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

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Post by dombili »

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!

I'll echo this as well. Not only the development pace is ridiculous for such a small team, they're very responsive to support requests via mail and Discord as well.

I had a small problem with the app once. I contacted them via email and it was resolved in a couple of hours and they were kind enough to offer different solutions -- solutions that didn't fill their pockets. (Needless to say, I'm sticking with their services.)

The fact that they can manage all that is almost a testament to how useful the app they're creating must be for them.

I too am just a happy user/customer and wish them nothing but success.

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

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Post by gexla »

I have bagged on Obsidian a lot because of all the "me too" "Roam-like" "Second Brain" apps which followed Roam. After trying Obsidian a few times, it seemed not to offer much beyond all the others in that group.

I got past that by not looking at it through the Roam lens. I realized Obsidian is the tool I wanted to build for myself. I see it as a view / management layer over my MD files. Also, the features have been fast coming and some key additions have made the tool much more useful. And I really like my MD files.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

polote wrote: post #30
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!) Well in general, isn't the velocity inversely correlated with the number of people in a team?

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

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Post by nstart »

andix wrote: post #17
rcarmo wrote: post #12

So how does this sync exactly? Can I use an iCloud folder, an iOS filesystem provider, or do I need yet another service to have my notes on my desktop as well?

It’s difficult. iCloud works (but I don’t want to do that, because it’s not E2E encrypted). Copying manually via iTunes too. I guess the options will stay limited, as the author wants to sell his commercial sync service.

> I guess the options will stay limited, as the author wants to sell his commercial sync service.

Just putting a note in here to say that that's unlikely. On Android, you can use a lot of different approaches and I actually didn't need to use Obsidian's sync service. On iOS it's more complicated than that because of iOS's way of handling files. Building the integration of any other sync providers into Obsidian itself feels like a giant time sink for 2 people.

Basically, the options will stay limited but probably for actual feasibility challenges rather than personal gain.

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

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Post by swilliamsio »

I tried out Obsidian but its really not for me. The divide between edit mode and view mode is annoying and I don't really see the appeal of the focus on the graph and links - I'd prefer if my notes were kept organised and logical through a system I develop as opposed to the random(?) linking of keywords.

I use Notion right now for my notes which I like, except from the always online requirement. I'm currently waiting for AnyType to be released which will hopefully save me from that and be my forever knowledgebase.

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

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Post by reitanuki »

bennyp101 wrote: post #36
aiisjustanif wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After what feels like trying every note tool under the sun. I’ve been using Joplin 3 years now and won’t leave if I can help it. Why pay Obsidian $4/month, when Joplin is free and open source, can sync, has a desktop App for every OS, has a mobile app, encryption at rest, and I can contribute to it?

It's only $4 a month if you want to use their sync, there is a plugin for using github to sync (if that is your thing) or I just use syncthing and have my obsidian folder there. Edit: Actually, I guess that won't work with mobile

There's Syncthing for Android if you look in F-Droid, at least. Plus a fork with some Android specific tweaks

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

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Post by input_sh »

swilliamsio wrote: post #55

I tried out Obsidian but its really not for me. The divide between edit mode and view mode is annoying and I don't really see the appeal of the focus on the graph and links - I'd prefer if my notes were kept organised and logical through a system I develop as opposed to the random(?) linking of keywords. I use Notion right now for my notes which I like, except from the always online requirement. I'm currently waiting…

> The divide between edit mode and view mode is annoying

That's pretty much their next priority, unifying them into one.

Graphs, yeah, same, never really used them. Links are incredibly powerful, I'm not sure how you're using Notion without fully utilising them.

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

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Post by benrbray »

hebrox wrote: post #33

I've picked up studying math. Right now I'm using "plain" markdown, but I'm starting to struggle with writing down formulas. Is this something that Obsidian (or something related) support well?

My notes are pretty math-heavy, and for that reason I really prefer WYSIWYG rather than a split view or staring at the LaTeX source most of the time. Something like the Typora editor on top of Obsidian would be great. If only both were open source!

I've been hacking on my own clone [1] for the past year with a WYSIWYG editor based on ProseMirror. Here's the demo page [2] for the math editor!

[1] https://github.com/benrbray/noteworthy (disclaimer: not ready for release -- hoping to polish it up by the end of the year)

[2] https://benrbray.com/prosemirror-math/ (disclaimer: the demo page is quite minimal -- many extra features, like Markdown syntax, copy/paste, etc. can be added through ProseMirror)

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

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Post by cwdegidio »

hebrox wrote: post #33

I've picked up studying math. Right now I'm using "plain" markdown, but I'm starting to struggle with writing down formulas. Is this something that Obsidian (or something related) support well?

I'm currently using Obsidian to convert my handwritten notes to .md files for Discrete Math. Besides the links already mentioned, this one is great as well as it gives some quick reference examples.

https://math.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/5020/mathjax-b...

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