designate a Vault Note or an archived note.

The desktop app download page has for some time advertised:
"Coming soon: Local data storage. Once live you’ll be able to save all your notes and files to a directory on your computer."

As far as I'm concerned, the original title for this issue ("Local mode for data ownership") reflected what I thought the download page was promising. I am much more interested in seeing that implemented, than in being able to go the other way i.e. populating Amplenote from a local directory.

Having a local directory containing all of my notes saved as Markdown files (plus image/attachments) means I truly own my content. It is readable with nothing more than a text editor and can be backed-up somewhere. I place a much higher value on that, than I do on importing new content from local files or syncing changes both ways. I'd be quite happy with 'one-way traffic'.

Allowing editing of content outside the app and having to solve the problem of syncing it back to AN and then across other devices just sounds like a recipe for problems...