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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

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Post by jiggunjer »

WA wrote: post #328
jiggunjer wrote: post #308

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Apart from the transfer aspect I identify two other reasons for taking notes: The act of note taking itself may help structure and focus thoughts, regardless of intent to review or transfer the note. It may also be cathartic. It gives peace of mind to know I own the detailed information on X, just in case. Or perhaps making a pretty list about something random lets me take my mind of work for a few minutes.

For me it’s similar. I want to write it down to get it out of my head. But I think it’s important to understand one thing about notes and organization systems in general: do you optimize for speed of writing stuff down or do you optimize for retrieving the information? I know that I am in the former camp. That’s why my note taking system is as follows: I have a folder called Notes in Sublime. I create a new file, use…

agreed, thats often enough for text but what about tables and images. We quickly enter the complexer realms of rich text and database forms. I often write down the price of an item while shopping using a database input app, but there's no easy way to transfer this to a wiki or markdown file.

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Post by avgcorrection »

capableweb wrote: post #345
avgcorrection wrote: post #263

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It’s just nice to be able to differentiate between markdowns that adhere to some existing implementation (GitHub, CommonMark or something else) and those that are their own flavor.[1] “Markdown” is marketing speak for “you probably already know this”. Which yes, sure, but all the little tiny differences between all the different implementations can act as annoying papercuts. At least it’s not wiki markup... [1] GitHu…

Let's see if your favorite "GitHub" accomplishes this task, since you expect this from a much smaller company: Searching for "GitHub Markdown" on Google yields the following two links at the top: - https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/ - https://docs.github.com/en/github/writing-on-github/getting-... Some snippets from those two pages, where they call their own syntax just "Markdown": > Markdown is a…

You got me, bud.

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groby_b wrote: post #301
kazinator wrote: post #209

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I assure you that I'm personally good with the separation, which makes sense. I made a remark about a remark, and nothing more. Speaking of personal, I don't mind attacks; do go on. Well, not that I want to encourage it here, where it is not allowed, but you can PM them to me, if you have more.

So did I. Not sure why you think I care about you.

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Post by orand »

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #49

Last I checked there was no good way to do quick capture of articles from mobile iOS to obsidian. Scenario — I come across an article on my iPhone, and I just want to dump title + URL (maybe even the text content) into obsidian. This is a must have for any note taking tool. Anyone have a good workflow for this, please share. Ideally an iOS shortcut.

Here’s the Obsidian Webclipper iOS shortcut I use that I modified from someone else’s on the Obsidian forum. You’ll need to modify it to fit your folder structure, etc. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0d542087f367494fb7f2282b7e4...

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Post by theshrike79 »

lethologica wrote: post #274
helmholtz wrote: post #120

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Not seeing real-life examples is the most frustrating thing about JD in my opinion. Not John Noble's fault of course. In that spirit. My structure is below. - 10-19 Documents - 11 Scans - 12 Health - 13 Travel - 14 Contracts - 15 Home - 16 Visas - 17 Education - 18 Employment - 20-29 Finance - 21 Banks - 22 Bills - 23 Investments - 24 Taxes - 30-39 Hobbies - 31 Hiking - 32 Running - 33 Climbing - 34 Music - 35 Progra…

I’m really liking the look of this but I’m curious as for what happens if you have more than ten hobbies, for example?

Just do subcategories like the actual Dewey Decimal system

30 Hobbies 31 Solo sports 31.1 Weight Lifting 31.2 Running 32 Team sports 32.1 Football 33...

You get the idea.

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Post by axutio »

rg111 wrote: post #58

I have switched to Obsidian and I use multiple vaults for multiple purposes. One is for work, one is for personal projects and notes. One for Books and Movies I watched or want to watch. And one for Zettelkasten[0]. Obsidian is extremely customizable and user-friendly. And to make things even better, which is a must for many people including me, it saves the files as .md in the local storage. You can even sync it amo…

Could you share your clone (w/ source code)? I've been wanting to build an open source Obsidian Publish alternative w/ the ability to authenticate and edit - Yjs + ProseMirror would allow for high quality collaborative Markdown editing on the frontend.

More broadly, I want a general Markdown notes "backend". Obsidian currently operates on local vaults which we can sync w/ general cloud providers, but no providers have all the features I'd want. Using Git lets me have great versioning of notes, but makes realtime syncing impossible, and using OneDrive is the opposite, so for the moment I'm using a Git repository in my OneDrive to get both.

It would be great to have a universal self-hostable note vault backend that interfaces with Obsidian, Dendron, etc. and allows for real syncing and publishing without requiring something hacky.

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Post by taurusnoises »

archibaldJ wrote: post #69
taurusnoises wrote: post #64

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I use both Notion and Obsidian. The main difference is that Notion is an entire database processing platform, especially once you get into mirroring databases, and getting savvy with filters and check boxes. Not to mention the fact that everything in Notion is its own page. This makes it wildly customizable, and again, programmable. Obsidian is a lot more static. It's basic strengthis having offline capabilities, sim…

I see! Thanks for the detailed breakdown and comparisons! I'm now somewhat convinced that I should definitely get familiar with Obsidian and exploring different aspects of it Zettelkasten has been something that I wanna try out for a while!

I love talking about it, so ask away!

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Post by taurusnoises »

digitalengineer wrote: post #73
taurusnoises wrote: post #67

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My main gripe with Obsidian. That, and the fact that it costs almost $100 to have the mobile app sync with the desktop. That's insane to me, and feels vindictive. I'm all for paying for the platform. Seriously. These ventures need bottom - up support. But, syncing is a basic feature that any mobile app should have baked in. Charge for 24-hour support, something that actually requires the time of the team.

Just download the app make a vault. Same it in iCloud or google drive. Now use your desktop pc and copy the files over. Done and a accessible vault in your smartphone.

You can't just save the vault in Good Drive on your phone, because the vault is looking for a folder on your phone to sync to. The Drive option simply isn't there. From what I've seen you have to download another, third party sync app, to do that, and that just sounds clunky af. Obsidian charging $90 a year(!) for sync is just super lame. I can wait til they realize that.
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