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A structured note-taking app for personal use
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Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Same here, but other side of the chasm. I use logseq for note keeping but I just want the text editing experience of vs code. I'm not sure why they all roll their own editor. Can't it be a plugin?
Seeing vscode users want their knowledge base in their editor makes me think of the parallel to emacs users.
I think you might be confusing the two different meanings of editor here.
1. Editor as in a complete program that is VScode and everything it entails.
2. Editor as in the actual text editing experience with syntax highlighting, code completion, etc.
You are likely thinking about the first type. Where the person you respond to is talking about the second one. The experience of editing markdown in VScode is a very pleasant one so I can see why people would want that editing experience in other markdown based note apps.
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#93Nothing fishy at all about wanting to connect to walletconnect.com
I usually don't like the hate on everything cryptocurrency or web3. But I cannot see nor understand why it would be needed here.
IPFS maybe?
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#94Nice going. I've gone through quite the list of note taking tools from a bunch of unorganized text files, to Microsoft OneNote, to Evernote before it became a total pile of molten garbage, Logseq, and finally settled on Obsidian. There's a healthy ecosystem of plug-ins, searching is highly performant, all of my files are just structured in folders as markdown files so there's zero vendor lock-in, has a very good mobi…
How does Obsidian's text editing experience compare to VSCode? I'm using VSC for everything at the moment, which includes a workspace roughly structured into GTD categories via subfolders, filled with markdown documents. The only thing that keeps me curious about Obsidian is the note linking/network visualization and features related to that. But I'm so used to having dev tool levels of text editing available in VSC…
That’s actually one of the main reasons I like Obsidian - that I can easily use vscode with it. Obsidian’s backend is just markdown files on the file system which you’re free to edit with another editor at the same time as you have Obsidian open (it’ll notice file system changes and update any open documents near instantly). I even have a plugin setup that when I hit a keyboard shortcut it executes the necessary vscode command line tool to open whatever I’m viewing in obsidian in vscode.
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#95Tangential question: I see you chose the AGPL license. Coincidentally, I was reading more about it yesterday and it seems like a good choice for software that can be hosted. Could you share your decision process on what or any insights you might have?
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
How does Obsidian's text editing experience compare to VSCode? I'm using VSC for everything at the moment, which includes a workspace roughly structured into GTD categories via subfolders, filled with markdown documents. The only thing that keeps me curious about Obsidian is the note linking/network visualization and features related to that. But I'm so used to having dev tool levels of text editing available in VSC…
Same here, but other side of the chasm. I use logseq for note keeping but I just want the text editing experience of vs code. I'm not sure why they all roll their own editor. Can't it be a plugin?
I tried Dendron, and I preferred to have a fully separate editor.
This way I context switch completely away from code.
Also it annoying to swap workspaces and keep the up.
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#97Nice but, does a note taking app with 3 contributors need a Discord?
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
Logseq is "Everything plus the kitchen sink" when compared to Obsidian out of the box. For me, I already have a daily planning and project management tool, and it's called Pagico. What I needed is a note taking application. Simple, down to earth, knowledge base. A successor to Zim wiki, I may say. That thing is Obsidian. I tried to resist to moving it for so long because it's closed source, but it creates value and e…
Logseq is great, but I definitely agree that everything around it (docs, website, ...) is terrible. They really need to rework their marketing pitch and give proper docs. Right now you have docs scattered across 3 websites, and the only useful one is made in Logseq itself, which isn't a good system for scaling documentation.
The sad part is that the tool is really underrated.
You don't need to even think where to put notes.
All that overwhelm that all the folks are speaking about, just start writing in your daily page, when you look back -> you have a clear link.
It actually kills ambiguity without having folders and having too much un-needed structure (obviously use-case varies).
Logseq doesn't need plugins because a lot of it is already in-built (tasks, block-references, in-built queries).
It reminds me of the discussion when people praise Next.js for all the packages, and ecosystem but its not a feature, there is a reason people building these.
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#99This is what I call an outliner-database hybrid. FYI, many note-taking apps are going in this direction.
- Tana.inc (closed alpha) introduced the concept of supertags [1], equivalent to what this app calls meta tags
- Remnote.com also added editable tables [2] to its outlines not long ago (only in the paid version).
- Logseq.com is planning such an addition soon.
It is a powerful combo because it combines two very primary ways of interacting with data: the tree (outliner) mode and the grid (table/DB) mode.
So for me, this could be an alternative to logseq as OSS/local. It seems promising, I hope it will continue to grow.
[1] https://tana.inc/docs/supertags [2] https://help.remnote.com/en/articles/8118336-tables
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, if what you need is a flat file system, the json-as-database approach that penx is taking isn't really an improvement. I'm interested in what advantages you have lost. Joplin allows you to export your entire notebook as a directory of markdown files (with front matter), and from a performance, reliability, and replication perspective, a database seems like a much better choice.
I won a lot and didn't lose anything. Obsidian plus a few plugins beats Joplin on every level. And I can edit all notes without redundancy by exporting from a Joplin database with nvim, iA Writer, find, grep, cat and millions of other tools.
> Obsidian plus a few plugins beats Joplin on every level.
Not really. Obsidian has its shares of problems too, and most of them originate from using Markdown. Markdown is a freeform text-format, and works very well for writing text, but it really sucks for data and structured content. Most plugins and features in that area are very brittle and overspecialized, working only well enough in their specific use case. And gosh, Obsidian has really a huge amount of plugins for data-handling. At some point, it was so bad that there were multiple competing task-plugins which broke each other just because they had different formatting for dates.