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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 mikae1 »

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…

Did you try https://logseq.com/? I've had not reason to pick freemium Obsidian over open source Logseq.

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

angryasian wrote: post #286
lillecarl wrote: post #164

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Handwriting I find completely useless, but drawing on a display can be quite OK even for me

theres a plugin for that - https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

That's a great plugin! It even lets you create links to docs from within the drawing. And you can embed one part of a drawing in one note and another part in a different note. I also highly recommend checking out the creator's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/VisualPKM

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Post by AB1908 »

ameixaseca wrote: post #333

I installed Obsidian and did some initial testing, but two things completely threw me off: 1) Basic synchronization is a paid feature and you cannot (or at least could not) set up a private synchronization server. 2) Synchronization depends on the cloud. I simply cannot trust all important information of my life going to an unspecified location in the cloud for synchronization, even if it promises end-to-end encrypti…

Wait I can synchronize with nextcloud just fine. It's just a folder on my drive after all. That said, it's janky on mobile.

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Post by smoldesu »

ameixaseca wrote: post #333

I installed Obsidian and did some initial testing, but two things completely threw me off: 1) Basic synchronization is a paid feature and you cannot (or at least could not) set up a private synchronization server. 2) Synchronization depends on the cloud. I simply cannot trust all important information of my life going to an unspecified location in the cloud for synchronization, even if it promises end-to-end encrypti…

You can also syncronize Obsidian with your own hardware/software solution. I've been doing it for years and it's the simplest thing:

- Set up Syncthing to sync your vault folder

- Share with your devices and you're done

If you're already using a VPN and syncing with a home-server, you could also leverage Nextcloud or whatever your current syncing solution is. I don't see any reason to get mad when Obsidian is effectively saying "we don't want your data unless you pay us to handle it right".

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

monkmartinez wrote: post #281
AB1908 wrote: post #132

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There's an excalidraw plugin that helps with this to a degree.

This plugin misses mark big time. I tried it and tried it again. Trying to love it... just couldn't compare with OneNote.

I absolutely love this plugin. But I'm probably using quite differently from you since I barely use the pencil/draw tool at all.

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

fnoof wrote: post #169
shakezula wrote: post #142

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Uh, this can’t be true cause I have my Obsidian mobile vault set to my iCloud and use that for syncing and backup and it works pretty much perfectly.

It allows iCloud or obsidian syncing. I tried to set it up with Dropbox because I didn’t trust iClouds conflict resolution and couldn’t get it to work.

This is due to an iOS limitation. On android you can pretty much use whatever syncing method you like (such as Syncthing)

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Post by bostonvaulter2 »

runjake wrote: post #163

A few tips for those new to Obsidian: - Don't rush to install a bunch of plugins. Start with the defaults, learn Obisidian and add only what you need. It is easy for some to spend more time tweaking Obsidian than actually using it. - If you're a macOS user, check out the Minimal theme, which will make Obsidian feel more native. -> https://minimal.guide/Home - When you are ready for plugins, you may want Omnisearch[1]…

I wish the minimal theme didn't get rid of switching to the finger cursor when hovering over links.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by mikae1 »

ameixaseca wrote: post #333

I installed Obsidian and did some initial testing, but two things completely threw me off: 1) Basic synchronization is a paid feature and you cannot (or at least could not) set up a private synchronization server. 2) Synchronization depends on the cloud. I simply cannot trust all important information of my life going to an unspecified location in the cloud for synchronization, even if it promises end-to-end encrypti…

I've had not reason to pick freemium Obsidian over open source https://logseq.com/.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by sylens »

I love Obsidian because it puts everything in just a file that I can see live on my filesystem. Craft, Bear, Notion are all good tools, but I get uneasy knowing that so much of my knowledge base and documentation lives on their backend somewhere.

I happily pay for Obsidian Sync even though I could use iCloud or OneDrive to sync my vaults because I want to support them

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