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Post by inside_out_life »

nl wrote: post #104
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 may not have noticed, but there’s a lot less criticism of electron these days. I think it’s gotten sufficiently performant that most people don’t care anymore.

Nope, it still sucks.

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Post by e19293001 »

beshrkayali wrote: post #23

If you’re on Emacs I’d recommend checking out org roam [1]. I’ve been using it for a while to do connected notes (Zettelkasten) and I’ve been very happy with it. I tried a couple of methods for note taking and this one seems to be the one that I’ve managed to stick with the most. 1: https://www.orgroam.com/

Yes. I would recommend org-roam too.

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Post by journey_16162 »

jonotime wrote: post #137

I want to use a tool like this but I dont like using Markdown for taking notes. Its far too restrictive. Which is why I keep coming back to plaintext. These days my formatting is just deep tabs. Anyone know of tooling around this? I created a plugin for now here https://github.com/jonocodes/vscode-tabtext but I'd still like a better tool. Worth a try to ask, I guess.

I used to use Atom to store notes before I came upon Obsidian. To be honest I'm thinking about coming back. I think I used to write a lot more when I was using Atom.

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Post by journey_16162 »

spookyuser wrote: post #108

Aside from the other praise people have given Obsidian it is also by far the fastest electron app I've ever used by a lot. Curious if the devs have any insight how they have made it feel so performant.

I'm not working on Obsidian, but I'm also building a desktop app with Electron now and a non-obvious performance tip is to offload things from the main process to a separate child process and use something like node-ipc to communicate. Especially if you use sqlite3 to store data (even though it has an API with callbacks, it's blocking).

https://medium.com/actualbudget/the-horror-of-blocking-elect...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16616374

https://archive.jlongster.com/secret-of-good-electron-apps

Also you may want to use Svelte rather than React.

I'm curious myself if the Obsidian team has anything to share about this.

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Post by andix »

rcarmo wrote: post #298
encima wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The limitations are purely on the iOS device. I am using Syncthing on iOS with Obsidian and no issues. Fully agree with wanting to avoid iCloud in all cases where one can. (Also, sidenote: assuming gender is maybe not necessary: his => their)

How are you using Syncthing? What’s the actual app?

I'm also interested in that. I tried MöbiusSync, but it can only sync inside it's own folder. And Obsidian can only open vaults from it's own folder, or iCloud.

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Post by manigandham »

lonesword wrote: post #40
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!) 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!

Smaller teams move faster. This has always been true.

Scaling up teams is to deal with scope, not speed, and usually leads to much slower progress as processes and procedures are layered on top.

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Post by lucidhacker »

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

Hey, feel free to check out this guide if you use Android - https://lucidhacker.substack.com/p/setting-up-git-syncing-fo...

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Post by laurent123456 »

gareim wrote: post #222
Isthatablackgsd wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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,…

For information, iOS is not an issue because all data is encrypted by default anyway. So app-level encryption would be unnecessary.

Those who ask for encryption at rest mainly want it on desktop, as they share their computer with people they (apparently) don't trust.

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