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Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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The sync pricing is frustrating. You can choose between free (single device only), and surprisingly expensive for a low-volume file sync mechanism. Of course I understand there are good reasons for it. It is so difficult to find a paying customer for anything, that it's impractical to price below a cost threshold. LTV > CAC. Would love to see something like “$200 to enable the a peer-to-peer sync engine forever”, i.e…

It's markdown - could DIY a sync via git pretty easily

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Questions for users - if we work in an environment where we cannot install applications (and no this wont be approved) are we able to use this still, or is it only going to be viable for a "personal" machine. I ask as i can think of several times ive been stuck with just a work laptop or similar and it would suck to not at least have a browser version or something. Thanks

There are a few posts in their feature requests forum asking for a portable version to run via flash drive, but so far I don't believe that request has ever been acknowledged, though some hacky workarounds exist.

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Huge fan; Obsidian is at the center of my personal system for PKM / TFT (note-taking, todos, journaling, devnotes, bookmarks, sketches... ). It's like an OS for .md files. It's so powerful and extensible, via eg WYSIWYG editor, Excalidraw integ, Readwise Reader integ, home for my Remarkable2 notes and drawings, etc. Amazing community too.

How are you integrating your Remarkable2? So far I have the two separate, and sometimes have to cross-reference. It would be nice to find a way to integrate them better.

I was quite proud of myself when I brought Simon Welker's obsidian-remarkable[0] plugin back to life a few months ago. It's one-way screenshot sync, but the experience is stellar (single shortcut, sub-second later you have a cropped, transparent screenshot of what's on your remarkable screen with no toolbar etc). I find it really useful for both staging meeting notes into Obsidian before summarising them, and for adding monochrome 'brutalist hand-drawn' graphics to my personal documents.

[0]: https://github.com/cobalamin/obsidian-remarkable

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Between Obsidian, Roam, Amplenote, and Reflect it has certainly been a golden age for note taking over the last few years. It's hard to remember that it was only 5 years ago that second generation note apps like Evernote, Notion and Bear were the only viable options unless you wanted a 1st gen app like OneNote or Workflowy. What might be most interesting about the new set of fast moving note apps is that all seem to…

I'm still waiting on one of these upstarts to implement the most essential features of the "first gen" apps, like inking/handwriting.

This is one reason I can't stop using Goodnotes with an Apple Pencil: I like to handwrite. It's particularly helpful when I'm taking notes in multiple languages; switching keyboards every time I want to write a word in another language is a pain.

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Not having used any of the graph based note taking/knowledge tools like Obsidian, logseq, Athens Research or Roam -- I was wondering if anybody has tried them for collaborative knowledge management? Obsidian seems to be single user based, Athens is "collaborative" and "for startup teams". But does anybody actually have any experience using a graph based knowledge tool for your teams knowledge management?

I think Notion is more aimed at teams. I haven't used Athens or Roam, but certainly Obsidian and loqseq are much more single user focused. You could use a shared sync but it requires the end user to have the same sync program as you, so it's not like sending a link to someone involved

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My thoughts exactly. It sounds cool and I will try it, but even at this moment I'm not sure how is this different then for example OneNote. Again, don't want to sound disrespectful and I will definitely try the tool.

As a former OneNote user who moved to Obsidian, I would say it's like comparing a go kart and luxury sedan. They both technically get you where you're going if you try hard enough. And if you're not going very far maybe all you need is a go kart. My obsidian has turned into a personal Wikipedia and it's crazy how much it's improved my efficiency.

Mind sharing your setup and process ?

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post #169

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Uh, this can’t be true cause I have my Obsidian mobile vault set to my iCloud and use that for syncing and backup and it works pretty much perfectly.

It allows iCloud or obsidian syncing. I tried to set it up with Dropbox because I didn’t trust iClouds conflict resolution and couldn’t get it to work.

I can't vouch for it because I don't have any iOS devices new enough to support it, but supposedly you can also set it up to sync via git:

https://forum.obsidian.md/t/mobile-setting-up-ios-git-based-...

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