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

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Post by atfzl »

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…

I can't find the link but there was some discussion about mem.ai on hackernews. mem.ai doesn't sound very privacy friendly.

https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/06/note-taking-app-mem-raises...

> The broader hope of the founders and investors behind Mem is that the team can leverage the platform’s intelligence over time to better understand the data dump from your brain — and likely other information sources across your digital footprint — to know you better than any ad network or social media graph does.

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

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Post by gareim »

Isthatablackgsd wrote: post #180
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…

I want to use Obsidian but the only thing that keep me off is the lack of encryption support. That is why I am staying with Joplin since it offers a full encryption. Obsidian does have a plugin for the encryption but only partial of it.

Joplin does not encrypt notes at rest. Only data being synced is encrypted; when it gets to its destination it’s available unencrypted in an SQLite database. Any program running on your computer can read your Joplin notes at any time. The developer has come out against implementing encryption-at-rest many times throughout the years. Their suggestion is that you use another form of encryption, like veracrypt. Notably, this makes using Joplin with encryption-at-rest impossible on iOS.

https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/requesting-encryption-of-l...

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

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Post by bachmeier »

hoppyhoppy2 wrote: post #209
bachmeier wrote: post #182

Earlier 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…

An "export to standard markdown" feature is on the Obsidian roadmap, in the "short-term" column. https://trello.com/b/Psqfqp7I/obsidian-roadmap edit: they've moved it to the "working on" column

It was on the roadmap when I gave up however long ago.

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Post by [deleted] »

jonfer wrote: post #160
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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Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go

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Post by adkadskhj »

For anyone who follows Obsidian, have they approached the idea of spaced repetition or perhaps plugins for spaced repetition?

A big thing i want in a note taking tool is Spaced Repetition, but not _just_ that, more like a way to manage how much information i'm going to try and keep sync'd with my actual brain.

I'd love this system to monitor how much time i'm dedicating to it, and how much knowledge i'm able to retain in my brain based on available quiz time and retention rates (which would vary, i suppose).

I've often debated writing it myself but so many of these note taking tools achieve 90% of what i want, but miss the retention phase. I want to pour my knowledge into Obsidian, i just want some additional tools to help keep some subset in sync with my brain.

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

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Post by redman007 »

jl6 wrote: post #41
nyx wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I've used both. I think the main things that Obsidian does better are its UI (which is pretty good, some annoyances around creating new notes and managing folder structure), and the fact that its notes are one-to-one with actual .md files on disk. In comparison, Joplin keeps its notes in a more opaque format, where the notes database is a bunch of files with garbage filenames and so on... and the UI is, er... f…

The website says it’s free for personal use. Is there a bait-and-switch somewhere?

not as far as I know. I've been using it for over a year and think that there's a free way to do everything on your own, and the devs and mods even help out on Discord for people to set it up. You can pay for the Sync or hosting service, but everything is optional since there are plenty of other options.

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Post by olav »

cywick wrote: post #193
bachmeier wrote: post #182

Earlier 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…

I am really curious: Why does restructured text get so little mindshare? I used it once to make an ebook into a website, using sphinx. The format is easy to write and read and it has extensibility as a builtin.

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Post by pradn »

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),…

Is Markdown a viable format given its many many flavors and quirks? I suppose you can just stick to the common features, but then the feature-set is pretty basic.

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

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Post by kakkan »

riffic wrote: post #215

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

I'm trying to do the same. All my notes are backed up to a private repository, would be pretty kick-ass to get it synced with my iphone. Let me know if you find it out!

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Post by adkadskhj »

For Plugins, are they just javascript imports?

If that's the case, hypothetically i could run a WASM app as the primary plugin code, right? The idea of extending functionality of Obsidian has me super interested in buying into Obsidian and developing extensions i'm interested in!

edit: Wow, this seems like a super yes. https://github.com/trashhalo/obsidian-rust-plugin - this is exactly what i was planning. Really cool!

This is the first time i'm actually been happy about a web based plugin lol

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