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Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Post by benhurmarcel »

itsspring wrote: post #147
ericax wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The idea is that if you're creating value with Obsidian, your employer should expense that, ideally it shouldn't impact you financially. If you're working for a non-profit for example, it's all free. > (Also, their license page could do with some proofreading) Interested to hear more! We did a few rounds of proofreading, did you find any typos?

> your employer should expense that, ideally it shouldn't impact you financially. You're really limiting your userbase (customer pool) here by expecting only enterprise users. Many people here are freelance designers, students with part-time jobs, researchers writing for-profit books, or they work for themselves. Most employers don't allow expenses for note-taking apps. I would encourage you to adopt this pricing mod…

I confirm, I could be interested in such a tool for my professional activity, but I work in a large company and there’s 0 chance they’d let me expense whatever software I want. I’d be paying from my own pocket.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Post by dvt »

Is there any reason why so many Electron apps (this one included) don't disable "Ctrl-Shift-I" to bring up the Chrome developer tools when they distribute their binary?

It's trivially done with `devTools: false` in the main window bootstrap code. It's kind of a pet peeve and just seems lazy.

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Post by fenwick67 »

dvt wrote: post #213

Is there any reason why so many Electron apps (this one included) don't disable "Ctrl-Shift-I" to bring up the Chrome developer tools when they distribute their binary? It's trivially done with `devTools: false` in the main window bootstrap code. It's kind of a pet peeve and just seems lazy.

I mean... why should they?

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Post by ergl »

karakanb wrote: post #205

Genuine question: what exactly are you taking notes of? I have tried using tools like this before, but in all of my attempts I have found that I actually don't have much to take notes for; for example, I have never felt like "I wish I had taken notes of this", because I feel like any kind of search engine is doing this on a much larger scale, practically for combined notes of millions of people in a much efficient wa…

At work: I type up all the notes about the papers I read, meeting minutes, list of tasks, and also me wondering "out loud" about bugs, design notes, etc.

For personal use: I write down notes about articles I read, copy-paste some quotes and write my personal thoughts around them.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Post by ericax »

dvt wrote: post #213

Is there any reason why so many Electron apps (this one included) don't disable "Ctrl-Shift-I" to bring up the Chrome developer tools when they distribute their binary? It's trivially done with `devTools: false` in the main window bootstrap code. It's kind of a pet peeve and just seems lazy.

We don't want to prevent people from looking at the DOM to make custom CSS: https://github.com/kmaasrud/awesome-obsidian

It also makes it easy to debug issues with users since we're still in beta.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Post by unqueued »

jhvkjhk wrote: post #83
ericax wrote: post #7

Maker here, excited to be on Hacker News. Obsidian is going into public beta today! (We're also on Product Hunt, come check us out!) We made Obsidian to be your long-term second brain and personal knowledge base. As you put in more notes and make more connections, the knowledge base gets more valuable, so we think it's important that you can 100% own your data and not rely on any cloud services. We believe you second…

Obsidian looks great! And I think it will be greater if I can write `[](another_markdown)` as internal links too, it will be easier to generate HTML files to host, using Hugo or something. If people save all markdown files in one folder then it's the same word count as [[another_markdown]].

I would just like to point out John Gruber disavowed the []() syntax on Twitter. He even said he would like to accept reverse brackets, since it's such a common problem.

I have been using personal wikis for about a decade, and 99% of the time I make an internal link, I want the caption to be the same as the page name.

I wish that the Markdown standard would just specify to render [[Page]] as [Page](Page).

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Post by tonyhb »

A fork of visual studio to only work with .md files, with an NPM plugin to render markdown as a preview, and pull out links between the files as a D3 map.

:thinking-face: I'm not sure about this one. Maybe for others, but not the UI for me. Good luck to you all, in any case!

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Post by dvt »

ericax wrote: post #217
dvt wrote: post #213

Is there any reason why so many Electron apps (this one included) don't disable "Ctrl-Shift-I" to bring up the Chrome developer tools when they distribute their binary? It's trivially done with `devTools: false` in the main window bootstrap code. It's kind of a pet peeve and just seems lazy.

We don't want to prevent people from looking at the DOM to make custom CSS: https://github.com/kmaasrud/awesome-obsidian It also makes it easy to debug issues with users since we're still in beta.

This is a fair point, congrats on your launch!
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