I have just tried the Android version. I'm no Android dev but what is Obsidian written in?
Apparently Electron
Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
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Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
#282I really do need to get started on a personal wiki. I might give this a try. It would be nice if I can get the files into git that I can save to a private github repo (I'm fine paying the one time payment to support them but $8/month seems too much for a simple sync feature)
I do exactly that. git init and git push and you’re done. I setup a cron job to git add ., git commit, and git push everyday at 3am, so that I don’t have to think about it at all. It works great.
Can you explain your setup a bit more in detail? I never thought about using git as storage
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#283Does anyone know the name of the note taking tool where pretty much everything is a bullet point, and each bullet point can expand to show sub bullet points. The website is essentially the tool itself IIRC. I've been trying to remember it for ages. I saw it in the comments for a different note taking tool on HN...
Perhaps https://workflowy.com or https://dynalist.io ?
I think it was workflowy, thank you. Looks like they've added a ton of features since I first checked it out too, nice.
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#284> With Obsidian, your data sits in a local folder. Never leave your life's work held hostage in the cloud again. ... says a brochure page for proprietary software.
What is your point? I've moved my obsidian notes to vscode and back without any issues. Is closed source software somehow incapable of having true statements?
It's by default tricking you into believing you should trust it, so yes closed source is incapable of having true statements until proven wrong (source: you can't prove it by nature)
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#285To me, the fatal weakness of obsidian, after trying it for 5 min to realize it, is sync functionality. It only supports icloud sync and its paid sync. This is turn down 100%.
Just get the git plugin and create private repo somewhere. Problem solved
Or syncthing. I already had it set up between phone, pi and PC, so threw the notes dir into there. Now free to switch between desktop and mobile with quasi instant updates.
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#286My biggest protip for Obsidian would be to never look at the connections graph. If you've got any kind of "completionist" mindset, it's easy to waste a bunch of time trying to perfectly format your notes so every node has a bunch of connections to other nodes. Once I got out of the habit trying to maximize the amount of backlinks in each note, it became a useful tool instead of a chore.
Ironically i found the same behaviour in me and immediately thought it would be a great idea to further gamify colleagues writing docs. There is something rewarding about keeping the graph optimal. It becomes almost pretty to look at.
Just add some achievements, XP, levels, silver/golden/diamond/epic statuses to notes with pretty colors and shiny graphics, and a lootbox mechanism with slot machine sound effects.
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#287The comments here made it sound exciting, but it seems like it's proprietary, which is a no-go for me. I'll stick to plain text file notes and the occasional org-mode for now.
If you wish to also edit those files on mobile, GitJournal [0] could be useful for you. I've even added basic org-mode support.
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#288I just downloaded deb and was a bit worried that it has 60MB, quick check on forums and it us unfortunately Electron :( Oh well, back to vim and cd.
Obsidian may be Electron, but it doesn’t feel like it to me. It’s fast, smooth, and I’ve never noticed excessive memory usage. I think its quality exceeds most fully native apps, especially on Linux. Last I heard it was built entirely by two people (and two cats). What’s a better way to build a high quality native-ish application targeting 5 platforms with a team of 2?
Yes. I use Fedora 34 and I completely agree. Obsidian is very smooth. I admire logseq but it is buggy and slow (although I will periodically monitor their development) and I can't see myself using it atleast for now (Not sure if it's due to OS).
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#289Check out my Obsidian instance for my YouTube channel: https://notes.recursion.is
Looks great! How did you host it in your own domain?
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#290I can totally recommend this tool. I use it daily and perform a sync between all devices with syncthing.