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

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Post by feteru »

adkadskhj wrote: post #253
pwdisswordfish8 wrote: post #238

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 h…

Others have talked about using multiple apps with their markdown files, I think it shouldn't be an issue to have it seamlessly sync.

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Post by garfieldnate »

I've never heard of it before, but all I can say is: finally! It's exactly what I've been looking for. Well, almost. I'd love if it were open source. But my data remains in plaintext files in a format I can parse myself, so it's close enough. I've used Sublime Text since forever under the same conditions.

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Post by d4rkp4ttern »

counternotions wrote: post #310
d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #303

Suggestion -- addressing friction at initial note-capture stage can help a lot with adopting Obsidian. As an example, I was looking to see if there's an easy way to capture links (with titles) I find while browsing on iOS. I saw that Obsidian doesn't show up in the iOS share-sheet. Ok, so I tried the next best thing -- copy the link + title (via an iOS shortcut), and then I tried pasting it into Obsidian -- and I fac…

Bear is my primary notes app on iOS because of this. Share to Bear as a markdown-formatted titled link or the full web page content, and from there I can also prepend or append to an existing note.

Interesting. I wonder what makes the share-sheet feature so hard to implement.

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Post by TooSmugToFail »

Obsidian is an amazing note taking app.

A spectacularly efficient and dedicated two-person dev team, and an awesome community.

I was brought to Obsidian when I was looking for a replacement for Roam. Quickly after I made the switch, I realised Obsidian is a much more powerful tool.

As a plus, Obsidian is free of that quasi-intellectual pretence that Roam ‘ecosystem’ is ripe with.

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Post by antifa »

pradn wrote: post #228
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.

Almost everything else fucks with my copy&paste-ables, and is a forced WYSIWYG with no escape hatch (or recently removed it) and no dark mode, and doesn't support markdown at all, so yes the market definitely exists.

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Post by Gatsky »

EleanorKonik wrote: post #307
Gatsky wrote: post #77

Great. You need to use the paid sync option if you want full mobile funcitonality and also use the desktop apps. I guess icloud works if you are all apple only, but no E2E. Another option on mobile is to use Ulysses to edit notes stored on whatever compatible sync service you are using, but you don't get the full Obsidian functionality (or E2E). If you mainly just type notes and don't do a lot of linking etc then it…

I've been having success with Dropbox/Dropsync into the Obsidian directory on my android device, and I know some folks have been using Syncthing without a hitch. The paid Obsidian Sync is just the only one they promise to "fully support" since they can't bugfix other apps, as far as I know.

Yes android is OK but this doesn’t work on iOS I think.

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Post by gauchojs »

whimsicalism wrote: post #208
EleanorKonik wrote: post #169

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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.

Currently looking all over the place for a good markdown backed out liner. I currently used Logseq with the storage synced by Obsidian.

OTOH... I kinda assumed outlining was awesome for taking notes and jumped on the Roam (and Logseq) hype train, but recently noticed how "thinking" with free text works better in most cases. Markdown lists in Obsidian/VsCode when lists are really needed.a

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Post by inside_out_life »

rvieira wrote: post #212
nsriv wrote: post #210

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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.

Unfortunately Obsidian cannot replace apps like Agenda or noteplan for me, because it doesn't sync with external calendars. I still use it for most stuff though.

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Post by inside_out_life »

whimsicalism wrote: post #243
adkadskhj wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In your mind how do LogSeq and Obsidian differ?

LogSeq is an outliner (like Workflowy, the prototypical example) whereas Obsidian is a note-taking/graph app. They're both markdown backed, which is nice.

Obsidian with plugins can be a quite efficiant outliner too, it even has tree collpasing/unfolding command built in

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Post by inside_out_life »

nklmilojevic wrote: post #83

I've tried Obsidian and it is not for me. I really don't like the trend of apps being in Electron and there are much better native apps, especially on macOS (Bear, IA Writer, Ulysses). Trying to understand - what is the feature that Obsidian got you hooked? Usually HN is very critical of Electron apps, but not on this one and I'm really interested why. :)

You can actually use these apps together with obsidian, to edit the same files which I do, I use IA writer when I feel like to.
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