I've been using Dendron on vscode with some success: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=dendron....
Dendron development stopped about a year ago: https://github.com/dendronhq/dendron/discussions/3890#discus...
A structured note-taking app for personal use
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Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#102Is there a similar tool that allows pasting of images and uploading of files --- that I can self host on say AWS and use S3 for storage and hosting?
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#103Nice 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…
What you disliked about Logseq? Are you good at self-organizing (were you before)? While the initial experience is super confusing and I barely knew what that tool is supposed to do, later on it turned out to be the first tool that helped me keep some structure in my notes. I love note taking but I'm horrible at it, chaotic and inconsistent. Daily notes plus the way logseq easily links articles gave me some decent no…
> What you disliked about Logseq?
For me it was the fact that it's a pure outliner and I couldn't write free-form text. Everything had to be list.
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#104Earlier 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'm not sure why they all roll their own editor. Can't it be a plugin?
There are multiple reason, like editors having too much of their own baggage, or not being meant to be used as a foundation for a mature app. But I guess mainly it's a matter of licensing, and building your own editing-experience.
VS Code is for plaintext, while obsidian has deep rich-text-handling. It's probably not that easy to combine both flawless and still supporting all the plaintext-editing.
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#105This 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 pr…
Capacities too. But I feel like Notion is easier to maintain in the end and has the databases with linked records and you can do lots of stuff with that... not sure why Notion gets so much hate.
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#106The best note taking app ever made by far is called verbatim and was built originally for the competitive debate community. It’s so good that people who watched me use it in college were jealous at the power it enables within Microsoft word for structured notes. https://paperlessdebate.com/verbatim/
It seems to be for Windows and Mac only, right?
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
I even have files from 20+ years ago that I can open just fine, including notes. If you use something proprietary, then yeah, it might be difficult. But that doesn't stop us from asking whether something we're interested in using now uses data formats that would be easily readable in 20-30 years.
Exactly my point, then.
I agree with you, I'm largely confused by the one who replied to you before.
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#108Nice 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…
Try SiYuan Note. It's free and open source local-first mix of Notion and Obsidian.
Re: A structured note-taking app for personal use
#109The issue for me is that I don't want to run another web service just to take personal notes. I'll likely keep using Obsidian until I can find something else that is self-managed and "flat".
Try SiYuan Note.
It's a free and open source local-first of Notion+ Obsidian.