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Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by crossroadsguy »

raviisoccupied wrote: post #34

I’m an Obsidian user. I pay for Obsidian sync, and I love the philosophy behind their product. However, and I feel stupid for saying this, but I just find it confusing to use. It’s difficult for me to wrap my head around plugins, and understanding how it wants me to use it. For now, I’m just sticking to using it for daily notes, but I feel there’s so much I’m missing.

If all you need is just daily/one-off notes/jottings then Obsidian is not at all something you might want to use. Because, as excellent and a powerful tool it is for right purposes, even w/o its horde of plugins, it will be an overkill for just note taking. My assumption is based on just this comment of yours but you might want to try simpler note taking apps - that just does one thing - note taking, nothing else. Preferably a plain text note taking app for your OS.

When I was looking for nv->then->simplenote replacement Joplin and Obsidian didn't even stay on the radar for more than a few mins.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by sureglymop »

A feature I have always missed in Obsidian is the continuous journal view from Logseq. How hard could it be to display the journal all on one page.

I even started just writing the daily journal all in one file because that gives me that but it's starting to get a little big.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by UltraSane »

cloud_watching wrote: post #100
muppetman wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There is so much wankery around Obsidian, it's so cringleworthty. Obsidian is a nice/fancy editor for markdown files. That's all it is really. People have created so many addons to bolt so much stuff onto it, but that's all it is at its core. You can search your notes, you can tag them. Just use the _core_ addons of Obsidian. That's all you need. Then if you find you really are missing something, have a look in the c…

Obsidian is amazing because it is a notepad with pretty colors and the graph that gets everyone's attention. The graph is often the most overhyped and underused thing there. It looks complicated and that's the selling point of all that ecosystem around productivity systems and all that. The appearance of deep complexity and work. I love how many just ended up here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864134

I really hate that article. Taskwarrior is infinitely better than a txt file. A txt file is the worst possible option for task management.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by kepano »

avinassh wrote: post #115

is there any easier way to manage bookmarks with Obsidian? With Bases, I would get a nice UI as well

You could use Obsidian Web Clipper to save pages from your browser and then make a base that filters based on the folder or tag you use for your bookmarks.

https://obsidian.md/clipper

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by bccdee »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #111
raviisoccupied wrote: post #34

I’m an Obsidian user. I pay for Obsidian sync, and I love the philosophy behind their product. However, and I feel stupid for saying this, but I just find it confusing to use. It’s difficult for me to wrap my head around plugins, and understanding how it wants me to use it. For now, I’m just sticking to using it for daily notes, but I feel there’s so much I’m missing.

If all you need is just daily/one-off notes/jottings then Obsidian is not at all something you might want to use. Because, as excellent and a powerful tool it is for right purposes , even w/o its horde of plugins, it will be an overkill for just note taking . My assumption is based on just this comment of yours but you might want to try simpler note taking apps - that just does one thing - note taking, nothing else.…

Idk—I use Obsidian all the time & I don't even [[link]] my notes, much less need a database feature like this. Regardless of how many features it has, it is also simply a good markdown editor at heart.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by setopt »

avinassh wrote: post #115

is there any easier way to manage bookmarks with Obsidian? With Bases, I would get a nice UI as well

I’m not using Obsidian atm, but my approach is simply to store them in normal notes. So if I have e.g. a topic.md file I’d make a section called `# Links` there which I can click on. That makes it easier to rediscover links in the right context.

(I’m currently using Org-mode, but the approach is the same.)

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by safety1st »

raybb wrote: post #42

For those curious, this feature is just now publicly launching and before it was only available to people who paid for early access. The Reddit thread has some good discussion about the feature https://old.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1mtxh52/obsidia...

Is there a good AI plugin for Obsidian yet?

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by safety1st »

JonChesterfield wrote: post #102
cloud_watching wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obsidian is amazing because it is a notepad with pretty colors and the graph that gets everyone's attention. The graph is often the most overhyped and underused thing there. It looks complicated and that's the selling point of all that ecosystem around productivity systems and all that. The appearance of deep complexity and work. I love how many just ended up here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44864134

It's _also_ a notepad that runs on android and synchronises mostly successfully with machines elsewhere. I'm ignoring the plugins entirely but getting lots of use out of the text synchronisation across multiple machines.

I just have a notes folder in Syncthing and it seems to accomplish the same thing. Or is there more to Obsidian Sync that I don't know about?
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