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Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
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#312Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Can you elaborate on the syncing part? Last I tried Logseq, syncing across devices via iCloud was very unreliable. So I gave up. Although I would have loved to replace Roam with Logseq back then. Now I stick to Emacs + orgmode and Obsidian for plain markdown files.
I have a folder in syncthing called "logseq". This folder holds the logseq files.
I have logseq-sync on my phone so it syncs the folder. I also have a Cloudserver which is the spoke and all other devices (2 laptops, the phone) sync it.
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you prefer Obsidian over Logseq for?
Also not OP, but personally I have a few gripes with Logseq: - No export to PDF. There's a community plugin, but it's not great. The workaround is to export to HTML and print to PDF, but there's no real iOS option there. - Managing images and other attachments are a mess. Using the "upload an asset" method gives it a random filename that if the app fails to save the page correctly, you either dig through the folder s…
I was also kind of sad that Logseq didn't really have a vim-mode.
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#314Obsidian is among the best note-taking apps out there today. Backlinks make it more useful than other note taking apps, and this helps me uncover connections even if I don’t use the graph feature that much.
One plugin I am wish will arrive soon is Google Calendar integration.
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#315hey! Don't have anything serious to add, but just want to say thanks! Obsidian is a great tool and I use it every day.
I don't even use half the features/capabilities but as a simple markdown editor w/ links it's fantastic.
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#316Love the 1.0 on iPad! The tabbed interface (and weird history behavior when working with splits) was one of my biggest hiccups with the old version. The new one interface has smoother animations and behaves better. Wish you added multiple window support on iPad, but that's super minor.
I know that Obsidian has roots as "database is a directory of markdown files", but I will say that the last remaining feature request I have for the app is about versioning: I want to browse my vault at a point in time, not look at old versions of files. Specifically, I want to delete a file, then do a text search in 6 months, find a match in the deleted file, and browse my notebook at the date before I deleted the file.
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#317Obsidian is a tool like no other: a "second brain" that you have complete ownership over. Being able to link together knowledge or concepts across contexts is a superpower. A recent example: the AlphaTensor paper comes out with a new approach to optimizing matrix multiplication algorithms: as I jot down some thoughts, can I seamlessly refresh my memory on every paper or talk or offhand ML finding I've come across on "matrix multiplication", "deep RL", "Strassen’s algorithm", etc.?
I use it for every aspect of knowledge management, building a personal wiki, personal logging and writing, task tracking, reading notes, academic paper notes+metadata, planning, and more. Other tools offer similar features, but they all seem to have tradeoffs on data ownership or offline support or lack of extensibility or non-standard text format (i.e. not markdown). I wrote last year in another HN post that it's remarkable that the Obsidian team has delivered a superior product in a _very_ crowded note-taking / PKM space, and 18 months later it remains the single tool that I couldn't imagine abandoning.
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#318I am still looking for a note editor that has good support for tables. Might as well use Excel for note-taking from now on.
If its good or not can be discussed, but Obsidian supports tables.
Obsidian also supports mermaid flowcharts. And there are plugins for mindmaps, GANTT charts etc. There really are an amazing range of functions in Obsidian.
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#319Obsidian is among the best note-taking apps out there today. Backlinks make it more useful than other note taking apps, and this helps me uncover connections even if I don’t use the graph feature that much. One plugin I am wish will arrive soon is Google Calendar integration.
> One plugin I am wish will arrive soon is Google Calendar integration
For what use? There's an obsidian-ics plugin to fill a daily note with events from a calendar, ans obsidian-google-lookup to put Google Calendar events and contacts as objects in notes.
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#320I'll have to give 1.0 a try, I installed Obsidian last time it came up on HN but unfortunately it won't run on my phone.
E: Dang. Same thing. Installs and launches, but when I go to create a vault I get "Failed to create vault. Unable to create directory, unknown reason." Both on internal storage and the SD card.
I granted it permissions upon install, so who knows. My phone might just be too old and busted.