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Post by 1MachineElf »

WJW wrote: post #118
lonesword wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The development velocity of the (TWO PERSON!) team behind this app is ridiculous This! I just checked their page for a "careers" button to see if they got VC funding and are raising a team. Nope, still just 2 people. It's not that they are able to move fast, it's that they are moving fast while making a product that looks good, does the job, and is snappy. Kudos to the (2 person) team!

The product velocity is probably because it's only two people, not despite their team size.

It might also be because they're avid users of Obsidian itself.

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Post by rvieira »

nsriv wrote: post #210
rvieira wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have both on iOS and I have to say I much prefer Obsidian. Although Joplin is FOSS, Obisian uses plain text files rather than a database which is a massive plus to me, personally. Also, Obsidian UI is light-years ahead of Joplin's. It's interesting that (IIUC) Obsidian is also not native but it feels completely native when compared to Joplin. Also most Obsidian plugins work fine on desktop and mobile and the ecosys…

Do you have any tips for making Obsidian function like Noteplan? I'm out of the iOS/Mac ecosystem but love how it works.

I use a few plugins to manage tasks:

- "Calendar" to organise daily notes (my "inbox")

- "Tasks" and "Rollover Daily Todos"

- "Checklist" for a unified todo view

"Day Planner" seems cool, but I haven't played with it.

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

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Post by gorgoiler »

I use Notable.app to track notes on my high school pupils, lesson plans for teaching CS, and instances of individual lessons where I’ve delivered those lessons to different groups of pupils. Also mixed in where log notes on coding clubs, tutorials, staff meetings etc.

It is a great tool and has been game changing. But…

My workflow is inextricably linked to the way I use Notable.app and while I’m kind of happy with it, one way linking without a back button is a massive drag. As a markdown editor it is utterly fantastic. As an organiser of knowledge it is good, but could be better, but I can’t move on from it without a lot of work to migrate my workflow. I’ll get around to it at some point this summer but only if I get comfortable with a workflow in another tool first.

My point: be careful how you integrate these tools into your life. You are basically betting married to them.

They can be amazing. They can also be amazing 90% of the time and leave you high and dry in ways that make you want to move on, but cannot.

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Post by setr »

bachmeier wrote: post #196
cywick wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> markdown plus extensions with useful information (like links) does not qualify in my book as markdown

Almost every useful markdown system extends markdown arbitrarily. Markdown is standardized much like SQL is — a standard exists, but it standardized very little; mostly just defining the look & feel of the extensions

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Post by riffic »

excellent app! Now I just need to figure out how to sync my vault that I keep backed to a remote Git repo.

Also, I saw this (An Interactive Introduction to Zettelkasten) on reddit today and felt like sharing. This goes hand in hand with tools like Obsidian, Logseq, or Roam:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27811809

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Post by mariodiana »

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?

The Mythical Man-Month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

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Post by prashantsengar »

EleanorKonik wrote: post #169
prashantsengar wrote: post #5

I love using Obsidian and it is where all my notes live. Last year when I was searching for wiki-type note taking tools, I stumbled upon many of them including Roam Research, TiddlyWiki, and then Obsidian. Obsidian is what I chose because of how it stores my data - markdown files. And it does not lose any functionality even if it uses markdown. Bidirectional linking, block references, heading references, a beautiful…

I've heard good things about the LogSeq/Obsidian interoperability, but out of curiosity, have you tried the Outliner plugin for Obsidian? I haven't gotten a good sense of how the two differ.

I have used Outliner too. There isn't exactly a difference between using them both. I prefer LogSeq because of the UI/UX that it provides for outlining. I would like to fix myself to a single app one day if possible, but for now Logseq and Obsidian work well for me.

Offtopic: It is such a nice co-incidence to meet you here on HN. I found you on YouTube yesterday while searching for Notion swipe files and then followed you on Twitter today. :).

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Post by SamBam »

dkislyuk wrote: post #173

Obsidian 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),…

> My entire personal knowledge base was in Evernote for a few years, and now happily migrated to Obsidian.

Can I ask what your use-cases were for Evernote, and how well they all migrated to Obsidian?

When I think over my Evernote usage, for me it really boils down to three things:

1. Evergreen notes, like lists of books to read

2. Wiki-ish knowledgebase for work, like how do I get data from this server, or whatever

3. Digital shoebox: the place to throw old receipts, tax returns, contracts, whatever. Mostly throw it in and forget it, but useful for the 1% of time when I need to find something and it's magically there.

Numbers 1 and 2 could easily be moved to Obsidian, but I don't know if 3 would work.

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Post by Isthatablackgsd »

bachmeier wrote: post #186
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've been using Joplin heavily for a few months. That is likely to come to an end, though, as it hasn't been syncing to OneDrive properly. Some notes simply will not sync even if I click the button manually. Then there's the web clipper that has stopped working. And a variety of other small issues. I was really happy with it for a while.

I has been using Joplin for a while with OneDrive syncing. The only way I found to keep Joplin synced with OneDrive is set the folder in your computer to keep it local as possible. Right click the folder (the Joplin folder) in OneDrive and click "Always keep on this device". So this way it will be less sync issues.

With this option enabled, it kept my Joplin synced across five devices without issues and all of them have this option enabled. My Joplin have 5-seconds delay of syncing between devices. I have about 100 notes/subnotes, I'm not sure if the amount of notes is a factor of syncing issues.

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