Hm.. I opened Obsidian. Double clicked the title bar to make it not full screen (on a Mac), now it's not visible anywhere. It's as if the window is 0 width somewhere on my screen..
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Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
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#172I've been using a Fandom Wiki [1] to hold my world-building notes, since I couldn't really find anything better. It's pretty annoying though, I might have to really think about using this instead. Although, getting my work out of the Wiki might be annoying.
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#173Maker here, excited to be on Hacker News. Obsidian is going into public beta today! (We're also on Product Hunt, come check us out!) We made Obsidian to be your long-term second brain and personal knowledge base. As you put in more notes and make more connections, the knowledge base gets more valuable, so we think it's important that you can 100% own your data and not rely on any cloud services. We believe you second…
Why isn't the snap package signed? $ snap install obsidian_0.6.4_amd64.snap error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap "obsidian_0.6.4_amd64.snap"
Apologies for our lack of experience on Linux, we'll look into it!
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess we all have an incentive to make you go out of business then ;-) On a more serious note: I see no issue with software being a service and costing money if it's built on a standard that leaves the data in the owners hands and in the owners own structures. I.e. Markdown files synced using infrastructure like OneDrive/Dropbox/whatever with some nice features on top of it and a nice UI can cost whatever and no on…
Totally agree (except for the first sentence LOL!). Come to think of it, IDEs are exactly that: a powerful front-end for your code files. That means us programmers are not locked into any one IDE. > And to take it to the next level we should create more general purpose (and standardized) database tools that are user friendly Yep, but I wonder how we can get there. Hope someone figures it out! It's always hard to set…
I too see no problem in a closed-source application so long as the data files are open. I like the IDE analogy here -- you can edit source code with a bunch of different tools. Some open, some closed. But the important thing is that the source code is readable by all of them.
Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
#175Maker here, excited to be on Hacker News. Obsidian is going into public beta today! (We're also on Product Hunt, come check us out!) We made Obsidian to be your long-term second brain and personal knowledge base. As you put in more notes and make more connections, the knowledge base gets more valuable, so we think it's important that you can 100% own your data and not rely on any cloud services. We believe you second…
Early user here. Obsidian is literally the best app in 2020 so far IMO. - Blazingly fast - Clean UI - Free - Sync with Dropbox, Github, iCloud... - Great community I have never looked back to Notion and Bear since I found it. Btw, the Obs team is moving so fast.
Curious if you use your markdown files on mobile and if so, what tools do you use? I’m still using bear because of their iPhone/iPad apps.
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#176How does this compare to Trilium? Looks similar.
Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
#177Maker here, excited to be on Hacker News. Obsidian is going into public beta today! (We're also on Product Hunt, come check us out!) We made Obsidian to be your long-term second brain and personal knowledge base. As you put in more notes and make more connections, the knowledge base gets more valuable, so we think it's important that you can 100% own your data and not rely on any cloud services. We believe you second…
Wow, based on your history of submissions you've really been obsessing over this problem for quite a while. Kudos on continuing to improve your products/positioning.
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#178Can somebody help me understand something about Markdown and Obsidian?
Why would I ever want an edit mode and a preview mode while taking notes? Don't I want to be able to both see my note and edit it at any time?
I mean, I guess I could just ignore preview mode if the edit mode actually allowed me to see all of the content of my note, but it doesn't. Images are only visible in preview mode. So all the talk about transclusion seems dumb to me. I can't see jack unless I decide to stop working and start viewing. I just don't get it. Is this really what people do? Switch back and forth between editing and viewing all the time?
Or perhaps they just decide to put all the content of the note on-screen twice? But why would I ever want to look at the same content twice? We're not talking about folding, so I can see two different places in the same note. We're talking viewing the exact same content twice, cutting my usable screen real estate in half for displaying the content of my note. So I have 50% of the context I could have... And don't even get me started about how synchronized scrolling is impossible in this view if you use images in your note.
I feel like I must be taking crazy pills, because everybody seems to love using markdown, and I really want to like it, too. I know the benefits of plaintext. But I just don't get making that sort of usability sacrifice.
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#179For the people complaining it’s not open source: Why does that matter ? It’s not like your markdown disappears if they do. You would just have to write software or purchase another software with the same conventions.
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#180Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why isn't the snap package signed? $ snap install obsidian_0.6.4_amd64.snap error: cannot find signatures with metadata for snap "obsidian_0.6.4_amd64.snap"
Apologies for our lack of experience on Linux, we'll look into it!
You'd need some snap store to be able to install it without using --dangerous flag. Snapcraft.io is Ubuntu's (and most popular one), though that might not work for you if you want the download to be available exclusively from your own website.
But then again, if it's on Snapcraft, you don't need to worry about distributing updates to your users.