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Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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Post by jaxomago » Fri, Oct 22, 2021, 2:41 PM UTC

input_sh wrote: post #32

I'd like to mention some community plugins that extend it even further: - Query your notes into tables/lists: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview - Templates with variables: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater - QuickAdd: https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd Markdown compatibility is cool, but what's even cooler is stringing these together to be able to create a new note in a specific folder with…

I never thought of creating an index via a template, that's really cool. Do you have a link to an example template?

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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Post by Tarean » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 2:19 PM UTC

bartvk wrote: post #338

capableweb wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Always fun to see these original comments in a HN thread. If you write this on Twitter you can get hundreds of retweets, hurry before someone else writes the tweet! Jokes aside, Obsidian being a Electron application is not a issue. The app starts in under 3 seconds for me, barely uses any RAM and CPU usage remains stable and low. If you want to actually contribute anything to this thread, feel free to give feedback o…

For me, it definitely adds something to the conversation. I simply much prefer native apps to Electron-based apps, and I'm not the only one. The original comment thus saves me time.

For obsidian it is a significant advantage because you can have plugins that e.g. render a markdown task lists as a Kanban board.

It seems to fall into the vs-code category of being sufficiently well optimized, but if you wanted to deal with millions of files then some popular plugins (queries on tasklists in all files, aggregating data into diagrams, etc) probably would get slow.

Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

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Post by bartvk » Tue, Oct 26, 2021, 2:27 PM UTC

Tarean wrote: post #372

bartvk wrote: post #338

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me, it definitely adds something to the conversation. I simply much prefer native apps to Electron-based apps, and I'm not the only one. The original comment thus saves me time.

For obsidian it is a significant advantage because you can have plugins that e.g. render a markdown task lists as a Kanban board. It seems to fall into the vs-code category of being sufficiently well optimized, but if you wanted to deal with millions of files then some popular plugins (queries on tasklists in all files, aggregating data into diagrams, etc) probably would get slow.

Good point, I hadn't thought about that.