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

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Post by slightwinder »

bentoner wrote: post #129
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.

I tried this early on, but it seems there are vault-specific parts that become weird when used outside their original vault.

I'm also not so eager to regulary waste time for hacking tools. Updating the settings in all vaults each time I update some setting or plugin in one vault would be quite a pain.

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

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Post by arch-ninja »

This looks awesome, but is there a source-available release? I'd pay for it, I generally dislike large blobs ("appimages") and would prefer to "./configure && make && make install" myself so I can be confident the SW won't forget all my data because of an update; if I understand how it is built I can understand the risks associated storage and prevent them outright.

Even the largest most successful companies with 100+ QA people on a flagship product lose data because of mundane updates, and this can be prevented by understanding how the SW works.

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

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Post by Macacity »

arch-ninja wrote: post #143

This looks awesome, but is there a source-available release? I'd pay for it, I generally dislike large blobs ("appimages") and would prefer to "./configure && make && make install" myself so I can be confident the SW won't forget all my data because of an update; if I understand how it is built I can understand the risks associated storage and prevent them outright. Even the largest most successful companies with 100…

This app is for reading markdown files on your device. You can sync them yourself to wherever you want to make sure that nothing gets lost.

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

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Post by notdang »

sygma wrote: post #133

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/

I am still using nvALT and the application works despite the fact that it wasn't updated in years.

Funny personal fact is that I started to use nvALT after seeing it mentioned in a bad fiction book, one of those that you read because you get stuck somewhere and it's the only book available.

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

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Post by theshrike79 »

mechhacker wrote: post #142

Interesting. I'll give this a shot. I've been using Evernote for years but their recent "improvements" to mobile have made it incredibly slow and requiring 3x as many steps as before, and I can't stand it anymore.

Long time Evernote user here too.

I moved to Notion a year or so ago. Tried Obsidian and Joplin, but Notion hit the sweet spot for me. You can do very interesting things with the "everything is a database" concept.

Obsidian really seems to be picking up steam though, with all the community plugins and everything I really need to re-evaluate it vs. Notion later.

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

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Post by vorejdajo »

The android app doesn't work without forced broad access to all storage. The reasoning provided for the Android app's storage permission[1] is a privacy nightmare.

1. Performance reductions for sake of privacy is acceptable. 2. Feature reductions such as watching a directory are also acceptable. No other app even uses this feature. This isn't Linux.

In any case, The app can still run without storage access, but chooses not to. It can access it's own internal storage at root without permissions. It can also access a dedicated app specific directory in external storage. If I just want to use the app without storage permissions, I should be able to.

1: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian/Android+app#Storage+Permis...

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

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Post by bosie »

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. :)

I switched from Bear to Obsidian due to the inertia of bear development. What hooked me was:

- Vim support

- text files on disk

- plugin support. community around it makes that worth it. currently i have 16 plugins installed. and most of them work fine on the mobile app too

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

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Post by spidersouris »

jonotime wrote: post #137

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.

What exactly do you find restrictive with MD?
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