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

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Post by darekkay »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #121
darekkay wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> Only if you store your notes in OneDrive.

Do you have a source for that? I don't believe this is true. When creating a notebook, I can specify if I want a OneDrive-synched notebook or a local one (OneNote 2016). Such a limitation _might_ be part of the Store version of OneNote, but that's just a guess. Also a Reddit thread I found discussing this topic stated there's no such limitation in OneNote 2016.

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

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Post by sharikone »

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 stuck with Joplin, because it is FOSS and not much worse than Obsidian.

I actually like Obsidian more and I would be glad to pay the price. My problem is that it now runs well, uses compatibile formats, is actively maintained - but who knows how will it be 10 years from now? Having the whole of my bibliography locked in in Mendeley was not a great experience.

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

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Post by sygma »

I’ve been very much enjoying FSNotes [0] as a replacement for Notational Velocity (and nvALT) which are both abandonware at this point. FSNotes is a native app, is FLOSS and is actively maintained. It lacks some of the advanced features of Obsidian (like Graph View) but it has the essentials (hyperlinks and tag sidebar).

[0] https://fsnot.es/

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

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Post by least »

I’m still waiting on one of these applications to actually have vim keybindings for their iPad app - there are quite a few applications that I think use code mirror which for whatever reason doesn’t seem to support it.

At least I’m assuming that’s the reason, given the feature is notably absent from every note application that supports a vim mode on desktop on iPadOS. Please, someone implement this.

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

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Post by gregwebs »

I have been happy enough with SimpleNote - great cross platform markdown note sync. You can link notes and publish them. Not open source but no cost.

Just tried the Obsidian mobile app - it is fast as well. I am tempted to switch for the vi key bindings.

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

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Post by prashantsengar »

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?

You can use LogSeq[1] if you'd like to continue with org-roam. It supports both Markdown and org-roam, stores data locally, and has a good community as well. It is still in beta though.

[1] https://github.com/logseq/logseq

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

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Post by jonotime »

I want to use a tool like this but I dont like using Markdown for taking notes. Its far too restrictive. Which is why I keep coming back to plaintext. These days my formatting is just deep tabs. Anyone know of tooling around this? I created a plugin for now here https://github.com/jonocodes/vscode-tabtext

but I'd still like a better tool. Worth a try to ask, I guess.

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

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Post by Aeolun »

polote wrote: post #30
Raphomet wrote: post #3

I'm a note-taking power nerd who has used all the buzzy apps on Macs. Obsidian is by far the best — it's become my personal journal, my knowledge base, a quick and dirty blog, a place to keep loose notes. The development velocity of the (TWO PERSON!) team behind this app is ridiculous. They're constantly pushing updates, and seem to handle all facets of app development with aplomb. No affiliation, just a happy user!

> The development velocity of the (TWO PERSON!) Well in general, isn't the velocity inversely correlated with the number of people in a team?

Especially if your problem domain is determined by those two people.

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

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Post by eXpl0it3r »

vcavallo wrote: post #119
eXpl0it3r wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you use some plugin that helped with the committing and pushing? On Android you could probably somehow do a local checkout, but don't think that will work with iOS due to file system restrictions.

I just found this: https://workingcopyapp.com/

Sounds like you're in luck with Working Copy, as they mention this as being the only (known) application supporting background-sync for specific directories.

https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian/iOS+app#Sync

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

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

After a year+ of using Roam, I discovered https://mem.ai a few months ago and haven’t gone back to Roam. Mem is invite only beta I think. Raised 5.6M from A16z. It has bidirectional linking, tagging etc. Easy workflow via “mem spotlight” - you can capture websites or highlights into mem, or paste from mem into other apps (e.g snippets)

https://get.mem.ai/faq

But very intrigued by obsidian. I briefly tried it before but will give it a go again

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