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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 thadt »

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.

Agreed, better PDF support would be great. The main feature I constantly need is search. But the 'open in external application' option gets me there pretty quickly, so it's not that much slower - but it would be nice to not have to switch apps.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by emptyparadise »

ngrilly wrote: post #221

I started using Obsidian Sync and I’m quite impressed. The sync between my Windows laptop and my iPhone is almost real-time. Conflicts are handled nicely by merging changes from both sides and the user is notified about it. And of course, everything is still stored in a local folder of Markdown files. Would be interesting if someone from Obsidian could share some details on the implementation.

Is Obsidian Sync end to end encrypted?

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Post by nvrspyx »

ngrilly wrote: post #221

I started using Obsidian Sync and I’m quite impressed. The sync between my Windows laptop and my iPhone is almost real-time. Conflicts are handled nicely by merging changes from both sides and the user is notified about it. And of course, everything is still stored in a local folder of Markdown files. Would be interesting if someone from Obsidian could share some details on the implementation.

I'd also be interested. It's surprisingly robust. In case you weren't aware, they also have version history[0] with Sync.

0:https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Version+history

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by jeremy0x4a »

kepano wrote: post #228
jeremy0x4a wrote: post #208

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obsidian uses non-standard Markdown for things such as block references, wiki-style links, etc. Since very early beta "export to standard Markdown" had been on the todo list so that notes taken in Obsidian would not be "locked in" because they were reliant on app-specific markup.

Have you checked out the Obsidian Pandoc plugin? I think it might meet your needs: https://github.com/OliverBalfour/obsidian-pandoc That being said standard Markdown does not provide notation for certain things, so it is somewhat up to interpretation how to convert certain features to standard Markdown.

It appears that the feature in question is still on the roadmap, but moved to long-term:

https://trello.com/b/Psqfqp7I/obsidian-roadmap

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by wojciechpolak »

kepano wrote: post #190
colordrops wrote: post #184

Is Obsidian open source? I couldn't figure it out from a quick perusal of the site.

Obsidian is not open source but it uses plain text local files with Markdown support, so you are not locked in. All plugins for Obsidian are required to be open source. Also Obsidian contains no tracking/analytics, and the Sync product is E2E encrypted. The Obsidian API is also very flexible and allows you to do almost anything if you want to modify the app.

How do you know that it doesn't contain tracking/analytics without the source code?

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by nvrspyx »

emptyparadise wrote: post #242
ngrilly wrote: post #221

I started using Obsidian Sync and I’m quite impressed. The sync between my Windows laptop and my iPhone is almost real-time. Conflicts are handled nicely by merging changes from both sides and the user is notified about it. And of course, everything is still stored in a local folder of Markdown files. Would be interesting if someone from Obsidian could share some details on the implementation.

Is Obsidian Sync end to end encrypted?

Yup, it is.

https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Security+and+privacy

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by BeFlatXIII »

wbharding wrote: post #67

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…

It’s not often that I see a mention of Workflowy in the wild. I know there is better out there, but Workflowy and Apple Notes are the ones I already use and I’m unsure whether the others are better enough to be worth the switching costs.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by chrisweekly »

Geee wrote: post #204

Not sure if this is for me. I use one large text file where I put all my notes. Organizing everything into folders and files with formatting seems to be just too high friction.

You can use as many or as few folders and files as you want in Obsidian. Try saving your one large text file as .md and open it in Obsidian. Voila, superpowers.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by emptyparadise »

itsmemattchung wrote: post #19

Love love love obsidian. The tool is aesthetically pleasing, built-in vim mode surprisingly well (a few minor glitches with the cursor blinking) — but above all else, the plug-in community takes the cake. Finally, a note taking application with a decent API that's allowed me to extract metadata and publish metrics into CloudWatch, allowing me to track key metrics and graphically[0] review historical trends of my "sec…

Wow, CloudWatch for note metadata metrics. Notebook organization systems are serious business!
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