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Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

sn41 wrote: post #9

I'm an ardent Emacs user for the past 20+ years. But I am considering writing a book, and the "throw things in anyhow, get things back" facility of Obsidian is quite useful for catching disparate thoughts to later incorporate into a flow in the final text.. Of course there is a mode in Emacs supporting obsidian-like facility, but does not feel as convenient - autocomplete never quite works as smooth as it does in Obs…

As a wildly alternative workflow for writing a book, have a look at Scrivener.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

ThePhantom wrote: post #5

I can see Obsidian being popular because it makes notetaking fun and customizable and may motivate people to do it more. But as far as actual productivity goes I can't see any benefit it adds.

You've kinda addressed your own concern about productivity though - it's more fun.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by beermonster »

sn41 wrote: post #9

I'm an ardent Emacs user for the past 20+ years. But I am considering writing a book, and the "throw things in anyhow, get things back" facility of Obsidian is quite useful for catching disparate thoughts to later incorporate into a flow in the final text.. Of course there is a mode in Emacs supporting obsidian-like facility, but does not feel as convenient - autocomplete never quite works as smooth as it does in Obs…

> Of course there is a mode in Emacs supporting obsidian-like facility

Do you mean org-roam ?

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by beaker52 »

ThePhantom wrote: post #43
scottbruin wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s kind of like saying an IDE has no clear productivity benefit when authoring software. It’s an IDE for note-taking.

When I think of productivity in this context, I am referring to the rate at which one can generate value. Software itself has value (eg, a client-facing web service). Therefore an IDE, which may require an investment to get past the learning curve, can have a productivity benefit as it can make generating software (and thus value) more efficient. Do notes themselves have value? I would argue not really. For the most…

Does the software itself have value? Isn’t it what people do with the software that really has value? The software sat on a floppy disk has pretty low value.

I’d then argue that software has as much value as notes do. It’s about what you do with it/them, what it/they enable - that counts.

But both software and notes are therefore extremely valuable to the activity of doing.

My notes are my software, heck I even call my note system “LifeOS”, which makes that even more apparent.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by wartijn_ »

master-12 wrote: post #41
laputan_machine wrote: post #33

Does 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…

Doesn't Joplin store all notes in a SQLite DB? I'd recommend looking into Logseq[0], it's free and open source and stores all notes on disk as Markdown. I version my notes with Git, but Syncthing will also work. [0] https://logseq.com/

It does, but if you use the build in synchronization, your notes will by synchronized as (optionally encrypted) files. I think using syncthing would be possible if you make Joplin synchronize to a local directory, and use syncthing to sync that directory.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by d33d33 »

i found my love in Trilium what has everything i need and if needed, i can still change the code by myself (AGPL) + files are stored as markdown documents (so i am still able to get into my notes, even if the repo would disappear). see https://github.com/zadam/trilium

TLDR; - future proof file format (markdown)

- possible as local standalone + sync to simple cloud storage (like gdrive/dropbox/...)

- gantt charting

- uml diagramming

- task management

- available on github

- active development in the last months and years

- editable

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by stefandesu »

tfsh wrote: post #7

There'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…

There's also the "Periodic Notes" plugin which additionally allows for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes.
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