Did he mean to link to his Obsidian config? It looks like there's supposed to be a link there but there isn't.
Yes, seems like the config could not be found.
Writing down what I do in Obsidian
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Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian
#32I've seen a lot of recent posts about Obsidian in the past week. If it's a marketing tactic then it might be working on me. I hope it's a decent product and not just some PR stunt.
Gotta admit i also checked out obsidian and the top review for the app on the play store gave me pause. Seems the app cannot sync with your local server so you'd need the sync subscription if you wanted to use app and desktop together to maintain one set of notes. Can someone confirm this?
There's a plugin called "Remotely Save". I use it to sync to nextcloud (webdav), but there's also another plugin for syncing to a git repo.
And worst case, you can use any 3rd party file syncing tool like nextcloud, dropbox, syncthing, etc since it's just a directory of files.
Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian
#33Does anyone have any experience with Joplin[0] as an alternative? I'm looking into using SyncThing + Joplin to create a sort of 'networked personal brain'. I was originally looking at Obsidian, but the arguments on why they chose not to go FOSS are pretty weak[2] imo, so I'm looking at using Joplin instead.
Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian
#34There's a useful plugin called "Daily Notes" which automatically creates a note each day with your desired template, along with the calendar plugin I have a daily chronology of everything I've done which I deem noteworthy. If anyones interested in Obsidian and daily journalling keep the initial ceremony low. Some people have sections for challenges, achievements, mood, emails, to-dos, etc. That'll be far too much cog…
If anyone is looking for the “Daily Notes” plugin in Obsidian: You can enable it under “Core plugins”.
Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian
#35This is called transclusion.
Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian
#36Does anyone have any experience with Joplin[0] as an alternative? I'm looking into using SyncThing + Joplin to create a sort of 'networked personal brain'. I was originally looking at Obsidian, but the arguments on why they chose not to go FOSS are pretty weak[2] imo, so I'm looking at using Joplin instead. [0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ [1] https://syncthing.net/ [2] https://obsidian.rocks/why-isnt-obsidia…
If I remember correctly Joplin doesn't like you to keep your own file structure for your markdown notes, it has some kind of a alphanumeric representation which obfuscates the original structure.
Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian
#37Since this post will attract Obisidan veterans, I asking for some validation of two potential need-gaps in Obisidian I'm tracking for a while - 1. Live recommendation for Obsidian[1] Say I'm typing a note and write a sentence about echo location then I get recommended a previous note with a comment from a HN user about how moths escape bats by deafening it in a side panel. It's not a keyword based recommendation, But…
The only notetaking tool I found that had support for live recommendations was Evernote which did something called context notes, it was quite useful.
Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian
#38I've seen a lot of recent posts about Obsidian in the past week. If it's a marketing tactic then it might be working on me. I hope it's a decent product and not just some PR stunt.
Gotta admit i also checked out obsidian and the top review for the app on the play store gave me pause. Seems the app cannot sync with your local server so you'd need the sync subscription if you wanted to use app and desktop together to maintain one set of notes. Can someone confirm this?
I have it synced in a git repo, and I use their apps on windows and macos. I lazily use the git plugin to commit and push changes, but you can do at all in the command line if you wanted. Reminder, it's a bunch of plain text markdown files so commit away.
Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian
#39This was like a window in an alternate dimension for me: I had no idea documenting what you do was a thing and the way the author describes it makes it sound like a well-known activity that everybody does. Have I been living under a rock?
Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Gotta admit i also checked out obsidian and the top review for the app on the play store gave me pause. Seems the app cannot sync with your local server so you'd need the sync subscription if you wanted to use app and desktop together to maintain one set of notes. Can someone confirm this?
Cross system / OS landscapes can make it nearly impossible without Obsidian Sync. It's okay for Android & Windows, but if you throw an iPad into the mix, you can't really find a local/cloud sync for them all. iOS especially has some limitations on how apps can access files, so your only options are iCloud or Obsidian Sync. For more info see here: https://help.obsidian.md/Getting+started/Sync+your+notes+acr...
This is untrue, I use iOS Working Copy connected to my git repo which contains my Obsidian vault. It's also on on my android pixel phone and I have it on my windows machine. Everything syncs just fine using a private github repo.