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Post by itsmemattchung »

emptyparadise wrote: post #249
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!

I'm very very very disorganized by nature. Some people I know seem to be organized at birth. All the systems I put are really just mechanisms are really aspiration, ways for me to emulate their behavior, keep me accountable, and gamify it a bit.

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Post by NoMoreBro »

number6 wrote: post #269
NoMoreBro wrote: post #148

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(not op) Logseq is open source and really great in the way it connects notes and highlights pdfs, but the sync part is too “asynchronous”. It works well if you use a single device, but as long as you add something else you have to manually reindex and refresh a lot. Obsidian is less opinionated on the txt file format and folders too, so I consider it more future-proof.

The sync part I solved with syncthing. I started with logseq and now obsidian doesn't work for me anymore. Tried to switch but I am into this small self containing bits now. Plus journal with timestamps

Syncthing is very good, but the best iOS implementation, Möbius Sync[1], is not comparable with the Android one (the OS limits the syncs, you need a regular notification and so on).

The great things about Logseq are his weakness for me. Everything is so interconnected (you can say: "here put the paragraph of this other note") that I sometimes lose confidence in the system. It becomes too complex. With Obsidian I know that a note is a file. Less convenient but simple and reliable.

Logseq really excels with his outlining mode, I miss it (but I don't like the way it saves states in the markdown file). It has some problems with the code blocks too.

[1] https://www.mobiussync.com/

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Post by emptyparadise »

itsmemattchung wrote: post #301
emptyparadise wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm very very very disorganized by nature. Some people I know seem to be organized at birth. All the systems I put are really just mechanisms are really aspiration, ways for me to emulate their behavior, keep me accountable, and gamify it a bit.

That's awesome. Personally I found that I end up spending too much time on configurations and tinkering with the notes, so I end up going for the simplest system I can.

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Post by emptyparadise »

ParetoOptimal wrote: post #259
emptyparadise wrote: post #249

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

> Notebook organization systems are serious business! If that's what it takes to make someones system effective so be it. If it's worth doing, it's worth doing well and all that. What's a better alternative in your opinion?

If it works, it works. Just surprised by the infrastructure involved.

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Post by diego898 »

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.

I used to set this manually on Tiddlywiki with a "touched" field. I'm thinking of incorporating this into Obsidian using the templater plugin.

I found it very useful to organize research papers like this.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by dmix »

I was using Obsidian pretty hard for a year but I eventually switched over to https://www.ticktick.com/

It turns out I prefer having lists as my primary interface, especially for the mobile side (insert text and press enter, instead of typing "- [x] item").

It does 3 things (all integrated together): lists, notes, and calendar. The "Notes" section is like a mini obsidian mixed in with the lists, but you can also add markdown notes to each individual 'task'. So I use it like a personal knowledge-base, not just for expendable lists.

The calendar integration is also nice. I've combined Obsidian, gCal, and Omnitasks/Todoist into one app.

That said, for pure note taking Obsidian was the best. Especially for coding/work.

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