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Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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I love this, and used Deft and org-mode for a long while, but formatting and inline images aren't something that's non-hackily possible to do in Emacs. Would love to be wrong about this.

A quick search suggests it's doable https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=org%20mode%20pictures

Yep, I did use inline images in my days with org-mode, but I found it to be rather hacky. It's possible, I just found it unpleasant.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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I have wanted an app like this for so long -- I love it just hooking into a local folder of markdown files, and making editing and navigating those files better. Little touches like, prepending the date in, sort order format, e.g. 2020-05-27 at the beginning of new files, for things like that, it's like you're reading my brain. Basically, in order to win me over, you're competing with JetBrains. JetBrains is so good,…

I use Joplin which is similar to this, and it has a hotkey, Ctrl-E I think, which opens the external editor of your choice

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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For 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.

Joplin is open source and basically the same application minus the linked graph. For people complaining, use that. I do.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Genuine question: what exactly are you taking notes of?

I have tried using tools like this before, but in all of my attempts I have found that I actually don't have much to take notes for; for example, I have never felt like "I wish I had taken notes of this", because I feel like any kind of search engine is doing this on a much larger scale, practically for combined notes of millions of people in a much efficient way than I probably could ever do.

I am genuinely asking this to learn more about and maybe adopt note-taking as a habit, any input is appreciated.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Maker 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…

I just installed it, and it looks pretty slick, congratulations on the launch!

One piece of feedback, I couldn't discover in the app itself how to make references to other documents. I finally figured it out by looking at your web page and seeing the [[connections]] bit.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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I feel like I've seen a lot of similar apps like this posted to HN but as usual the main blocker for me is no mobile support. A personal knowledge-base is a great idea but you need to be able to easily reference it wherever you are. If I had a second brain I wouldn't leave it at home ;). I mostly use Notion and just as an example say you're at the mechanic and they say "hey you got the VIN for your car handy?" I pop…

Joplin has mobile-support and is very similar to this app.

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Sad to see that the only way to use it for work related note taking is a subscription. I know a lot of people will just ignore the license and happily use the personal or catalyst version, but I wish there was something in between the $0 one time fee and perpetual rent payment. I’ll pass.

https://obsidian.md/pricing

Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files

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Maker 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…

I've been looking for something like this for... so long. It's like tiddlywiki but with first class & local markdown! Thank you!!! Add a separate GUI for a workflow-y like list-editing (that saves as a markdown list format) and you've got a serious competitor to Roam as well as beating out more traditional competitors like Notion, Boostnote, etc. e: ah, no inline LaTex.. I knew there was a catch!

> Add a separate GUI for a workflow-y like list-editing (that saves as a markdown list format) and you've got a serious competitor to Roam as well as beating out more traditional competitors like Notion, Boostnote, etc.

FYI, they're the ones behind Dynalist.

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