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Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by larve »

eternityforest wrote: post #24
groby_b wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I would consider reaching out to see if you can get a special pricing. The team is very inclusive and communicative!

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by mpalmer »

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).

Obsidian has been around for years at this point. It's completely free to use without limitations on functionality. They make money by charging for sync, but are happy to point out that there are free options to sync data.

So where are these anti-user features? Why does the business model lead to them? "Not open source" doesn't count.

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by dangoor »

adamgordonbell wrote: post #23

Anyone looked at Tana? I'm really liking the concept they call super tags. Makes it easy to extract structure from what is just a giant document of nested lists.

I've been using Tana the past few weeks (after more than 2 years in Obsidian). I quite like it in general, but it's really a big step up for tracking the details of the fiction I'm working on right now.

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by rhtgrg »

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/

I've documented some of my improvements to Foam and my workflow [0], brings it very close to endgame for me.

[0] https://csh.rit.edu/~rg/productivity/20221109203834/

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by dunham »

mpalmer wrote: post #34
stonepresto wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Obsidian has been around for years at this point. It's completely free to use without limitations on functionality. They make money by charging for sync, but are happy to point out that there are free options to sync data. So where are these anti-user features? Why does the business model lead to them? "Not open source" doesn't count.

I have no idea what features are "anti-user", but I would note that it is not free for commercial use. I'm paying for Obsidian sync and still can't use Obsidian for work. (At the moment, I'm using logseq there.)

https://obsidian.md/eula

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by 0xCMP »

miobrien wrote: post #18

Cool post. Definitely impressed with Obsidian. Not a huge fan of the UI on iOS. For some reason I keep getting drawn back to iOS Notes for ease of use.

iOS Notes should be enough for anyone, but I hate that you can't link between notes in any reasonable way (sharing the note to myself sucks and forcing the system to give you the note id and creating your own internal notes link is tedious).

I basically use iOS Notes as a dumping ground and then occasionally clean it out like an Inbox. Mostly deleting things, but sometimes moving it into my Obsidian vault.

In theory Drafts is even better for this because it supports Markdown and is designed to be a dumping ground and rapid processing of the notes.

Re: Digital Gardening in Obsidian

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Post by koch »

anon2022dot00 wrote: post #26
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

See also: https://markwhen.com

In a similar vein except for plotting events that I've been working on

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