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Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by wiether »

profsummergig wrote: post #121
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.

Off topic, but I discovered this recently: http://tangentnotes.com/ Similar to Obsidian, but offers good code syntax highlighting in markdown files. I found it useful for reading code in markdown.

> Supports ... code blocks with syntax highlighting.

Based on the documentation and the screenshot next to it, I don't see how it differs from Obsidian on this point.

A Markdown code block in Obsidian is going to be highlighted as expected.

Actually it appears that they both relies on Prism to achieve this :

- https://help.obsidian.md/syntax#Code+blocks

- https://github.com/suchnsuch/Tangent/blob/main/apps/tangent-...

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by UltraSane »

pqs wrote: post #124
UltraSane wrote: post #114

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

Now I'm using Emacs Howm for task management. It is based on text files and it is great. Org-mode is also great.

Looks a lot like taskwarrior.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by dpacmittal »

A little off topic but I've always wondered why Ms office doesn't allow embedding of excel cells within word/powerpoint and then allowing reference to certain cells within word with some syntax. That would unlock a lot of new ways to create reactive presentations and word documents.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by blitzar »

al_borland wrote: post #63
dottjt wrote: post #24

As much as I like the idea of Obsidian, I just can't get over all the additional functionality that Notion provides due to the integrated nature of it. In particular, I love how you select text/blocks in Notion and how every line is a "block". I really wish other editors did that as well. In fact, it's probably the main reason why I haven't moved away from Notion.

Notion always felt painfully slow and fiddly. I have convinced myself that they have manufactured their entire perceived popularity through YouTube sponsorship. It seems like there is a better tool for every job.

Without Notion the Notion influencers would be unable to organise their very busy influencing schedules.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by bad_username »

jcutrell wrote: post #89
wjrb wrote: post #4

Wow, I remember when this feature was planned/announced. It's great to see first class support for the Dataview-type workflows. I hope the API has support to allow extensions---I see that it is on the Roadmap[0]. I'm particularly interested to see how this integrates with Canvas and other note types. [0]: https://obsidian.md/roadmap/

I am curious about how this compares to dataview. As a dataview user, I'm not immediately seeing something bases does that dataview doesn't, but I am not a power user.

Dataview can be used for queries that output tables, but its strength is letting you write essentially custom imperative Javascript code that renders stuff in notes dynamically (dataviewjs mode). Whereas "queries to tables" is more or less what Bases does, the dataviewjs mode will probably always be unique.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by blitzar »

cyberpunk wrote: post #36
viccis wrote: post #13

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I haven't really looked into what Airtable does, and I shouldn't be surprised at how much AI nonsense I had to dig through on their website to get any real info, but I still was.

It's a shit internet spreadsheet for managers who think they can use it to "no code" code some feature or other that some poor sucker has to painfully migrate off of sometime down the road.

I wonder sometimes how managers became managers of people who use spreadsheets all day without figuring out how to use spreadsheets.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by steve_adams_86 »

torium wrote: post #82
slightwinder wrote: post #74

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The first sentence of the documentation already says it: "turn any set of notes into a powerful database". It's really just that, basically. It's a database-view, where the vault is the database and the rows are your files. There is a fancy GUI for creating views, and it seems there is the ability for live-editing data from within the view. Basically a more user-friendly replacement for the very popular dataview-plug…

> The first sentence of the documentation already says it: "turn any set of notes into a powerful database No, horrible job at explaining. What does it mean to turn any set of notes into a powerful database? What does it mean to "turn"? Does it mean that a file will become a database? Or does it mean that a file can be interpreted as a database? And why set of notes? If I have a single note, can I turn that into a da…

I'd like a demonstration of what's powerful about it.

Like, why would I want to take advantage of this, and how? I'm with you here. I don't get it. I can stick data into SQLite and do all kinds of neat stuff. Why am I preferring a mushy database trapped inside Obsidian?

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by ForOldHack »

dpacmittal wrote: post #133

A little off topic but I've always wondered why Ms office doesn't allow embedding of excel cells within word/powerpoint and then allowing reference to certain cells within word with some syntax. That would unlock a lot of new ways to create reactive presentations and word documents.

I tried to do it with first powerpoint and then wotd, and finally pounded excel to accept update from word and power point using VB. It was ugly, until someone made a python library to build spreadsheets in excel, now it just throws everything in, and plays it in excel like a power point.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by [deleted] »

dpacmittal wrote: post #133

A little off topic but I've always wondered why Ms office doesn't allow embedding of excel cells within word/powerpoint and then allowing reference to certain cells within word with some syntax. That would unlock a lot of new ways to create reactive presentations and word documents.

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Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by pgorczak »

safety1st wrote: post #120
JonChesterfield wrote: post #102

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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?

It also syncs config and plugins
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