Does Obsidian have a web interface so I can use it from other computers (not mine)?
Edit: https://obsidian.md/publish ($16/mo, appears to be read-only)
Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
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#182If you're a Vim fan you're probably going to like Obsidian. Great app for Zettelkasten fans
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#183I built a simple journal solution for myself two years ago. It sends an email every day and I can reply to it, and the response is stored in an SQLite database, in plain text. The db is on a remote server but copied to Dropbox every day (and in any case all the emails also exist in my sent folder). It is surprisingly effective at storing not just what I did with my day, but random thoughts and ideas, solutions to bug…
>the response is stored in an SQLite database, I tried using a database for personal notes many years ago and the problem I discovered was that I can't do a quick Ctrl+F to find previous scraps of knowledge. Instead, I use plain "notes.txt" and use the editor's text search functions (including regex functionality) to locate things. These 2 ways of finding text have very different ergonomics: - SQL: select * from note…
It would be extremely easy to replace storing in a db with append to a text file. (As a matter of fact it already appends everything to a text file for added security...)
However I kind of like the fact that it's hard to edit, and I (almost) never do it. It's a log -- the log of my brain.
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#184This 6-part video series by Nick Milo is a great way for newbies to get introduced to Obsidian and go up the learning curve rapidly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgbLb6QCK88&list=PL3NaIVgSlA...
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#185Does Obsidian have a web interface so I can use it from other computers (not mine)? Edit: https://obsidian.md/publish ($16/mo, appears to be read-only)
Some folks use a remote desktop or put their files on a private github repo so they can edit them remotely, but it's not "the full experience."
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#186This is an incredible time for knowledge management tools. Just a couple of years ago I was pulling my hair out trying to get a local wiki to feel like a native app, and now we have a dozen great options to choose from. I started using Obsidian when it came out last year, and it instantly clicked for me. I immediately migrated 20 years of notes to it. What differentiates Obsidian from all of the other tools in this a…
the perspective that software is good because it's soft- as in malleable- is nice to hear.
i too feel like the more open-potential endlessly extensible form of computing is what's interesting & compelling. it's ehy computing appealed to me & still is. contrasting to computing as mechanization, big systems, & mass market software, where focus is on control & usually core, well planned user flows. this is boring rigidware. yet it's share of computing has radically risen. good to hear of syccessful flexible software in the world.
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
Always fun to see these original comments in a HN thread. If you write this on Twitter you can get hundreds of retweets, hurry before someone else writes the tweet! Jokes aside, Obsidian being a Electron application is not a issue. The app starts in under 3 seconds for me, barely uses any RAM and CPU usage remains stable and low. If you want to actually contribute anything to this thread, feel free to give feedback o…
> The app starts in under 3 seconds for me For me that would be a showstopper. 3 seconds to open my notes app? I would have already lost my train of thought. :wq
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>Draftsmen, designers, accountants, scientists, engineers, etc, they all use real programs that don't use text formats.
Ah, yes, bioengineers not using text files. Call me when that happens.
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#189Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does sound very interesting, but designing the system well at the beginning looks quite important (moving categories around later on probably causes large overhead) and difficult to do without experience. I would also like to see more examples. I'm an academic, if anyone here is also one and has implemented this system I'd be very interested in seeing what your tree looks like!
Not seeing real-life examples is the most frustrating thing about JD in my opinion. Not John Noble's fault of course. In that spirit. My structure is below. - 10-19 Documents - 11 Scans - 12 Health - 13 Travel - 14 Contracts - 15 Home - 16 Visas - 17 Education - 18 Employment - 20-29 Finance - 21 Banks - 22 Bills - 23 Investments - 24 Taxes - 30-39 Hobbies - 31 Hiking - 32 Running - 33 Climbing - 34 Music - 35 Progra…
Thanks for sharing! I will try this out with work files - personal work files so far. If I like it probably also for personal files. I suspect lots of personal stuff will still be outside the system - like coding projects. I don't like to have coding roots to far away from $HOME
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#190Can anyone share their experience using Obsidian in a multi-user/team setup?