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

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Post by douglaswlance »

woodrowbarlow wrote: post #169
douglaswlance wrote: post #141

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> 3. As extensible as possible. The app would need to be open source for this to be possible. It's still possible to make money with an open-source product. When you're targeting a developer audience, it might even be more profitable to be open-source.

proprietary software can totally be extensible, that's what plugin APIs are for. foss is cool and all, but i don't buy the implication that it's some sort of civic duty for developers to release under a foss license.

Is an open-source piece of software more extensible than closed-source? If so, then if the goal is to maximize extensibility, then open-source is required.

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

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Post by ddrdrck_ »

hkh28 wrote: post #225

As several people have pointed out, both the "Personal" and "Catalyst" licenses are intended for personal use only, making this quite an expensive product should I want to use it for work as well. But in the full license text, there seems to be an even more problematic phrasing: > The use of OBSIDIAN for the exercise of your own trade or profession (...) does not qualify as personal use. I would interpret this to mea…

Commercial license is 50$ per year. Not even 5 bucks per month. I do not think this qualifies as "expensive", especially if you intend to use it for work related stuff

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

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Post by ericax »

hkh28 wrote: post #225

As several people have pointed out, both the "Personal" and "Catalyst" licenses are intended for personal use only, making this quite an expensive product should I want to use it for work as well. But in the full license text, there seems to be an even more problematic phrasing: > The use of OBSIDIAN for the exercise of your own trade or profession (...) does not qualify as personal use. I would interpret this to mea…

Hi there! Sorry it's our first time doing a license like this.

If I understand correctly, licenses are usually written more strictly for legal purposes, but in my opinion your use case sounds like it should belong to personal use.

If anyone has pointers for us to make the license text more clear, please let me know!

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

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Post by fao_ »

ddrdrck_ wrote: post #232
hkh28 wrote: post #225

As several people have pointed out, both the "Personal" and "Catalyst" licenses are intended for personal use only, making this quite an expensive product should I want to use it for work as well. But in the full license text, there seems to be an even more problematic phrasing: > The use of OBSIDIAN for the exercise of your own trade or profession (...) does not qualify as personal use. I would interpret this to mea…

Commercial license is 50$ per year. Not even 5 bucks per month. I do not think this qualifies as "expensive", especially if you intend to use it for work related stuff

I mean, if you're in a software job, sure. But in total for a year, it's almost 1 month worth of rent in the city that's close to me.

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

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Post by s_trumpet »

loughnane wrote: post #137
m-p-3 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could build a knowledge base in https://joplinapp.org/ and store/sync it the way you want. I don't see any restrictions regarding corporate usage.

I was actually using Joplin for the past year after migrating to evernote. I really liked it but am now migrating to something with a little more flexibility around structuring. Thinking to structure it around hugo.

I'm checking out Joplin on this suggestion. Couple of questions - In what way did you use it? And what were your problems with it?

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

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Post by [deleted] »

loughnane wrote: post #137
m-p-3 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You could build a knowledge base in https://joplinapp.org/ and store/sync it the way you want. I don't see any restrictions regarding corporate usage.

I was actually using Joplin for the past year after migrating to evernote. I really liked it but am now migrating to something with a little more flexibility around structuring. Thinking to structure it around hugo.

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

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Post by MiroF »

bachmeier wrote: post #210
MiroF wrote: post #200

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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.

Dynalist doesn't have the first class local markdown support like this!

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

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Post by Waterluvian »

fao_ wrote: post #234
ddrdrck_ wrote: post #232

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Commercial license is 50$ per year. Not even 5 bucks per month. I do not think this qualifies as "expensive", especially if you intend to use it for work related stuff

I mean, if you're in a software job, sure. But in total for a year, it's almost 1 month worth of rent in the city that's close to me.

Rent is $50 a month?

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

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Post by read_if_gay_ »

karakanb wrote: post #205

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 wa…

Any time you spend more than a few minutes solving any problem, note how you did it. For example, I have a full log of what I did to set up my Hackintosh, or code snippets on how to use some library or how to fix when my PC doesn’t recognize the Arduino etc.

This instantly fixes any situations where you run into the same problem again but you don’t remember the details how you solved it. At least to me, that happens quite a lot. Your future self will thank you.

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

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Post by cecja »

douglaswlance wrote: post #231
woodrowbarlow wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

proprietary software can totally be extensible, that's what plugin APIs are for. foss is cool and all, but i don't buy the implication that it's some sort of civic duty for developers to release under a foss license.

Is an open-source piece of software more extensible than closed-source? If so, then if the goal is to maximize extensibility, then open-source is required.

it's not as black and white as you want to paint it.
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