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Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by phlakaton »

yellow_postit wrote: post #274
Vrondi wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm still waiting on one of these upstarts to implement the most essential features of the "first gen" apps, like inking/handwriting.

This is what keeps me coming back to apps like OneNote or Apples Notes. Obsidian and their ilk, for me, just encourage endless bike shedding and metrics that get in the way of the job to be done — taking and finding notes.

FWIW I only use Obsidian for note-taking, not metrics or graph views or bike-shedding. Markdown with two-way links and the occasional image, code snippet, or Mermaid diagram. Doesn't need to be more complicated than that!

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Post by riekus »

sharps1 wrote: post #150
xz18r wrote: post #84

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Current org-mode user here, former Obsidian user. Although much more extensible than apps like Joplin, Notion or - god forbid - Evernote, Obsidian comes nowhere near the freedom you have in Org-mode. You can customize Obsidian to fit your workflow to some extent, but not by a whole lot. Then again: for most people that is enough. Most want to drive a car, not build it. There is afaik no such thing as an org-agenda in…

Not an org-mode user. Would this be a set-up that creates an agenda that works (by using 2 extensions)? https://medium.com/geekculture/how-i-track-my-tasks-in-obsid... Dataview is such a great extension.

this is great, thanks!

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by e12e »

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…

Any reason not to put the Obsidian folder in git, and sync via push/pull?

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Post by kzisme »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #346
fnoof wrote: post #169

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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)

This is one of my main gripes with iOS. Even with folder/app/device specific folders it's a massive headache.

As you mentioned Syncthing works flawlessly as well as other methods on Android.

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Post by samstave »

wbharding wrote: post #67

Between Obsidian, Roam, Amplenote, and Reflect it has certainly been a golden age for note taking over the last few years. It's hard to remember that it was only 5 years ago that second generation note apps like Evernote, Notion and Bear were the only viable options unless you wanted a 1st gen app like OneNote or Workflowy. What might be most interesting about the new set of fast moving note apps is that all seem to…

ELI5 What ever happened to Evernote?

because I have a thoughts been killing me in the back of my head:

Need a family version but self hosted + cloud which allows for an auto push of notes, pics and calander to your own thing..

basically a family planner.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by yucky »

KaoruAoiShiho wrote: post #324
yucky wrote: post #97

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As a former OneNote user who moved to Obsidian, I would say it's like comparing a go kart and luxury sedan. They both technically get you where you're going if you try hard enough. And if you're not going very far maybe all you need is a go kart. My obsidian has turned into a personal Wikipedia and it's crazy how much it's improved my efficiency.

Can you explain what it has that onenote, evernote, notion etc doesn't?

Never used Notion. I only toyed around with Evernote years ago and remember it being a cluttered mess. One Note worked alright for basic notes but I noticed I rarely referred back to them. With Obsidian, maybe it's because I put the time into my configuration but I have templates for different types of notes, a tagging system that works great for grouping and reference, and the internal linking really ties everything together.

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Post by MikeTheGreat »

mikae1 wrote: post #341
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.

I tried both and am using Obsidian now.

I wanted to use logseq (I felt good about "Obsidian, but open source") but when I tried to find some text in a page I was writing it didn't work. I'm a total logseq noob but as far as I could tell I needed to install an extension/plugin to search through the page, which was weird. Plus, the plugin didn't work for me (I typed in the thing to search for, clicked "go find it" and nothing happened, I think - it's been a while and I didn't use it much).

I kinda boggled my mind that logseq wouldn't have a 'Find' feature for finding text in the page I'm editing.

Please tell me that I missed something obvious so that I can feel dumb for missing that obvious thing but happy that I can take another look at logseq :)

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Post by luckman212 »

samstave wrote: post #356
wbharding wrote: post #67

Between Obsidian, Roam, Amplenote, and Reflect it has certainly been a golden age for note taking over the last few years. It's hard to remember that it was only 5 years ago that second generation note apps like Evernote, Notion and Bear were the only viable options unless you wanted a 1st gen app like OneNote or Workflowy. What might be most interesting about the new set of fast moving note apps is that all seem to…

ELI5 What ever happened to Evernote? because I have a thoughts been killing me in the back of my head: Need a family version but self hosted + cloud which allows for an auto push of notes, pics and calander to your own thing.. basically a family planner.

TLDR- the founder quit, a bunch of suits took over, they gutted the dev team and put the app on life support for years. Bugs piled up and nobody could fix them so they outsourced to a new offshore team who rewrote the whole thing in Electron... which of course was waaay too little, way too late.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by runjake »

bostonvaulter2 wrote: post #348
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.

Definitely file an issue: https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal/issues
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