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Post by AlanYx »

School-Cotton wrote: post #16

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

Obsidian vs. org-mode is pretty much like VScode vs. emacs. Obsidian has a more immediately accessible interface and a big community of plugins, but the available plugins tend to operate at a higher level of abstraction. Obsidian is also document-centric rather than outline-centric, although org-mode can be used either way. Calendaring isn't native in Obsidian and there is no org-agenda, but you can cobble together something similar with queries depending on your needs. Functionally, there's no real reason to switch from org-mode, but if you primarily want Roam-like features and find org-roam too confusing or awkward, you might consider it.

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Post by shakezula »

rjzzleep wrote: post #140
wbharding wrote: post #67

Between Obsidian, Roam, Amplenote, and Reflect it has certainly been a golden age for note taking over the last few years. It's hard to remember that it was only 5 years ago that second generation note apps like Evernote, Notion and Bear were the only viable options unless you wanted a 1st gen app like OneNote or Workflowy. What might be most interesting about the new set of fast moving note apps is that all seem to…

I'd love to use obsidian, but the mobile app does not allow specifying the folder. As a result on iOS you can only use the official syncing method. Maybe it's so you pay for the app, but I would personally rather pay a few for that functionality.

Uh, this can’t be true cause I have my Obsidian mobile vault set to my iCloud and use that for syncing and backup and it works pretty much perfectly.

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Post by koenvdb »

veidr wrote: post #90

Congratulations, and also: holy fucking shit!! no app has changed my day-to-day life to this degree in many, many years. I use Obsidian every morning on my roof deck for my journal (automated with the plugin, of course) and then at my desk all day long for my daily WTF blah blah info-capturing tool. Sure I wish it had more features (persist collapsed/expanded state, even in a best-effort, might-not-last-forever kind…

What other plugins do you use besides the Sync plugin?

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Post by dsissitka »

Kelteseth wrote: post #43
weberer wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Markdown editor that lets you add links to other files. You basically have a "project" consisting of a folder with various .md files.

So what is difference to vscode here? I can see a cool graph view of my links. I guess the target is not directly developers when looking at their paid sync addon, because I would simply put this into a free closed gitlab repo. I will definitely try out the free version this week :) Edit: Found md-graph that also has the same neat graph: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ianjsike...

One big difference is that it works on desktop and mobile.

> I guess the target is not directly developers when looking at their paid sync addon, because I would simply put this into a free closed gitlab repo.

You could, and people do, but there's a bit less friction with the built-in sync.

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Post by chriskrycho »

rcarmo wrote: post #117
chriskrycho wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Well, I am looking at a very simple Markdown file with a single image reference and it's not working. The image file is in the current folder...

Interesting – possibly normal image links don't work but their embeds do?

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Post by parrot987 »

itsmemattchung wrote: post #19

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 "sec…

TIL that obsidian has vim mode... I love it even more now.

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Post by veidr »

koenvdb wrote: post #143
veidr wrote: post #90

Congratulations, and also: holy fucking shit!! no app has changed my day-to-day life to this degree in many, many years. I use Obsidian every morning on my roof deck for my journal (automated with the plugin, of course) and then at my desk all day long for my daily WTF blah blah info-capturing tool. Sure I wish it had more features (persist collapsed/expanded state, even in a best-effort, might-not-last-forever kind…

What other plugins do you use besides the Sync plugin?

Only the Calendar one.

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Post by NoMoreBro »

solarkraft wrote: post #12
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?

(not op) Logseq is open source and really great in the way it connects notes and highlights pdfs, but the sync part is too “asynchronous”. It works well if you use a single device, but as long as you add something else you have to manually reindex and refresh a lot.

Obsidian is less opinionated on the txt file format and folders too, so I consider it more future-proof.

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Post by sharps1 »

xz18r wrote: post #84
School-Cotton wrote: post #16

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

Current org-mode user here, former Obsidian user. Although much more extensible than apps like Joplin, Notion or - god forbid - Evernote, Obsidian comes nowhere near the freedom you have in Org-mode. You can customize Obsidian to fit your workflow to some extent, but not by a whole lot. Then again: for most people that is enough. Most want to drive a car, not build it. There is afaik no such thing as an org-agenda in…

Not an org-mode user.

Would this be a set-up that creates an agenda that works (by using 2 extensions)?

https://medium.com/geekculture/how-i-track-my-tasks-in-obsid...

Dataview is such a great extension.

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