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My Knowledge Lakehouse

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Re: My Knowledge Lakehouse

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Post by faizmokh »

neighbour wrote: post #73

Whenever I try one of these apps I'm always impressed by the features but my entire life is in iCloud. Not only that but all the people I connect with for notes/calendars/reminders are also in the Apple ecosystem and they aren't going to switch for me. This means that a lot of the extra features that Notion, Obsidian, etc. offer just aren't valuable for me. It makes me annoyed that Apple's Notes app is so basic.

You can use iCloud to sync your Obsidian notes across your devices.

I find the app experience to be terrible tho.

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Post by input_sh »

rtpg wrote: post #59
dmje wrote: post #51

Obsidian. Total game changer. Obsidian sync is completely worth paying for as well - firstly it helps support the project but also its slick, so well made, and easier than all the hacked together GitHub / s3 / whatever workarounds. From a content point of view I personally find having structure but not too much structure is the way to go. A bit of yaml if needed but just a gentle “daily notes = meeting notes” (on my…

I really wish that Obsidian Sync had like... 5 megs for free or something. I can't justify paying $8/month for a thing I haven't even started using, and without sync I have a hard time saying "OK let's try this" compared to Joplin or Notion. There's a bunch of cool looking stuff though

It's just a folder of plaintext files, you can do whatever you want with it, including pointing your Dropbox-like service to it.

I also pay for sync because I genuinely love the product (though I pay $5/month early bird pricing), but thanks to their file-first philosophy, I'm not locked in.

Re: My Knowledge Lakehouse

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Post by tomcam »

balder1991 wrote: post #57
tomcam wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Having trouble with Apple notes syncing too slowly. Wife can update the shopping list but I won’t see it for 24+ hours. Unfortunately my life runs on it. Problem may be that my Notes file has become a 15G monstrosity?

Have you tried using Notion? For things that are mostly lists I prefer using Microsoft To Do though (I use it ever since it was called Wanderlist)

Like it but I use all the features of Apple Notes. Notion has only a few of them. Thanks though

Re: My Knowledge Lakehouse

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Post by dmje »

bravura wrote: post #55
dmje wrote: post #51

Obsidian. Total game changer. Obsidian sync is completely worth paying for as well - firstly it helps support the project but also its slick, so well made, and easier than all the hacked together GitHub / s3 / whatever workarounds. From a content point of view I personally find having structure but not too much structure is the way to go. A bit of yaml if needed but just a gentle “daily notes = meeting notes” (on my…

I haven't checked Obsidian in a while, can you explain why you love it so much? I hear it being discussed a lot.

I think it’s the balance of being “just markdown” on one hand - you can literally just point it at a folder and start typing; and the fact that it’s incredibly extendable on the other. The better known plugins like DataView give you really powerful list / sort / search if you want that, but you can also make it look however you want. I’m strangely snobby about my UIs, so being able to take a theme that’s almost right and then tweak the css is a big deal for me.

Finally - it’s just a fast and solid bit of engineering. Rarely / (never, actually?) crashes, shortcuts are really powerful, constantly being updated… all manner of great :-)

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Post by dmje »

LAC-Tech wrote: post #78
dmje wrote: post #51

Obsidian. Total game changer. Obsidian sync is completely worth paying for as well - firstly it helps support the project but also its slick, so well made, and easier than all the hacked together GitHub / s3 / whatever workarounds. From a content point of view I personally find having structure but not too much structure is the way to go. A bit of yaml if needed but just a gentle “daily notes = meeting notes” (on my…

I like Obsidian, but this response sounds like you just read the title and not the article. I recommend reading the article, it was pretty interseting.

I did. I thought the beginning was great but it lost me after a while, hence my comments about “structure but not too much structure”

Re: My Knowledge Lakehouse

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Post by pif_ »

neighbour wrote: post #73

Whenever I try one of these apps I'm always impressed by the features but my entire life is in iCloud. Not only that but all the people I connect with for notes/calendars/reminders are also in the Apple ecosystem and they aren't going to switch for me. This means that a lot of the extra features that Notion, Obsidian, etc. offer just aren't valuable for me. It makes me annoyed that Apple's Notes app is so basic.

Maybe NotePlan[0] can sync with iCloud?

[0]: https://noteplan.co/

Re: My Knowledge Lakehouse

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Post by wt__ »

My approximate journey (7,500 notes, 13% markdown, remainder .txt)

(pc, circa 2010) notepad > Evernote > notepad > (mac) > vim > Notational Velocity > NVUltra (still in) beta > "The Archive" (Zettelkasten) > (n)vim

- notes synced with Dropbox folder (could just as well use iCloud) - with vim fzf/telescope plugins for search

What finally flipped me back to vim was using a setup script to give me a useful set of plugins that did nice markdown highlighting out of the box, and then working out how to do things like auto-indenting, opening URLs in browser, renaming files more easily etc.

Slight annoyance: yet to find a way to search both filenames and file contents at the same time

Do systems that link from one note to another help me? Apparently not much. Quite a lot of effort to maintain the links, better to express hierarchy in filenames.

(still using Omnifocus for todo lists, but it can import/export Taskpaper text format)

Re: My Knowledge Lakehouse

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Post by TheCapeGreek »

rtpg wrote: post #59
dmje wrote: post #51

Obsidian. Total game changer. Obsidian sync is completely worth paying for as well - firstly it helps support the project but also its slick, so well made, and easier than all the hacked together GitHub / s3 / whatever workarounds. From a content point of view I personally find having structure but not too much structure is the way to go. A bit of yaml if needed but just a gentle “daily notes = meeting notes” (on my…

I really wish that Obsidian Sync had like... 5 megs for free or something. I can't justify paying $8/month for a thing I haven't even started using, and without sync I have a hard time saying "OK let's try this" compared to Joplin or Notion. There's a bunch of cool looking stuff though

Any other sync solution will do the job - it's just text files.

If you just want to support the project, they have the Catalyst once-off payment that gives you beta access and VIP status on their Discord.

Re: My Knowledge Lakehouse

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Post by exe34 »

dmje wrote: post #51

Obsidian. Total game changer. Obsidian sync is completely worth paying for as well - firstly it helps support the project but also its slick, so well made, and easier than all the hacked together GitHub / s3 / whatever workarounds. From a content point of view I personally find having structure but not too much structure is the way to go. A bit of yaml if needed but just a gentle “daily notes = meeting notes” (on my…

Org-roam and git!
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