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Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by cube2222 »

malnourish wrote: post #19
cube2222 wrote: post #15

If you like that, I also recommend taking a look at Logseq[0]. I've previously been using Obsidian, and Bear before that, but always structured my notes as increasingly nested lists of bullet points. Logseq is basically built around that abstraction, to make it very ergonomic (with each bullet point being a "block" - the smallest unit of text on which Logseq operates). It also has querying built-in and the core is fu…

Agreed, Logseq has worked for me where no other note-taking system has (and I've tried a _lot_). I believe it has spaced repetition cards built in, too. It took me a day to grok the "structured" lack of structure, but once I did, it has become an invaluable tool. I just throw notes on my daily journal and add tags/links (same thing) liberally. The knowledge network is practically automatic and I don't fall into the t…

> I just throw notes on my daily journal and add tags/links (same thing) liberally. The knowledge network is practically automatic and I don't fall into the trap of prescribing a hierarchical system.

This is what I've started doing as well, and can confirm it's been working well so far. Logseq will automatically create pages made out of backlinks showing you all the blocks that contain the given tag.

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by scubbo »

wrycoder wrote: post #11
sofixa wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obsidian is also self-hosted, so i don't understand your point. It's just a very fancy Markdown editor of local files.

The idea is to be able to hit the server from all your devices, and to have that server and all the software under your control.

You can very simply host your own server providing and syncing markdown files with rsync!

(/s, referencing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863)

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by eternityforest »

groby_b wrote: post #20
eternityforest wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Currently that's 10% of a month's income, not exactly trivial. They make an excellent products, but I probably will move to a FOSS solution if I find one so I can use it for work.

An Obsidian license is $50. That'd mean a monthly income of $500. There's a good chance that means you're working by yourself, so I'll flag that Obsidian only requires a commercial license if the company has two or more people. Paragraph 1 in the EULA - https://obsidian.md/eula - say "You need to pay for Obsidian if and only if you use it to contribute, directly or indirectly, to revenue-generating, work-related acti…

Nope, I'm an on call remote consultant without a lot of hours at the moment, because I just moved somewhere without many opportunities for those who can't drive, and I don't have any income at all that isn't tied to a 5+ person company.

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by moooo99 »

AB1908 wrote: post #8
number6 wrote: post #6

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I am extremly cautios with this small fees. They tend to add up. If I would use Obsidian, I sure would use it all my live. So 50$ * 45 years more to go: 2250$

$2250 dollars over 45 years sounds pretty good imo but that's just me haha

Thats what I thought, thats about half the annual operating cost of my personal vehicle. And it does provide me with a lot of value. Its for brainstorming, maintaining contacts, keeping track of projects, etc.

Just a side observation: Many people on HN do make money building software, yet so many users seem completely unwilling to pay for software. In some regards I do understand that, there are quite a lot of "bad companies" out there that you just can't avoid in many circumstances, but as far as I'm concerned, Obsidian seems like the good guy (for now at least).

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by anon2022dot00 »

cube2222 wrote: post #15

If you like that, I also recommend taking a look at Logseq[0]. I've previously been using Obsidian, and Bear before that, but always structured my notes as increasingly nested lists of bullet points. Logseq is basically built around that abstraction, to make it very ergonomic (with each bullet point being a "block" - the smallest unit of text on which Logseq operates). It also has querying built-in and the core is fu…

Also, some cool new outliner/mindmap tools are flowchart.fun[0] and obsidian markmind plug-in[1].

Personally, I find it easier to initially think visually and then just later convert it to nested-bullet points.

[0] https://flowchart.fun/ [1] https://github.com/MarkMindCkm/obsidian-markmind

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by sofixa »

stonepresto wrote: post #13
phartenfeller wrote: post #4

If you want something self-hosted look into Foam[0]. You write your notes in VS Code with Markdown. Many web frameworks can then generate interactive sites from it. [0] https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

Finally something FOSS I can get behind. Really dislike Obsidians business model; it's going to breed anti-user features. This looks very hackable too (in the good way).

What do you have against Obsidian's business model and what better one do you imagine?

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by number6 »

moooo99 wrote: post #25
AB1908 wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$2250 dollars over 45 years sounds pretty good imo but that's just me haha

Thats what I thought, thats about half the annual operating cost of my personal vehicle. And it does provide me with a lot of value. Its for brainstorming, maintaining contacts, keeping track of projects, etc. Just a side observation: Many people on HN do make money building software, yet so many users seem completely unwilling to pay for software. In some regards I do understand that, there are quite a lot of "bad c…

Personally? Iam at odds with the subscription model for apps but may be better than paying for every major release. I recently started to think about buying software instead of doing a half good job programming something
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