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Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

throwaway675309 wrote: post #37
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #12

Since 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.

Thanks, I will check it out. Btw, Others in Obsidian forums have mentioned DEVONthink as well.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by wilsongoode »

Mandelmus wrote: post #143
beezlewax wrote: post #130

How do you guys handle images in Obsidian? I can't zoom or see detail on large screen shots for example. Pretty new to the application so maybe I'm missing something

I have yet to find a way to use Obsidian with images (sketches, diagrams) as easily as I would like. If there was a way to combine Obsidian's keyboard-based note-taking features (including LaTeX equations) with graphics and diagrams drawn in an app like GoodNotes 5 for iPad, that would be fantastic.

Have you tried the Excalidraw plugin?

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by tluyben2 »

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…

I use Joplin with the personal server; I migrated my notes away from Evernote and Notion to Joplin for my personal use. I really like it; it is fast, open source, simple plugin system and very stable (something I cannot say of notion or Evernote).

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by Abishek_Muthian »

brimwats wrote: post #100
Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #12

Since 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…

try either the Influx or Strange New World plugins for #1, depending on how you have your vault set up (either mostly daily notes or not respectively)

Thanks, Influx does provide recommendations but it seems to require prior snippet in the notes; I'm thinking about live recommendation without prior action from the user apart from just writing notes.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by BlameKaneda »

beezlewax wrote: post #130

How do you guys handle images in Obsidian? I can't zoom or see detail on large screen shots for example. Pretty new to the application so maybe I'm missing something

You can do:

![[Pasted image 20221028163039.png|500]]

If you want to adjust the width and height, then you can do this:

![[Pasted image 20221028163039.png|500x700]]

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by ubermonkey »

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…

Nothing is ever "as convenient" in emacs, and I say that as a fairly die-hard user of OrgMode.

I'm pretty curious about my ability to migrate to Obsidian and away from Org/emacs, mostly for reasons of polish. I'm not ever going to become a lisp hacker, but I ended up in Org because it was the ONLY thing I could find that allowed me to keep notes and to-dos intermingled, while giving me a great ability to pull out and collate those to-dos in a dynamic view.

Obsidian can do that, too.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by edelans »

oxff wrote: post #131
edelans wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

interesting. Thanks for sharing. I should probably give it a try and "let go" some control over the structure.

The structure is there, it's just not in the file / folder layout, but in the wikilinks and whatever else Obsidian can uncover (ie. unlinked mentions, orphaned file output). I guess I learned how my own learning and memorizing works, and managed to match it better with how Obsidian works, and now I don't have to think about silly file / folder structure anymore. Your experience maybe different.

I'm very curious about this way of using obsidian (which sounds like the original "second brain" promise). I would love to connect in private to konw more. I don't see your address in your profile but you reach me at my hn user name with Gmail.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by raesene9 »

callahad wrote: post #139
raesene9 wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not exactly how I'd read that EULA. To me it's asking for payment if you use it for work not at work. so someone recording personal notes on a work system wouldn't fall into that category, but someone using it for product development at their company would...

Hm. Yeah, I guess it's not as clear-cut. The Commercial License docs are maybe a bit more explicit? https://help.obsidian.md/Licenses+%26+Payment/Commercial+lic... > If your notes contain content directly related to work projects or processes for a greater-than-one-person company, then you require a commercial license. (This is from Q13 on that page, "I use Obsidian to store all of my knowledge, both personal and pro…

ah that's an interesting clarification! They should really give that more prominence as I'd guess there'll be quite a few people with that use-case.
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