111–120 of 578 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm very aware of Obsidian, having used it on and off since the early days, but I would agree that the wording on the linked page (for the 1.0 release) seems to make an assumption that the reader already knows what Obsidian is: > Obsidian 1.0, the all-new Obsidian. > A brand new look. A fresh way to browse. An exciting new start. You could also be misled into thinking this is the home page. The actual home page does…
is it a browser
If Obsidian ever added some good inking/handwriting recognition stuff, it would be a contender for the best note taking app out there.
I ask this as someone who much prefers atomization with good interoperability to bloated everything applications (and who has a phone and laptop with active stylus.)
Tip for anyone wondering: if you need encryption, gocryptfs works great.
Now I just need to wait for Flathub to update…
Is it me or am I the only one who took a good 3 mins to figure what this app is for ? Sorry I don't want to sound disrespectul but I didn't found an quick and easy parsable description. If I would show this my parents, I wouldn't be sure if they could guess. :/ "Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base" ?????
The reason for this is these "second brain" and "personal knowledge management" apps are rather cultish and aren't really intended for an audience outside of those already in the know - that is, the circuit of cycling through all these different apps and "productivity" games. A similar app, Roam Research, is the same story as Obsidian, only a few chapters ahead. Roam's marketing campaign actually referred to itself a…
- blanket admonishment of others' efforts towards creativity and developing insights
which you already have and that can come only from inside your great mind.
Please fluoresce and share your brilliant illuminating light of self-made intelligence and inspiration upon us, the sheep-like, turf-sprawled, vibrating masses.
Is there a compelling reason to switch from Joplin to Obsidian? Honest question.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right. That's the problem, it insists on storing images in a single folder, which doesn't scale or make it easy to manage complex notes as a single unit (it's the reason why my notes are folders and not single files).
No, you can put them anywhere , it just defaults to putting them in a single folder for ease of convenience. There's even a setting, "Default location for new attachments," which allows you to choose: - Vault folder - A specified folder in your vault - In the same folder as the current file - In subfolder under the current folder But again, that's just the default location; you can put it anywhere and reference it wh…
The sync pricing is frustrating. You can choose between free (single device only), and surprisingly expensive for a low-volume file sync mechanism. Of course I understand there are good reasons for it. It is so difficult to find a paying customer for anything, that it's impractical to price below a cost threshold. LTV > CAC. Would love to see something like “$200 to enable the a peer-to-peer sync engine forever”, i.e…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did a quick test. Still seems to not support storing images alongside Markdown files (at least it breaks in mine), nor support having a default file (index.md) per folder and have the folder path be the actual page path.
Not sure what approach you're stumbling with re: images, but they definitely support them, but you can literally just drop an image onto the editor and it'll embed it, including locating it where you've specified that attachments should go. The default file per folder is not built-in, but there is a handy community plugin[1] which does it. [1]: https://github.com/xpgo/obsidian-folder-note-plugin
(Also the rest of Obsidian seems to not be aware the plugin is there, the notes graph is still referencing the wrong things...)
Huge fan; Obsidian is at the center of my personal system for PKM / TFT (note-taking, todos, journaling, devnotes, bookmarks, sketches... ). It's like an OS for .md files. It's so powerful and extensible, via eg WYSIWYG editor, Excalidraw integ, Readwise Reader integ, home for my Remarkable2 notes and drawings, etc. Amazing community too.
I'd very interested to hear more about your workflow, because lack of inking/handwriting recognition in apps like Obsidian is what keeps me on OneNote (and from going fully Linux). Can you edit any of these ink based formats later in Obsidian, or are you limited to only viewing static images of things you've drawn/handwritten elsewhere in the past? EDIT Searching around the web indicates that you can only draw on top…
I export pdfs (and rarely, svgs) from my Remarkable 2 e-ink tablet.
SVGs can be converted to Excalidraw data.
The Remarkable 2 also supports OCR but I don't make use of that.