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

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Post by uo21tp5hoyg »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #140

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 b…

Their website is very frustrating to use, I had to scroll like crazy to get the animations to slowly load in.

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

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Post by dangoor »

I have a Kindle Vella coming out (this is Amazon's new serialized fiction format that's expected to go live this week), and I've been writing it in Obsidian using both mobile and desktop apps. The ability to open multiple views of notes conveniently has worked great, because I have notes for characters and settings and such, plus a master note providing a general index, and then a note for each episode of the Vella.

I have noticed that Obsidian (plus my Smart Keyboard) drains my iPad's battery a bit more than a full native app might, but it doesn't drain it nearly as much as a game and it works amazingly well.

I also using Obsidian as the backing store for my blog/site[1] and the ability to link up notes on a public site is really nice. I'm not even taking advantage of this fully yet. Because Obsidian uses plain Markdown as the source of truth, it was easy to write code[2] to augment page content with backlinks myself and then feed it to Hugo for generation of my site.

Overall, I'm a very happy customer!

[1]: https://www.kevindangoor.com [2]: https://github.com/dangoor/sharedbrain

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

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Post by chishaku »

spookyuser wrote: post #108

Aside from the other praise people have given Obsidian it is also by far the fastest electron app I've ever used by a lot. Curious if the devs have any insight how they have made it feel so performant.

Everything changes when you ditch the network and store the database locally (markdown files and json metadata).

I used Notion for years before Obsidian and the speed alone is a reason to never go back.

On a related note, I also consider Linear to be quite fast and responsive especially when you learn the keyboard shortcuts. And to achieve that responsiveness, they load the whole database (or deltas) at startup.

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

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Post by Philipp0205 »

gexla wrote: post #49
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!

And isn't this a side project? They are also the dev team behind Dynalist?

Yes they develop Dynalist as well but as far as I know it is on "hold" and they are focusing on Obsidian atm.

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

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Post by jonotime »

spidersouris wrote: post #150
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?

MD is great for a readme, or a book where someone is going to read it once and digest the info. Markdown is a presentation format and is much easier to write then HTML since its less expressive.

Note taking can be deep and contain a lot of data (lists of items copied form CSVs, code snippets, documenting failures). Notes are more like code. You can spend your whole day in it - tweaking code blocks, refactoring, etc.

A lot of my sections are 5 tabs deep. Doing this with stars is harder to type, harder to copy/paste, and harder to read.

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

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Post by Philipp0205 »

genghizkhan wrote: post #70
bentoner wrote: post #63

Strong recommendation for both Obsidian and Dynalist, the other product of this crazy productive duo. I really appreciate their understanding that users want to be able customize their note-taking/life-organizing system. Is there a plugin or something that enables list folding in a markdown file? I'm wondering whether it's time to migrate the Dynalist parts of my system to Obsidian and that's the big thing I'd miss.

Yup. It's called Outliner.

Outliner and the zoom plugin give you the full outliner experience.

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

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Post by chishaku »

slightwinder wrote: post #141
bentoner wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It’s not perfect but it did take me about 5 minutes to resolve when I created 3 clones of my main vault.

The main issue was changing the relative path references to the templates and and assets directories.

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

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Post by fsiefken »

for_i_in_range wrote: post #50

Obsidian = best Digital. Still inferior to Analog Notecards.

do you mean something like:

  * bullet journal https://bulletjournal.com/  
  * analog https://ugmonk.com/blogs/journal/analog-the-simplest-productivity-system  
  * hipster pda https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipster_PDA
or do you have your own system?

i use little index cards on occasion, but i often forget to bring them or later archive them.

i bought an s-pen so I can scribble notes in a handwriting app, next to tiddlywiki (and now also obsidian) managing markdown and org files (the letter linked to markdown otherwiste tiddlywiki doesn't get it) see how that goes.

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

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Post by nsriv »

Perhaps I haven't used Obsidian enough to figure out an organizational method or workflow for this, but I've really been hoping for a universal version of Noteplan 3. I love having the notes and maps but also want to use it as a daily planner with reminders. Hopefully the mobile app is a step towards that, but I'm open to any worflow suggestions too!

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

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Post by jonfer »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #140

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 b…

Sounds what I’m looking for, do you have an invite (nojfer@gmail.com)?
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