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Post by benhurmarcel »

darekkay wrote: post #74
TRcontrarian wrote: post #20

Obsidian is the closest thing I've found to the Pensive from Harry Potter. It's a data recording format good enough for me to extract thoughts from my mind, represent them with enough fidelity to reconstruct later, connect them to the concepts that they are related to in my head, and then forget the thought completely so I can move on and process it later. I was only willing to try it out because I had heard it menti…

> when the one with a Onenote license died OneNote has been free for the last few years. > port those notes in an exportable format You can export your notes in a HTML-like format. I haven't tried to convert it into a different format yet, though.

> OneNote has been free for the last few years.

Only if you store your notes in OneDrive.

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

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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…

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

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Post by slightwinder »

Obsidian is really nice, and quite powerful, especially thanks to plugins. It's also moving fast, the developers are very active. I used it for a while to move on from org-mode, but kinda lost interesst because of certain excentrics it has.

One specific problem that killed it for me temporary is the lack of support for multiple vaults, to the point that there is not even a truely centralized global configuation. Everything is saved in the vault itself, including plugins. Vault is the name of the data-directory, basically your workspace. For someone using multiple vaults (work, and private stuff) on multiple systems, this really kills any motivation to use it. Did this change in the meanwhile? I losly follow the changelog and haven't seen anything yet regarding this things, but maybe I just missed it.

Other than thoise specific problems, it's awesome how activate and vibrant the community itself is. There is a very active forum and discord-server, and many awesome plugins coming from the community are available. Obsidian has really the potential to leave org-mode behind and become a serious alternative for the rest of the world.

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Post by andix »

foolinaround wrote: post #115
andix wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used it for a while and switched to obsidian. Some reasons: - Joplin doesn’t save plain Markdown, you can‘t just edit/view your files with alternative editors easily - Creating and organizing notes feels less smooth for me - navigating between notes is not so easy - you can’t write #tags inside your text and it just works - plug-ins and configuration is stored inside the vault, if you sync the vault, you have all t…

> Joplin doesn’t save plain Markdown, you can‘t just edit/view your files with alternative editors easily It saves files to Markdown, and on right click, you can 'external edit' with your favorite text editor, which you have configured ahead of time in the settings.

It works. But it’s not easy to use.

After finishing the edit, you need to press another button inside Joplin, to import the changes you made. Doesn’t work automatically.

You can only edit single files like that. If the file contains links to other notes, they are not resolvable.

It is not possible to just create some Md files and let Joplin index them and watch them for updates.

There is a hotfolder plug-in, but it only imports those files and then deletes them.

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

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Post by crucialfelix »

rayxi271828 wrote: post #124

Any org-roam users here? I started with Roam Research (one of the believers, even), but then moved to org-roam to keep the files under my control. Is Obsidian worth trying if one's already using org-roam and is reasonably familiar with Emacs?

Obsidian has now exceeded roam for me. The community plugins are great and getting better.

Roam has better embedding eg tweets, but not for long.

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

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Post by sen »

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’ve used Joplin for obsessive note taking for a couple years now and am happy with it (after trying every other tool I could find). It lets me sync with my standard sync tools and being FOSS I know it won’t end up being a paid app down the track or get bought out and ruined.

Obsidian does have a slightly nicer UI and some nice features Joplin doesn’t have but I think the former points are way more important.

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

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Post by bentoner »

slightwinder wrote: post #123

Obsidian is really nice, and quite powerful, especially thanks to plugins. It's also moving fast, the developers are very active. I used it for a while to move on from org-mode, but kinda lost interesst because of certain excentrics it has. One specific problem that killed it for me temporary is the lack of support for multiple vaults, to the point that there is not even a truely centralized global configuation. Ever…

You could link or copy the config file and plugin folder in the `.obsidian` directory in one vault to other vaults.

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

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Post by jaimefjorge »

I’ve been a happy user of Obsidian for almost a year. It’s a solid product, moving at impressive speed (until recently they had almost weekly releases of features/bugs/improvements) with just 2 people. In my opinion we need more products and teams like these.

As for my use of Obsidian, I’ve put into it almost 400 permanent notes into it and I have my journal in it as well. I find the process of connecting ideas and thoughts great for exploring subjects/books/articles. I’m a fan of this product.

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