Anyone know if this thing has a web-clipper plugin?
You can use any web clipper extension that can turn HTML pages to Markdown files.
Our community made this: https://github.com/deathau/markdown-clipper
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#222Isn't this basically a very slightly slicker version of Zim desktop wiki? Zim is based on plain text files, has links, to-dos, backlink pane etc. Oh, and it's Foss.
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#223Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's good news for me, but apparently a lot of people don't feel the need for it. I'm still confused why. In general, are people switching modes or doing side-by-side or what?
I think most people are used to seeing the source and can basically "imagine" what it looks like. So they really only switch for double checking before sending something out I would say. Many people in our community said things about "staying in the editor" so I guess that's a common workflow.
I think I could get used to that in notes where I don't embed images.
Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
#224A fork of visual studio to only work with .md files, with an NPM plugin to render markdown as a preview, and pull out links between the files as a D3 map. :thinking-face: I'm not sure about this one. Maybe for others, but not the UI for me. Good luck to you all, in any case!
Thanks! For anyone who's curious, not a fork and we wrote most of the core code from scratch.
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#225As several people have pointed out, both the "Personal" and "Catalyst" licenses are intended for personal use only, making this quite an expensive product should I want to use it for work as well. But in the full license text, there seems to be an even more problematic phrasing:
> The use of OBSIDIAN for the exercise of your own trade or profession (...) does not qualify as personal use.
I would interpret this to mean that I as a developer can not use this to exercise the "trade" of software development. That would in turn mean that I can not use this to make notes of stuff I learn on my own time, if it is related to software development.
I would imagine most people not caring about this kind of license limitation, but it would be interesting if it was intended this way, or if this is just me being bad at licenses.
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#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is quite an odd choice. It makes sense to tier based on features, but tiers based on how or when people use an app is bizarre. Am I supposed to monitor myself so I don't read a note in Obsidian while I'm doing commercial writing work? (Also, their license page could do with some proofreading)
The idea is that if you're creating value with Obsidian, your employer should expense that, ideally it shouldn't impact you financially. If you're working for a non-profit for example, it's all free. > (Also, their license page could do with some proofreading) Interested to hear more! We did a few rounds of proofreading, did you find any typos?
I think you are a bit too optimistic on what employers are willing to expense. A note-taking app falls far outside what most workplaces that I know of in IT would accept. In reality, I am afraid that you are excluding a large group of users.
Personally, I would pay 25$ out of my own pocket for this app, but not if I have to ensure that the notes are not related to my work, only to my personal life. And with my personal projects I use similar technologies as I do at work. Should I then not look at the notes when at work? It is just to complicated to live up to the terms of the license.
Re: Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files
#227Self promotion: I maintain an open source visual studio code plugin that organizes plaintext (md, tex, html you name it) files with a simple directive `@nested-tags: tag1, some/hierarchy/you/want`. I have been pretty lazy in regards to actively adding features to it though. I do have plans on adding a graph based visualization and to add more detailed views to simplify workflow. If you're interested in obsidian but d…
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#228If you use org-mode, do you really need more than one file?
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#229What's the team sharing story here? Can I share a folder with other people and collaborate?
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
All your data is in text format. It's a desktop app, so you don't really lose it, but if for some reason it disappears and your installed app stops working, all your data is already in a directory on your computer.
I mean, the data is the least I'm concerned about. It is the app itself and the way it works that it tightly integrated to my workflow. In the case it shuts down, there's now way I'll spend my time redoing my workflow or grep stuffs over all now already scattered digital documents.
It's a desktop app. If Obsidian shuts down the app will continue to work as long as your OS can run electron apps. If it doesn't work, they're just markdown files a million other apps can handle.