Hm I was hoping this would be about Obsidian-based Wikis.
Obsidian Bases
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#142Is Obsidian desktop app still an electron app?
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#143I’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.
You’re not the only one. I invested months on Obsidian before walking away and returning to OneNote. It’s advertised as a ‘second brain’ but at its core it glorified overlay to the file system and a Markdown viewer. You can’t even manually sort notes and folders. Directory Opus can do that and more. Moreover, the community plugins model is a fundamental security risk and the community plugins themselves frequently br…
> at its core it glorified overlay to the file system and a Markdown viewer
For me it's a feature.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
In the beginning I had my Obsidian folder in my iCloud, but had not so happy experiences regarding the conflict resolution.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
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-..…
I've used Obsidian and Tangent. For whatever reason, I've found Tangent's code highlighting brighter, more colorful, and (maybe hence?) more easily readable. Obsidian is more muted. Steve Jobs would have preferred Obsidian.
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#146Have been using Obsidian for a lot of stuff ( https://bryanhogan.com/tags/obsidian ), from writing posts for various websites of mine to personal knowledge management.
Very happy that Bases is officially launching. My experience so far has been great. It can definitely replace the "Projects" plugin for me, maybe the "Dataview" plugin as well? Hope it can rival Notion Databases in the future, e.g. by adding a Kanban view.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You can also create a code block in markdown and then write the language type at the top. This also creates highlighting. ‘’’go {your code} ‘’’
Thanks for this tip.
I've seen this feature off and on in some online code editors. I didn't know this was a (universal?) Markdown feature. Is it supposed to work universally in all Markdown editors (e.g. VSCode's Markdown view)?
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#148For those curious, this feature is just now publicly launching and before it was only available to people who paid for early access. The Reddit thread has some good discussion about the feature https://old.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1mtxh52/obsidia...
Is there a good AI plugin for Obsidian yet?
I really enjoy Obsidian Copilot (by Logan Yang)
https://github.com/logancyang/obsidian-copilot
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#149I’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.
Obsidian can do a lot, but in the end it should be a tool to help you do other stuff. Just use it for what you want to use it. And if you want to explore plugins, themes, snippets, etc., think what about what you want to do, then find solutions for that.
It can be fun to explore various features and extensions, but set limits and try to keep things simple rather than complex.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
This is obviously for people for whom notes are a primary knowledge storage mechanism, and for whom that mechanism is obsidian.
I “could” stick data in SQLite but if I’m not then it’s quite useless to me.