I just started using Obsidian. What is the best way to use Obsidian both on your phone as well as your PC/laptop? I use it within git and google drive. How can I sync it most easily to my phone as well?
By using their Sync subscription feature.
Obsidian Bases
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#172I just started using Obsidian. What is the best way to use Obsidian both on your phone as well as your PC/laptop? I use it within git and google drive. How can I sync it most easily to my phone as well?
Obsidian Sync: https://obsidian.md/sync
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#173This seems distinctly in opposition to what I believe makes Obsidian a great program, providing an excellent editing environment and extensibility for markdown. The more it ventures into these types of features, the more they're going to lose to applications that designed for this from day dot, like Notion and Anytype.
It’s a markdown editor, but they can’t modify the markdown standard, so their scope is limited. All they can do is build features around it.
Having a database isn’t mutually exclusive with the core functionality. You can simply not use it.
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#174I don't think they do that good a job of explaining what it is, but the Reddit post linked below included this comment which is helptful: "You know how when you search your notes for something, say a phrase? Well, Bases can basically hold a static search that automatically updates. And, instead of searching all over again, you just click into the Bases file and new notes are just there in the default table format. On…
Related and Bases description: https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/76...
> The idea is that you can store properties, or metadata about the current file, in Obsidian notes. For example, if I have a note about Decoder, I might put the name of the host and a list of episodes. For each episode that I want to take notes on, I might write down which guests were on, what date it came out, or the episode number. What Bases allows you to do is visualize a certain kind of note as a table or eventually as a Kanban view or another type of view. So, it’s like a visualization layer on top of the data that you already have. We just make it really easy to create that database from the bottom up.
> It’s kind of like a backward database because all the data is already in there. You’re just looking at it and saying, “Show me all notes that have the ‘books’ tag,” for example, or a link to “Casey.” Then, I get a table and then I have all my metadata, which I can edit. It’s quite powerful if you’re someone who enjoys tracking books that you read, or the movies that you watch, the places that you go, the articles you’ve read. You can very easily create these structures or do project management.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
Surely that's plugin-modifiable in Obsidian.
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#176I just started using Obsidian. What is the best way to use Obsidian both on your phone as well as your PC/laptop? I use it within git and google drive. How can I sync it most easily to my phone as well?
Obsidian Sync is the best way, as others commented. If you're just trying it out and you use Apple devices, you can also save the Vault in the iCloud Drive, which is what I used to do at the beginning.
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#177Hm I was hoping this would be about Obsidian-based Wikis.
Obsidian is already a wiki in itself.
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#178Neat! Is the 'import from notion' functionality able to convert Notion databases to this?
You can import all the underlying data from Notion using the Obsidian Importer plugin, however I believe that Notion's Databases export only includes a CSV. So you'll need to recreate the views to be able to interact with them dynamically. https://help.obsidian.md/import/notion
I see. I just tried the Notion import on the latest version of Anytype, and they now seem to be able to import Notion databases, which is useful.
They use the Notion API though, not any export option that Notion offers.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
For the grammar: Lezer For the editor: CodeMirror Everything else is custom as we generally don't use existing frameworks and the large amount of baggage they carry. CodeMirror and Lezer we already used before Bases.
Neat! Does it use a library like React? Or perhabs Lit?
Nope, that's not the Obsidian way.
We don't use frameworks
We include very few dependencies, see: https://help.obsidian.md/credits#Third+party+acknowledgement...>
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#180I’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.
I was kinda similar when I first started using it. I watched heaps of videos and had so many plugins installed but I was never really sure if I was doing it "right". Then one day I got annoyed and uninstalled every plugin and just went back to basics. I only reach for plugins when I feel something is missing, but honestly the only plugins I use are Style Settings which let's me customize the theme a bit more and Cale…
Linter and Templater are the two I can't live without. The rest are just nice to have.