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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.
Logseq is the closest thing, but it feels a little clunkier.
I was actually very surprised to learn from a comment above that you are also working on Dynalist, something I'm a happy user of. While I understand that Dynalist is an outliner and that Obsidian acts as more of a knowledge base, I'm still curious to know whether you see Obsidian superseding Dynalist in the future? Would I also be able to transfer everything I have in Dynalist to Obsidian in the future?
You might want to check LogSeq [0] for an Obsidian/Dynalist hybrid :) (Not affiliated, just a huge fan) [0] - https://logseq.com/
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.
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),…
Their privacy policy also allows them to use personal information for the purposes of
> recommending products and services that Dynalist believes will be of interest and provide value to you
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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.
(Watch now as everyone rushes in to try to say that this behavior is an exception, as if you just brought up that their favorite uncle has some unsavory qualities.)
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 retai…
Obsidian does have a plugin system that you might be able to use to add spaced repetition, but I don't know if anyone has written a plugin to do this yet.
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),…
Does the Obsidian app auto update? I ask because that would be an avenue for future evil acquisition co to introduce mandatory syncing. They could introduce an update which downloads from your custom setup and uploads to their servers. Their privacy policy also allows them to use personal information for the purposes of > recommending products and services that Dynalist believes will be of interest and provide value…
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 retai…
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 retai…
Mochi is a nifty little markdown backed SRS app that I've replaced Anki with in my own workflows. Would love to be able to draw from the same vault/folder between the two.
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…