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Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by bayindirh »

hartator wrote: post #11

Interesting that storing images is not something solved yet. If you watch the animated gif, he is still using a third party service to store that graph. I also think people to tend to like Markdown mostly because it’s plain text. The added benefits of that preview view is minimal. Like my gut feeling Markdown is popular 90% because of it’s in an accepted way to do plaintext and only 10% for the added formatting.

Obsidian can automatically ingest files and store them on disk while giving links to it. My personal vault contains many kinds of files living in the "Attachments" folder.

> Markdown is popular 90% because of it’s in an accepted way to do plaintext and only 10% for the added formatting.

For me Markdown allows me to write and format text at the speed of thought. Added bonus is that it's readable with "less xyz.md" or anything which can render text.

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by damir »

hartator wrote: post #11

Interesting that storing images is not something solved yet. If you watch the animated gif, he is still using a third party service to store that graph. I also think people to tend to like Markdown mostly because it’s plain text. The added benefits of that preview view is minimal. Like my gut feeling Markdown is popular 90% because of it’s in an accepted way to do plaintext and only 10% for the added formatting.

I believe tiddlywiki stores PNGs as base64 strings, so image is always there.

Yes, the file can grow large with many images, but it's a single file containing everything... even scripting!

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by OlivOnTech »

OP's main arguments to build their own PKMS are: - cost (feature or maintenance) - migration because it won't exist in the future

But their solution is to depend on directus, which can lead to the exact same issues. To my eyes, they just added an extra step...

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by vunderba »

bayindirh wrote: post #21
hartator wrote: post #11

Interesting that storing images is not something solved yet. If you watch the animated gif, he is still using a third party service to store that graph. I also think people to tend to like Markdown mostly because it’s plain text. The added benefits of that preview view is minimal. Like my gut feeling Markdown is popular 90% because of it’s in an accepted way to do plaintext and only 10% for the added formatting.

Obsidian can automatically ingest files and store them on disk while giving links to it. My personal vault contains many kinds of files living in the "Attachments" folder. > Markdown is popular 90% because of it’s in an accepted way to do plaintext and only 10% for the added formatting. For me Markdown allows me to write and format text at the speed of thought. Added bonus is that it's readable with "less xyz.md" or…

Yep. Obsidian strikes a good compromise of automatically copying attachments into a relative subfolder for the note and then linking them in the MD file:

  lotr-recipes
  lotr-recipes/manflesh.md
  lotr-recipes/media/manflesh_1.png
  lotr-recipes/media/manflesh_2.png
Also makes it trivial to run a note through a static site generator and publish online.

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by layer8 »

bayindirh wrote: post #17

> But I felt frustrated when I wanted to access my notes on my phone while on-the-go and saw that I had to pay for this feature. Obsidian charges $8 a month to access the same notes across multiple devices. Errm, no? Obsidian sync is optional. I pay for it to support them, but my main vaults are all synced by iCloud, which was auto set-up by Obisidan during initial setup on my iPhone . On the Android side, any servic…

Not practical if you want to also sync with non-Apple devices.

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by bayindirh »

damir wrote: post #23
hartator wrote: post #11

Interesting that storing images is not something solved yet. If you watch the animated gif, he is still using a third party service to store that graph. I also think people to tend to like Markdown mostly because it’s plain text. The added benefits of that preview view is minimal. Like my gut feeling Markdown is popular 90% because of it’s in an accepted way to do plaintext and only 10% for the added formatting.

I believe tiddlywiki stores PNGs as base64 strings, so image is always there. Yes, the file can grow large with many images, but it's a single file containing everything... even scripting!

Yes, it embeds all attachments as base64.

TiddlyWiki is great until you want to add a structure to your Wiki. I was using it like mad, then I found out that linking pages took more time then writing notes, and I pulled the trigger and moved to Obsidian.

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by williamsss »

vunderba wrote: post #3

Good article but as a heavy user of Obsidian (and previously Evernote), I would offer some counterpoints: > After some mental gymnastics weighing if I should continue with Obsidian, I found solace when asking myself "Can I see myself using this in 20 years?". I couldn't. The thought of cyclically migrating notes from one PKMS to another every 5 years, as I had done from Evernote to Notion to Obsidian, made me feel ti…

Thanks for the feedback! Agreed Git can be used to sync your notes. Its a great solution for those comfortable putting their notes into a Git repo like Github. I wasn't comfortable with that however.

Currently vetting a way to sync my database files with my markdown files on my laptop, so it functions similar to Obsidian. I enjoy Vim too much to work constrained to Directus' markdown editor!

Re: Ditching Obsidian and building my own

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Post by bayindirh »

layer8 wrote: post #27
bayindirh wrote: post #17

> But I felt frustrated when I wanted to access my notes on my phone while on-the-go and saw that I had to pay for this feature. Obsidian charges $8 a month to access the same notes across multiple devices. Errm, no? Obsidian sync is optional. I pay for it to support them, but my main vaults are all synced by iCloud, which was auto set-up by Obisidan during initial setup on my iPhone . On the Android side, any servic…

Not practical if you want to also sync with non-Apple devices.

I think any app which can sync in the background can automatically sync things? Dropbox, Moebius, PCloud, Google Drive?

My Office vault lives in a separate cloud service, and it works?

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