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Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by mpawelski »

throwaway180118 wrote: post #8

I've seen a lot of recent posts about Obsidian in the past week. If it's a marketing tactic then it might be working on me. I hope it's a decent product and not just some PR stunt.

It recently got 1.0 version.

But before that it was already really popular, there are tons of YouTube videos with people describing how they use it, houdreds of opensource plugins, people even sell paid courses about it. It's amazing to me how popular it got is such a short time.

So I was actually quite surprised how little before v1.0 it appeared on HN, especially when most of plugins are on github and have many stars, so clearly developers were using it.

For me this is the first "notes" app that I enjoy using. I can totally recommend it. Before it was just a text file or OneNote (for which i found some migration tool to Obsidian) . To me Obsidian still has many annoying isuues but much more advantages, and I see it's only improving with each version.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by emptyparadise »

mellavora wrote: post #135
manbash wrote: post #19

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I am constantly finding myself deliberating whether I should or shouldn't use folders in my Obsidian vault. Most of the times folders feel artificial. I prefer tags nowadays as the single source. The times I separate to a folder is for very-specific Dataview data-only pages, and for storing assets such as images.

I prefer folders. Memory, on a biological level, is tied very strongly to place or paths. Not just in humans, not just in mammals. My folder hierarchy gives me a path that lets me find things. I remember where I put them, I remember where to find them. If I need to search, fd and rg at a high level of the folder tree is a godsend. Tags mean it is just floating in some cloud somewhere, locationless. There can be frict…

My problem with folders is that I always find having just one path annoying. Don't have this problem with hyperlinks.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by jatins »

chriskrycho wrote: post #194
jatins wrote: post #3

no shade, but just reading this I was sure this was written by someone who works in BigTech. Because this was very reminiscent of ceremony required for BigTech performance reviews.

It happens to be the case that I do (I am at LinkedIn) but I actually started this years ago when I was working as an independent contractor/consultant. It was the only way I could keep track of having many, many different things in flight: I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going. It actually started out as just a way to help build the nece…

> I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going.

That's impressive. Probably deserves a blog post of itself on how you managed to squeeze in extra 4 hours in a day.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by rpastuszak »

0x008 wrote: post #172
rpastuszak wrote: post #121

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I've just transitioned from Apple Notes to Obsidian and so far I'm loving it. In terms of high quality free software (not nec. OSS) it feels like the same league as Blender. It's so simple and so powerful. I use it for ad hoc notes and research (e.g. project ideas, an ML-course I'm taking now, random interesting subjects beyond tech) as well as for daily journaling. I start my day by writing in a "stream of conscious…

Its not the same - I know, but you can try these options to get a similar experience in obsidian: - https://forum.obsidian.md/t/zen-focus-mode-with-automation/3... - https://github.com/deathau/cm-typewriter-scroll-obsidian with Zen-Mode enabled.

Not the same, but interesting nevertheless. I saw similar tools for vim when I was researching enso. I can't find the plugin now, but the poor man's version is this:

    :set scrolloff=999
I like the typewriter scroll approach because it allows you not to move your eyes when writing.

I was thinking about "anchoring" not the current line, but the current word. Should take a few seconds to prototype.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by eitland »

srcreigh wrote: post #208
eitland wrote: post #87

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I used Joplin for some time. It is really good and it has been very stable. Using Joplin Web Clipper from Firefox I could also snip pages (or parts of pages) into Joplin. But the most amazing thing is that - it works on mobile devices as well. - No lock in: it syncs flawlessly (AFAIK) over WebDAV so I can sync all my data using a really inexpensive Hetzner instance. Personally I happily used it for a long time but al…

Can you describe the things you like about Logseq at the moment?

Effortless switching between input and reading mode.

Automation features works seamlessly and makes sense to me.

No lock in (was true for Joplin as well).

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by rpastuszak »

tuvi13 wrote: post #175
rpastuszak wrote: post #121

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I've just transitioned from Apple Notes to Obsidian and so far I'm loving it. In terms of high quality free software (not nec. OSS) it feels like the same league as Blender. It's so simple and so powerful. I use it for ad hoc notes and research (e.g. project ideas, an ML-course I'm taking now, random interesting subjects beyond tech) as well as for daily journaling. I start my day by writing in a "stream of conscious…

I am going to use that serene enso thingy you built :-)

Please do, and let me know how it goes!

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by Siira »

sn41 wrote: post #9

I'm an ardent Emacs user for the past 20+ years. But I am considering writing a book, and the "throw things in anyhow, get things back" facility of Obsidian is quite useful for catching disparate thoughts to later incorporate into a flow in the final text.. Of course there is a mode in Emacs supporting obsidian-like facility, but does not feel as convenient - autocomplete never quite works as smooth as it does in Obs…

Obsidian is good, but emacs UX and power are on a whole other level if you invest in it. I recently integrated and extended a presentation mode for my org files. It allowed me to reuse all my emacs goodies when creating slides, and all the content is easily searchable and linkable. It is even a great UX when presenting; I could very easily jump between slides to show the relevant slides when questions came up. It’s exportable to beautiful HTML, too.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by Siira »

sn41 wrote: post #83
chungus wrote: post #42

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What Emacs mode might that be? And are there more reasons it falls short, besides the autocomplete?

There is a simple mode available on melpa, called obsidian. The issue with it which I am facing is that if you link using markdown in actual Obsidian, it is able to find the link in whichever subfolder of the vault the target is in. But this does not seem to work with the emacs mode. It searches only the top vault path - so creates a new file when the file actually already exists in some subfolder. Maybe it is someth…

You can use vanilla org-mode with ID links. Or you can define a custom link type in org-mode, where the sky is the limit. Or you use org-roam V2.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by kar5pt »

prithsr wrote: post #177

I know this thread seems to be Obsidian specific, but wanted to share: I've been writing down every detail of my day since January 2021 on Diarly. I pay $15 a year to have it sync across iCloud devices. I have two "journals" - one for personal, and one for work. From thoughts, to encounters during the day, to what food I ate, I write everything. It has dramatically improved my day-to-day. I've had trouble remembering…

Are you concerned with the privacy implications of uploading every detail of your life to a cloud server?
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