Obsidian is too clunky for a daily driver text editor. Compare to Sublime. Obsidian also sometimes breaks. Last week it gave me a fully white window, I couldn't use it at all despite a reinstall. It should be ported to a C lang or similar.
Why I Like Obsidian
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Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes but this is the exact point. We could have that exact same workflow and user interface with HTML. I (presumably along with the person you’re replying to) don’t understand what value Markdown as the storage format is providing here exactly but I can think of many limitations it imposes.
simpler, lighter, less verbose, more portable, much more readable "in the raw",....
Right, but the scenario we are describing explicitly makes the “in the raw” part not particularly relevant.
I’m not against markdown as an idea of file format, I’m just saying that it has some pretty clear limitations that I think are very much within the scope of what I want out of a tool like that and that weird MDX format they have as a substitute is a step backwards in my opinion.
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#113My notes system is: On desktop: Nvim with some markdown plugins plus Goyo On mobile: Obsidian Syncthing for sync (though previously I've Dropbox as well for the same) On desktop I find Obsidian's vim mode slightly uncanny valley-ish. Close enough to be able to emulate my vim flow. But not _quite_ right. On mobile, I've found Obsidian to be just top class. Though admittedly most of my real note taking happens on deskt…
Mine's close to yours also
desktop: nvim + syncthing + vimwiki (md markup instead of default)
mobile: syncthing + Markor[1]
On mobile I have a todo.txt[2] in addition to the vim wiki files which are all synced.
All this works pretty well for my personal needs. For work I use OneNote because the whole company uses OneNote.
[1] https://f-droid.org/packages/net.gsantner.markor/ [2] http://todotxt.org/
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#114I love Obsidian for being a dead simple UI for managing my markdown files. I’ve found that the cloud features are not for me. What I need is to wire it more organically up to a GitHub repo.
I use this setup. My notes folder is a git repo, I have a private repo on GitHub as backup. Then two moving parts.
a backup.sh script, which boils down to: `cd ${obfolder}; git add .; git commit -m "auto backup $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%S)"; git push`. Give it a `chmod +x` and it's ready.
a crontab entry: `1 17 * * * ${obfolder}/backup.sh`, which is "at 5:01pm every day, run the backup script.
${obfolder} is the actual path of the vault directory and I haven't had to think about it in years.
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#115I like Obsidian, too, having recently switched over from 9 years of OneNote (the fact that there's a tool to import my OneNote notes helped a lot). The most important tip for getting started with Obsidian, in my mind, is to absolutely ignore all of the Obsidian "power users." I'm 99% convinced that no one actually uses zettelkasten seriously, but even if so, it's overkill for when you're just checking out the app. An…
Agreed on the power-user stuff and the courses. I use Obsidian in a simple way, but it's nice that the extensibility and the community is there. Unlike VS Code, Obsidian is (for me) an actual example of an Electron app that feels fast. The quick open/command palette features are more responsive than similar features in native Mac apps I've tried. As mentioned elsewhere, users frequently ask for Obsidian to be open so…
You can paste images now as of the latest version; it was driving me crazy as well. Even in older versions you can drag an image in but that was an extra step.
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#116I was unaware of this until a few weeks ago, so I'd like to raise awareness for anybody who it affects: Obsidian is not FOSS, and purchasing a license is required for any work that generates revenue at a for-profit company of 2 or more people. https://obsidian.md/license Obsidian looks awesome to me, and for a long time I've been thinking about adopting it, but this licensing issue caused me to back away and look for…
And also no Synching with a subscription! When I already have access to the iCloud ecosystem, and Notes is excellent across iOS and macOS, I have never really seen much point in trying to use Obsidian. But then maybe I'm missing the point of Obsidian?
You can sync just fine without a subscription. As you already mentioned iCloud, just put your vault there and get syncing for free.
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
The big win for Obsidian here is that everything is just saved as markdown, so you're not locked in even with their license.
What I am wondering about is that although the basic files are markdown, some of the plugins might be proprietary. So that the part of the contents in the markdown files in effect creates a lock-in?
No, becasue the plugins are just JavaScript running against markdown that generally produce more markdown.
You might get a plugin that produces an image and that would "stop working"; but it hard for the JS to be locked down/etc.
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#118I've recently moved from vimwiki to Agenda (https://www.agenda.com) because I wanted a "proper" native app, and have been quite happy with it. Logseq and Obsidian always feel unnatural either on desktop or mobile (Obsidian, in particular, has a mobile UX that never seems to have full parity with the desktop one, and that is very painful to use on an iPad)
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#119I like Obsidian, too, having recently switched over from 9 years of OneNote (the fact that there's a tool to import my OneNote notes helped a lot). The most important tip for getting started with Obsidian, in my mind, is to absolutely ignore all of the Obsidian "power users." I'm 99% convinced that no one actually uses zettelkasten seriously, but even if so, it's overkill for when you're just checking out the app. An…
Agreed on the power-user stuff and the courses. I use Obsidian in a simple way, but it's nice that the extensibility and the community is there. Unlike VS Code, Obsidian is (for me) an actual example of an Electron app that feels fast. The quick open/command palette features are more responsive than similar features in native Mac apps I've tried. As mentioned elsewhere, users frequently ask for Obsidian to be open so…
> users frequently ask for Obsidian to be open source, but the fully transferrable file format is enough for me.
Completely agree. Not everything needs to be open-sourced. If I'm looking for a framework/library to build something upon, sure, I'll prioritize open-source. But -- and this may be a hot take -- for a consumer-oriented software, sometimes a great vision trumps community development.
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#120What’s the best way to sync iOS app to say git for consuming in Linux else where. It seems like they really want you to use iCloud
If you have a git client for iOS like Working Copy, then it's pretty straightforward to set it up.