Why does the MacOS app from the app store require an M1 chip?
Not positive, but I bet it's because the one in Mac app store is the iOS version running on M1 hardware. The actual Mac app (afaik) isn't distributed through the app store.
Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
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Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Only if you store your notes in OneDrive. Do you have a source for that? I don't believe this is true. When creating a notebook, I can specify if I want a OneDrive-synched notebook or a local one (OneNote 2016). Such a limitation _might_ be part of the Store version of OneNote, but that's just a guess. Also a Reddit thread I found discussing this topic stated there's no such limitation in OneNote 2016.
I can't edit my post, but my guess was correct: > [OneNote 2016/Desktop] is the only version of OneNote that supports local notebook storage on your PC’s hard drive in addition to cloud storage. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-the-differ...
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Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
#253For 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 supports plugins, but on that note, if you want to practice spaced repetition, maybe point a spaced repetition app at your notes? It doesn't seem to make sense that a note-taking app should take any particular interest in that use case, when it can be better served by a dedicated app, and there's little overlap with more "ordinary" needs.
I would agree, but for me it's a tightly coupled idea - my knowledge base and a subset of knowledge i choose to retain.
So while yes, a dedicated app for SR would probably be "better", i'd then have to make tightly coupled user experiences to sync data back and forth between my knowledge base and my knowledge retention app.
To me they're two sides of the same coin. With that said i've long wanted to make my own app here for this stuff, but Obsidian seems very customizable, so i'm thinking i'll just try to make an extension which embeds the necessary metadata into the markdown files themselves.
Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
#254I was Roam cult early on, but left the flock after frequent slowdowns and losing a bunch of files during one of their outages.
Obsidian is the best. I expect to use it forever, and even if it goes away, all the files are stored in plain text without any proprietary data formats or databases.
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#255That went faster than expected, awesome to see! My major issue with the mobile apps is the syncing. On iOS you get to decide between iCloud or Obsidian Sync. On Android you can hack together something with third-party syncing apps and local disk storage. But if you have been using Dropbox or OneDrive for syncing on your PC, you won't be able to (bidirectional) sync your data to your mobile devices (out of the box). O…
What amazes me (as an Android user) is that mobile Google drive app doesn't do what you'd expect from it: on PC it allows you to keep few folders on different devices in sync, but on Android the app just allows you to browse/open those folders, not keep a full mirror of any folder from your PC locally.
There are some third party apps that kind of do this for you, but shouldn't Google just make their app do what it is supposed to do? Where's the «backup and sync» alternative for Android? That's the only thing I need to use obsidian on mobile and get rid of Keep or any other app, because obsidian on desktop is just perfect for my needs.
I used to use Zim wiki before, and it was almost what I need, but it didn't use markdown, looked uglier, was slower, and there was no mobile app.
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#256This is completely unrelated, but FYI, website is not reachable from Kazakhstan.
I know this is a problem with Kazakhstan government blocking everything left and right, but maybe you'll try to contact them and fix it somehow (I think few months ago I could access it without VPN, now I can't).
Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
#257Earlier 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.
I'm curious what you use as your markdown to HTML converter.
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#258I 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…
Same for me.
I tried to build a [plugin for VScode](https://github.com/madeindjs/vscode-notable) (with a fraction of feature of notable) but I finally moved to [Dendron](http://dendron.so/). I'm happy with it for the moment because I feel less coupled to a Software.
Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
#259Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
In that case, GitHub doesn't support Markdown, then, considering it shits the bed on one of the most crucial parts of the Markdown design: line-breaking behavior to preserve the readability of the "raw" form. (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.)
Agreed. And what is exactly expected to be done, if sticking to strictly "Markdown spec"? You can't do anything meaningful with such a small subset of language features, where as Obsidian and Obsidian Plugins are all about extending Markdown to provide additional features ontop of the language, but stored in plain markdown.
This would only be non-Markdown if it fundamentally broke something in Markdown. Ie lists no longer worked, or *bold* was used to link documents, etc.
Re: Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go
#260Obsidian 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…
it's close enough that you can write your own parser to some other format with a little bit of hacking, in fact that's what I did to port my notes from obsidian to logseq a while ago.
Of course it's a little bit of trouble but I imagine most people won't want to switch their notetaking apps that frequently.