I just downloaded deb and was a bit worried that it has 60MB, quick check on forums and it us unfortunately Electron :( Oh well, back to vim and cd.
It runs very performant for me. I use it daily at work.
Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
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#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
My main gripe with Obsidian. That, and the fact that it costs almost $100 to have the mobile app sync with the desktop. That's insane to me, and feels vindictive. I'm all for paying for the platform. Seriously. These ventures need bottom - up support. But, syncing is a basic feature that any mobile app should have baked in. Charge for 24-hour support, something that actually requires the time of the team.
Just download the app make a vault. Same it in iCloud or google drive. Now use your desktop pc and copy the files over. Done and a accessible vault in your smartphone.
Note that iCloud Drive on the Mac is a bit random about when it decides it wants to sync files. I ended up abandoning that setup after too many times of being somewhere and finding my laptop never pushed up the latest version of a file.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the spirit of HN always recommending, to my absolute infuration, "Org-Mode" to noobs usisc Windows when it is clearly a non-solution, I'll offer my own non-solution. Don't take notes on your phone. My relationship with my phone is the best it has been in a decade, because I fucking despise using that thing. It's cramped, limited, inflexible, addictive and disposable. It's an awful machine to do anything non trivia…
I actually do all of those things you mentioned but also like to keep things simple and take my notes on iAWriter on my iPhone which syncs with iCloud and is very conveniently available on my iPad and Mac as well. Haven’t found a more simple and markdown supporting application in years. You don’t need to dump all functionalities of your phone to enjoy life.
Fair, fair. My comment was pretty tongue in cheek anyway.
I was going to suggest to the GP that they take a screenshot, and then process it later on, when they do their weekly review or something. If the URL isn't fully captured in the screenshot (because smartphones are woeful pieces of dogshit remember), then they could search for the article. Adding that extra friction is a Good Thing in my opinion, because it forces you to consider whether accumulating all that extra burdensome information is worth the friction. But your solution is smoother :)
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Emacs is so customisable that as soon as I want to customise anything, I get lost searching for solutions online and inevitably give up on using Emacs altogether.
I think the biggest problem with Emacs is that you cannot really make sense of a lot of stuff until you start programming elisp in anger. I tried for many years to copy and paste snippets etc, but now I realised you just need to bite the bullet and learn it like any other programming language and be prepared to do "real development" in Emacs. Its very difficult to be a "tourist" in Emacs, IMHO, a lot of things just d…
> Its very difficult to be a "tourist" in Emacs
Exactly. Ironically, Emacs is also the place where transition from tourist to resident is the smoothest. You can stray writing and evaluating Elisp practically anywhere. (Almost) Everything is programmable via Elisp, everything is documented in excruciating detail, learning about any system attribute is two keychords away, there are debugging and profiling tools built in, and source code for very built in thing is available. If the target is to make average Joe into a programmer with least effort, things don't get much better than this.
Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
#115I built a simple journal solution for myself two years ago. It sends an email every day and I can reply to it, and the response is stored in an SQLite database, in plain text. The db is on a remote server but copied to Dropbox every day (and in any case all the emails also exist in my sent folder). It is surprisingly effective at storing not just what I did with my day, but random thoughts and ideas, solutions to bug…
Very interesting. Would love to try your application if you have your code published. I have been looking for something similar for a while.
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#116I am looking to move from Notion, looking for an alternative. Here are few things I am looking for: 1. It is easy to back up or export my data 2. Great UI! May be its just me, I care about the UI a lot and if it is nice, I seem to be writing more 3. Support for templates, so that I can write daily journal/entries with predefined fields 4. Support for keyboard shortcuts (or mouse-less operations) so that I can link or…
I do like Notion. I have been a paying customer for the last year. But I find that it has too many limitations for how I work. Why can I not customize colors? Why is there no plain text block? Why is there not a simple table? So many basic things seem missing.
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#118This link gives me a 404.
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#119The comments here made it sound exciting, but it seems like it's proprietary, which is a no-go for me. I'll stick to plain text file notes and the occasional org-mode for now.
As an open-source alternative, Joplin could be worth a look. It's a little different in terms of features, missing a lot of the linking which is kind of key to Obsidian's appeal, so maybe it's closer to Evernote. Still, they're fundamentally the same in terms of being a note-taking app built on folders of markdown files. It's quite actively maintained and improved too.
Also Joplin's mobile app is poor compared to obsidian's, and that's with obsidian basically just shoving the same content as in the desktop app into a mobile web view.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why have I never heard of this before? And I'd really like to see some example top-level hierarchies. And I'd ask, still, is is unnecessarily hierarchical? If you only have 10 categories below "20 Finance", why not just stick the (maximum) 10 categories under 20-29 in the top level? You'd still have the conceptual grouping under 2x, but without the indirection.
It does sound very interesting, but designing the system well at the beginning looks quite important (moving categories around later on probably causes large overhead) and difficult to do without experience. I would also like to see more examples. I'm an academic, if anyone here is also one and has implemented this system I'd be very interested in seeing what your tree looks like!
Not seeing real-life examples is the most frustrating thing about JD in my opinion. Not John Noble's fault of course. In that spirit. My structure is below.
- 10-19 Documents
- 11 Scans
- 12 Health
- 13 Travel
- 14 Contracts
- 15 Home
- 16 Visas
- 17 Education
- 18 Employment
- 20-29 Finance
- 21 Banks
- 22 Bills
- 23 Investments
- 24 Taxes
- 30-39 Hobbies
- 31 Hiking
- 32 Running
- 33 Climbing
- 34 Music
- 35 Programming
- 36 Yoga
- 40-49 UNUSED
- 50-59 Work
- 51 Archive
- 52 Work Project 1
- 53 Work Project 2
- 54 Literature
- 55 Code in language 1
- 56 Code in language 2
- 57 Publications
- 58 PPTs
- 59 Trainings
- 60-69 UNUSED
- 70-79 UNUSED
- 80-89 UNUSED
- 90-99 Writing
- 91 Drafts
- 92 Personal Vault
- 93 Work Vault
- 94 Website 1 SSG contents
- 95 Website 2 SSG contens
The Writing bits contain my two obsidian vaults as well as the static site generator contents for two websites I write on. As you can see, pretty much most things of any importance are covered, and yet I've got tonnes of space free to add onto later. Hope HN formats this danged list properly.
I'm far from a strict adherent to it though. Not everything is three levels deep. Some things are much more than that (like the SSG stuff for instance). But this is real life and not an abstraction after all.