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Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by nmaleki » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:39 PM UTC

Congrats on hitting 1.0! Props to the team for adding digraph support to published vaults early on.

Anyone can check out my public Obsidian vault here: https://notes.recursion.is

And I made an introduction video for it here: https://youtu.be/tTFK-V3hdAw

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by solarkraft » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:40 PM UTC

hs86 wrote: post #6

Obsidian is my favorite app, and my only missing feature is to enable better PDF support, similar to Logseq. Logseq allows me to embed the PDFs inside the app and annotate them with all the bells and whistles enabled by markdown. Area highlights, math notation, all these things are not possible with classical PDF readers, and I think Obsidian would fit well here.

What do you prefer Obsidian over Logseq for?

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by thadt » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:41 PM UTC

Have been using Obsidian for organizing and running a tabletop RPG session for a while and and it is fantastic. I have whole folders of monsters, encounters, player backstory, world notes, and state blocks. Being able to drop them inline for ‘today’s session’ and then viewing it all together has been monumentally useful.

It’s also been good enough to replace Sublime + directory for my day to day development note taking. Its fast and just gets out of the way for writing and organizing - which is exactly what I want in a note taking app.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by charles_f » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:41 PM UTC

Congrats!!

Honestly the beta version was already stable and feature rich enough to consider it it a v1 :)

If one of the key features is a new UI, can I advise to put a couple screenshots in the announcement?

Will this be retrocompatible with plugins on v.15?

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by mirzap » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:42 PM UTC

This update looks amazing. Kudos to the entire team! I love Obsidian, using it for couple of months now.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by School-Cotton » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:44 PM UTC

First I’m hearing of Obsidian, sounds cool. Can anyone comment on how it compares to org-mode?

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by hericium » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:45 PM UTC

So, without clicking, what does this app do? What is it?

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by nchase » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:45 PM UTC

I recently started using Reflect[^1] and I rather like it, especially after trying the task management feature, which is now in beta.

My usage of Reflect has made me very curious about other apps that do similar things (e.g. Obsidian)

Has anyone here tried Obsidian _and_ Reflect?

[^1]: https://reflect.app/

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by itsmemattchung » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:45 PM UTC

Love love love obsidian. The tool is aesthetically pleasing, built-in vim mode surprisingly well (a few minor glitches with the cursor blinking) — but above all else, the plug-in community takes the cake.

Finally, a note taking application with a decent API that's allowed me to extract metadata and publish metrics into CloudWatch, allowing me to track key metrics and graphically[0] review historical trends of my "second brain." Previous note taking applications I've tried in the past (e.g. Zettlr, Bear) lacked the vibrant developer community that Obsidian has cultivated.

Hats off to the founder and the Obsidian team!

[0] - https://digitalorganizationdad.substack.com/p/stop-zettelkas...

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by toopok4k3 » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:45 PM UTC

I have no idea what Obsidian is and their frontpage does nothing to tell me what it is.

All I can see is that it's been updated, but WTF is it?

edit: ahh, it wasn't the frontpage...