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Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

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Post by smarx007 »

usagitoneko97 wrote: post #97

Just tried the desktop version and it's interesting. Ideally, I would like to consolidate all my workflow to one app, so I'm looking for: 1. Markdown editing with vim (Obsidian has vim support! Nice) 2. web clipping (one note) 3. note taking and image annotation with tablet (samsung notes) 4. Sync with desktop/web/android. While 1 and 4 is great on Obsidian, it feels like it's limited on the image and annotation that…

I used Evernote for 2, now it's mostly https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox (still using Evernote in those cases when I need to clip a page behind login). Image handling is a pain point of all text-first note apps, sadly.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

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Post by 100lvlmaster »

As a college student, I like the conventional note-taking apps. But I kept switching between them instead of sticking to one. Because the next one always seemed more lucrative for productivity. So I created a lightweight but featured app to help me type less using bookmarks. I could just bookmark a tweet and then it would pull the entire Thread for me. I could bookmark a website to copy notes from later and it would export that to Markdown. I'm going keep incrementing the feature set but keep the UI looking lightweight It's public right now if anyone wants to check it out: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alekha.net.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

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Post by 100lvlmaster »

100lvlmaster wrote: post #102

As a college student, I like the conventional note-taking apps. But I kept switching between them instead of sticking to one. Because the next one always seemed more lucrative for productivity. So I created a lightweight but featured app to help me type less using bookmarks. I could just bookmark a tweet and then it would pull the entire Thread for me. I could bookmark a website to copy notes from later and it would…

The current feature set includes:

- pulling entire threads for a tweet

- offline support for markdown

- tags

- search for notes

- qr codes

- sharing entire blocks of bookmarks with other people

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#104

Post by nl »

nklmilojevic wrote: post #83

I've tried Obsidian and it is not for me. I really don't like the trend of apps being in Electron and there are much better native apps, especially on macOS (Bear, IA Writer, Ulysses). Trying to understand - what is the feature that Obsidian got you hooked? Usually HN is very critical of Electron apps, but not on this one and I'm really interested why. :)

You may not have noticed, but there’s a lot less criticism of electron these days. I think it’s gotten sufficiently performant that most people don’t care anymore.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#105

Post by laurent123456 »

sbmthakur wrote: post #96
wiradikusuma wrote: post #13

Has anyone used Joplin ( https://joplinapp.org/ )? How does it compare to Obsidian? I've used Joplin for a while. It's Markdown so I like it. The UI is dry (compared to Evernote).

Does allows you to Visualize the links between notes? That's one powerful feature where Obsidian seems to be clearly dominating.

For Joplin, the Link Graph plugin does this - https://github.com/treymo/joplin-link-graph#link-graph-ui-fo...

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

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Post by stavros »

wiradikusuma wrote: post #13

Has anyone used Joplin ( https://joplinapp.org/ )? How does it compare to Obsidian? I've used Joplin for a while. It's Markdown so I like it. The UI is dry (compared to Evernote).

I tried both and stuck with Joplin. I like the database since I can write tooling for it more easily, and have written an exporter to create a static site for my Joplin notes:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/notes/

I also like how it easily syncs with NextCloud and works well.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

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Post by vcavallo »

eXpl0it3r wrote: post #44

That went faster than expected, awesome to see! My major issue with the mobile apps is the syncing. On iOS you get to decide between iCloud or Obsidian Sync. On Android you can hack together something with third-party syncing apps and local disk storage. But if you have been using Dropbox or OneDrive for syncing on your PC, you won't be able to (bidirectional) sync your data to your mobile devices (out of the box). O…

So, bad news for me if I’m using GitHub?

Edit: looking in to https://workingcopyapp.com/ now. an iOS git client.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

#110

Post by PaulWaldman »

It's great that there is a PDF export option. But it would also be nice if there were better options for customizing PDFs without having to rely on other tools like Pandoc.

My use case is to export end-user documentation to PDFs including title page, TOC, headers, and footers.

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