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Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by ncallaway »

ParetoOptimal wrote: post #256
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…

Another metric idea for you: "Time taken after creation to search for and open this note again" This can show how useful your notes are and which are most useful.

> how useful your notes are

While I think it's an interesting metric, it wouldn't capture the utility of my notes for me (emphasis on "for me", since everyone's probably different when it comes to notes).

Often, the act of writing the note helps better commit what I'm writing to memory. At a super rough estimate I'd say that 80% of the utility of note-taking is the act of producing the note itself, and only 20% of the utility is being able to refer back to specific facts.

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Post by hbrn »

hbn wrote: post #239
recroad wrote: post #130

This tool is so expensive. I want to use it but for this to be an alternative to Notion you'd have to pay for Sync and Publish, which would come to $24/month. That is very pricey for many people.

It's just reading/writing a directory of files. If you set it up to save into a synced directory, whether that be Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud, Dropbox, whatever, you can point all your Obsidian installs on various machines to the same synced directory and it'll give you the same effect.

Is there a good way to sync between Mac OS, Windows and iOS? Seems like you can only pick 2 out of 3.

Edit: Today I learned there is iCloud for Windows, so you can point Obsidian to the iCloudDrive/Obsidian folder.

Going to give it a try.

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Post by huskyr »

mitchitized wrote: post #280
huskyr wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have tried Joplin a little bit and found the UI of Obsidian much friendlier, also the plugin ecosystem is very active. Another main difference is how Obsidian works using the 'bunch of Markdown files' vs. the database approach Joplin uses. Also see this earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27808003 .

Joplin stores files as separate markdown files, and the database is just an index for search and metadata. I'm not a huge fan of Joplin's UX, but not having to pay for sync (and being able to choose the backend for sync) is important enough to me that it is a differentiator greater than the overall UX. I can point all of my Joplin installs to the same S3 bucket and boom done. I'm hearing that with Obsidian you can us…

I'm not sure how conflict resolution is done with Obsidian, but i have used both Dropbox and iCloud and with both i never had any sync issues in the last year that i've used Obsidian. Before Obsidian i used NvAlt which gave me sync issues all the time.

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Post by angryasian »

mitchitized wrote: post #116

I see this as "Joplin, just not nearly as free (speech or beer)." Why would I pay monthly for sync and have no control, when I can already sync to my own s3 buckets and only pay for AWS storage and transfer? Is there a compelling reason to switch from Joplin to Obsidian? Honest question.

> Why would I pay monthly for sync and have no control

I'm not sure what you mean by this, I use github to sync across devices, you could technically use any solution you like.

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Post by nirvdrum »

chrisweekly wrote: post #251
jacooper wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Checkout logseq. Fully open source

logseq is cool, but it's not portable like obsidian. markdown files ftw!

Logseq uses Markdown files for all of your pages and journal entries. However, it doesn't support nested directories, choosing to embed "%2F" in the filename instead. That is quite ugly. The only thing Logseq doesn't use Markdown for is configuration files, AFAIK.

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Post by itsmemattchung »

ParetoOptimal wrote: post #256
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…

Another metric idea for you: "Time taken after creation to search for and open this note again" This can show how useful your notes are and which are most useful.

Would be interesting to see how to capture this metric within Obsidian. I can imagine a similar metric: "elapsed time between note created and first time note opened." This data might help answer whether or not we are creating notes that are never revisited, an opportunity to purge the note itself.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by [deleted] »

bloqs wrote: post #181

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

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