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Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by oheyadam »

nmaleki wrote: post #11

Congrats on hitting 1.0! Props to the team for adding digraph support to published vaults early on. Anyone can check out my public Obsidian vault here: https://notes.recursion.is And I made an introduction video for it here: https://youtu.be/tTFK-V3hdAw

This is one of the best uses of Obsidian I've ever seen. Thanks for sharing

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by input_sh »

charles_f wrote: post #14

Congrats!! Honestly the beta version was already stable and feature rich enough to consider it it a v1 :) If one of the key features is a new UI, can I advise to put a couple screenshots in the announcement? Will this be retrocompatible with plugins on v.15?

As someone using insider build and a bunch of 3rd party plugins, they're fine, but themes are a bit of a bumpier ride due to UI changes.

They've marked them all as legacy and are removing the legacy label as theme developers are updating them.

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Post by rcarmo »

rcarmo wrote: post #9

Good news. I wonder if it can deal with deeply nested folders and get metadata from standard Markdown frontmatter already? (I have a fair amount of content already in plain Markdown, as you can see here: https://taoofmac.com/static/graph )

Did a quick test. Still seems to not support storing images alongside Markdown files (at least it breaks in mine), nor support having a default file (index.md) per folder and have the folder path be the actual page path.

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Post by hs86 »

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?

As an outliner, Logseq is too opinionated about how I am supposed to use it. Obsidian is less strict and allows me to follow whatever principle I want to which extent I want.

I can mix a bit of Zettelkasten here, some daily notes there, and some 'old-fashioned' folder structures for projects to my heart's content.

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Post by mirages »

Is it me or am I the only one who took a good 3 mins to figure what this app is for ?

Sorry I don't want to sound disrespectul but I didn't found an quick and easy parsable description. If I would show this my parents, I wouldn't be sure if they could guess. :/

"Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base" ?????

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Post by nklmilojevic »

I appreciate what Obsidian is and how it works, and congrats on 1.0!

On the personal side, I dislike aesthetics and wouldn't ever use it 'cause of Electron, tho. I'm spoiled by native note-taking apps like Bear and Noteplan on macOS which have much nicer UX and UI, especially on mobile.

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Post by weberer »

toopok4k3 wrote: post #20

I have no idea what Obsidian is and their frontpage does nothing to tell me what it is. All I can see is that it's been updated, but WTF is it? edit: ahh, it wasn't the frontpage...

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

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Post by DMell »

toopok4k3 wrote: post #20

I have no idea what Obsidian is and their frontpage does nothing to tell me what it is. All I can see is that it's been updated, but WTF is it? edit: ahh, it wasn't the frontpage...

It’s a fantastic markdown editor. Have been using it daily for a year now as an organization and note tool and couldn’t be happier.
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