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Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
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#192Any 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?
I also use org-roam, I'm wondering the same thing. I really like org-roam, and I'm very used to the keybindings, but I've always felt a little bit of friction with it that I can't really explain.
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#193Obsidian has really delivered in a crowded note-taking space by focusing on the fundamentals: 1. Privacy. You can roll your own syncing (or use iCloud, Dropbox, etc.), without the notes being stored on the note editors' servers, which is a huge win over Roam, Notion, Evernote, etc. After the Evernote fiasco from a few years ago (where they considered reading your notes for ML model training and got massive pushback),…
> Speaking of future-proofing, Markdown is as close as it gets to having interoperability with the notes. Obsidian is at its core just a Markdown file editor, which means your notes are stored as plaintext and easy to export. There is a bit of Obsidian-flavored syntax (e.g. bi-directional links [[...]]), but these are becoming standard in note-taking. Many note-taking apps claim export functionality, but at the end o…
The notes are very much markdown files. There is a very small number of extensions the Obsidian developers created (e.g., a syntax for linking to a specific paragraph within a note) that are not markdown, but it's very easy to not use them.
I'm using the exact same folder of markdown notes in parallel with Obsidian, The Archive, 1Writer, Calca, TableFlip, Python scripts, and Keyboard Maestro macros I have written and everything works flawlessly together.
To me, the killer feature of markdown notes is not the future-proofing, but this kind of seamless interoperability.
Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
#194Obsidian is definitely a great tool for knowledge management, and now it's even able to do all that on mobile!
Personally, I've used our tool Hypernotes (https://zenkit.com/en/hypernotes/). It released with a mobile version of it and also runs of all the platforms and has a web version too. It is also able to do all the features the modern "second brain" note-taking apps offer.
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#195Obsidian is just too great. They really focused on what matters deeply to the PKM crowd and found an elegant way to serve that need
They are not the biggest app in this space to do it. Joplin did this a while back. BoostNote is working on it. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
I posted earlier why Joplin was close, but Obsidian was worth the switch. What I haven't found is a good multiplayer-mode. There are hints that this might work with Obsidian in the future and I am excited about that. I've used mem.ai which is close, but it's been buggy and also there's note a clear way to "zoom out" and look at all your notes, like a file explorer, graph view, or whatever. I imagine they might change this. But BoostNote looks very interesting. I appreciate the recommendation. I'll keep my eyes on it, for sure.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Speaking of future-proofing, Markdown is as close as it gets to having interoperability with the notes. Obsidian is at its core just a Markdown file editor, which means your notes are stored as plaintext and easy to export. There is a bit of Obsidian-flavored syntax (e.g. bi-directional links [[...]]), but these are becoming standard in note-taking. Many note-taking apps claim export functionality, but at the end o…
The notes are very much markdown files. There is a very small number of extensions the Obsidian developers created (e.g., a syntax for linking to a specific paragraph within a note) that are not markdown, but it's very easy to not use them. I'm using the exact same folder of markdown notes in parallel with Obsidian, The Archive, 1Writer, Calca, TableFlip, Python scripts, and Keyboard Maestro macros I have written and…
> The notes are very much markdown files.
I don't much want to get into a debate over semantics, but markdown plus extensions with useful information (like links) does not qualify in my book as markdown. Sure, if you want to limit yourself to the parts that are interoperable go ahead, but then you're not using some of the best parts of Obsidian.
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#197Earlier 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. Not in my experience. The online, UWP, feature-reduced version that comes with windows is gratis, but ... . The proper desktop version requires an office license. It then is "gratis" on top of the cost you already paid for office.
No?
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#198Dumb question: is Obsidian anything more than an open source version of Apple Notes?
I realize there's technical differences but from a use cases / feature perspective - isn't it essentially the same?
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
> OneNote has been free for the last few years. Not in my experience. The online, UWP, feature-reduced version that comes with windows is gratis, but ... . The proper desktop version requires an office license. It then is "gratis" on top of the cost you already paid for office.
> The proper desktop version requires an office license That's not true in my experience. I'm running a proper "OneNote 2016" version without any license or subscription. This is also stated on a Microsoft support site [0]: > OneNote (formerly called “OneNote 2016”), the _free_ desktop app which runs on all supported versions of Microsoft Windows and which is part of Office 2019 and Microsoft 365. Further down, it's…
The link to the "free standalone app" just gives me OfficeSetup.exe (7.0MB), which did not give me a standalone app when I last tried it, but if that works now. Great!
Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
#200Dumb question: is Obsidian anything more than an open source version of Apple Notes? I realize there's technical differences but from a use cases / feature perspective - isn't it essentially the same?
Well it is open source, is cross platform and is not made by Apple. So, really different.