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Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Re: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Post by tbabej »

capnorange wrote: post #36
gorgoiler wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you elaborate as to why?

The reason is mostly I couldn't replace my current workflow using other tools. 1. open-source. 2. One command away from my editor(I only use desktop for taking notes), also synced to my dropbox in case. 3. Amazing extensibility with plugins and custom scripts. Eg: bugwarrior + pomodoro(using Timewarrior, I've used this a lot when freelancing, not so much now) + some custom scripts. 4. Journaling - custom generated te…

Happy to hear you find it useful!

Re: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Post by raytracer »

implements wrote: post #17
senectus1 wrote: post #2

HN hug o death. anyone got a link to what this "obsidian" is?

Seems to be an App to implement a “Zettelkasten“ type knowledge store: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zettelkasten

It does have a Zettelkasten mode but it's not enabled by default. Out of the box Obsidian is more like a wiki with markdown syntax.

Re: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Post by kseistrup »

capnorange wrote: post #11

this is the setup I keep going back to(I've tried Roam, Obsidian, Tiddly) - VimWiki + TaskWarrior + TaskWiki.

And TiddlyWiki has a Stroll plugin that provides backlinks and auto-complete suggestions for linking: https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html

Re: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Post by cstuder »

travbrack wrote: post #34
gorgoiler wrote: post #14

After having used Bear, Notable, and Atom + plugins, I’m realizing I don’t really want an app to manage my notes. I just want the notes, plus a tool to traverse them that’s got a bit more beef to it than Finder.app. I’d like to use a more powerful app like the one promoted here, but I feel desperately uncomfortable tying my notes [in] to a piece of proprietary software . I feel like that was a mistake I made already,…

I'm using VS code and the markdown preview plugin, with a private repo on github. Works pretty good and would support other filetypes besides MD.

I am doing the same thing, additionally I have a cron job running which auto-commits every 5 minutes.

For mobile viewing I use the app GitJournal.

https://gitjournal.io/

Re: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Post by dmortin »

myrandomcomment wrote: post #27

Canceled Evernote a month ago. To many bugs. Using VIM at this point. Honestly thinking of going back to a notebook. Only issue is I cannot read my own handwriting sometimes ;)

A knowledgebase is for storing thousands of notes and quickly retrieve them when needed. Searching dozens of notebooks for the relevant info is not scalable.

Re: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Post by smabie »

read_if_gay_ wrote: post #31
gorgoiler wrote: post #14

After having used Bear, Notable, and Atom + plugins, I’m realizing I don’t really want an app to manage my notes. I just want the notes, plus a tool to traverse them that’s got a bit more beef to it than Finder.app. I’d like to use a more powerful app like the one promoted here, but I feel desperately uncomfortable tying my notes [in] to a piece of proprietary software . I feel like that was a mistake I made already,…

> but I feel desperately uncomfortable tying my notes to a piece of proprietary software Obsidian is proprietary, but Markdown isn’t. And there will always be Markdown personal wikis. I guarantee it. > What about if I want to style a real PDF in Asciidoc? Pandoc can export MD to PDF, HTML, .doc, anything. And you can style with CSS. But once you add spreadsheets and sketches into the mix, there’s basically no way aro…

What about org-mode?

Re: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Post by smabie »

sasaf5 wrote: post #38
gorgoiler wrote: post #14

After having used Bear, Notable, and Atom + plugins, I’m realizing I don’t really want an app to manage my notes. I just want the notes, plus a tool to traverse them that’s got a bit more beef to it than Finder.app. I’d like to use a more powerful app like the one promoted here, but I feel desperately uncomfortable tying my notes [in] to a piece of proprietary software . I feel like that was a mistake I made already,…

I do something like that using org mode in termux. It has really improved my note taking and personal information management. I do my workout logs, nutrition logs, language study, work task management, agenda, all in the same environment, and the format is open. Versioning and syncing is done with git.

org-mode is without a doubt the most comprehensive and powerful note taking software that exists today. It's so good that even non-emacs users should give it a go.

Re: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Post by raindropm »

jakeva wrote: post #19
ffpip wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Offline notes in markdown. So cross-platform. Great UI, 'Mind-mapping' thing that everybody wants, backlinking to other notes, markdown, offline (so private notes). Other alternatives - roam research, notion, etc

I've tried it, I liked it. But I can't help but feel like I'm one of the only people who doesn't need an app for 'mind-mapping'. Am I missing something? Asking honestly, this comes up at work a lot. I feel like I can access things in my mind at will. Why should I need to transcribe it in some way?

I think the problem with general notetaking is, you take note and you'll almost forget about it completely in a couple of day.

This style of notetaking software help 'resurface' those information you even forgot you jot down long time ago and make the process of 'discover' new idea much easier, something like that.

Well, I mean it behave like our mind, just more tangible, in software form. Also, people forgot much more nowadays because of information overload...maybe that's why some people need to transcribe it into something and relieve their brain's load.

Re: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

myrandomcomment wrote: post #27

Canceled Evernote a month ago. To many bugs. Using VIM at this point. Honestly thinking of going back to a notebook. Only issue is I cannot read my own handwriting sometimes ;)

Used Evernote for a while, not even paid, but it doesn't offer anything (for me personally) that a flat folder with text or markdown files wouldn't cover. Then looking at the downside, I don't own the data and if Evernote decides they've had enough, all my stuff could be lost.

Tried doing plain files again (via Notable because people said so, but that also doesn't really offer anything an editor with markdown support (cmd + click to open other file) doesn't offer itself), but by then I didn't really need to keep notes anymore (I passed beyond the "research" phase of my current project).

Re: Using Obsidian to manage goals, tasks, notes, and software dev knowledge base

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Post by ffpip »

jakeva wrote: post #19
ffpip wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. Offline notes in markdown. So cross-platform. Great UI, 'Mind-mapping' thing that everybody wants, backlinking to other notes, markdown, offline (so private notes). Other alternatives - roam research, notion, etc

I've tried it, I liked it. But I can't help but feel like I'm one of the only people who doesn't need an app for 'mind-mapping'. Am I missing something? Asking honestly, this comes up at work a lot. I feel like I can access things in my mind at will. Why should I need to transcribe it in some way?

Even I don't get the idea of mind mapping. Just a gimmick for the productivity nerds imo.
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