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Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by shrvtv »

kepano wrote: post #384
shrvtv wrote: post #379

The app experience is totally ruined now. It's insanity for me to see 1Password 7 to 8 transition level of nonsense again. Block-quotes are no longer quotes, just text with a strip of light on the left with no option to make it more obvious. File name is now H1 header at the top of the file with no option to hide it. Performance sucks so much, and that is on an eight-core x64 mobile CPU running Windows 10 Pro. Everyt…

You can turn off the inline title under Settings > Appearance It will likely take a few weeks for plugins/themes to update to the new theme system, so I would encourage a bit of patience! See theme migration guide: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/0-16-0-theme-migration-guide/425...

Wait, I recognize your username... Thanks for the tabs, but please, please do something to the links and quotes. They are completely and utterly messed up, now that they look the same. 10 hours ago there was a difference between the text and the URL in a hyperlink. And now there isn't.

Perfomance is something we never had to begin with, at the very least I can live without it. But we had double colored links! We had quotes, highlighted out of the text by grey colored blocks.

Why? Why would you take that? I mean, 1Password team has moved to Electron and lost features, that is partially understandle. Forgivable, at least. But Obsidian just got comically worse with no explanation provided.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by mcluck »

phlakaton wrote: post #351
yellow_postit wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Adding my voice to the cacophony. I don't use Obsidian but I do use Foam in VS Code. Daily notes and wikilinks is all I need. I've toyed with adding more metadata but it's just not worth the maintenance cost

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by ParetoOptimal »

just_boost_it wrote: post #362
ncallaway wrote: post #291

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> how useful your notes are While I think it's an interesting metric, it wouldn't capture the utility of my notes for me (emphasis on "for me", since everyone's probably different when it comes to notes). Often, the act of writing the note helps better commit what I'm writing to memory. At a super rough estimate I'd say that 80% of the utility of note-taking is the act of producing the note itself, and only 20% of th…

That's definitely an exponential distribution. I'm a data scientist and I keep going back to a few key notes over and over and adding little bits. I tried to track things like ideas, tasks, and just journaling, but it just didn't fit right. It's unbeatable for my work related stuff though, and the key things for me were mathjax support and being able to paste screenshots directly onto the page. Fantastic product.

I agree there is value in just creating the note and distilling your thoughts even if you never revisit.

I'm not quite sure how I'd use the metric or if I'd use it to purge notes.

Searchability or recall can be a problem sometimes though, so "searches where I had no results or didn't visit anything" could be interesting.

Especially if I try searching later and find a note answering my question with bad "SEO".

Another idea I had was to make a Firefox extension that searches my notes and displays results before search engines since I reflexively search things in browser sometimes.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by jmcphers »

IndigoIncognito wrote: post #325

I stopped using it due to the fact that it is like Vim for Microsoft Word, it takes more time to use, has less features than the original and hurts your sanity

If you just want a knowledge base in Vim, have you tried Vimwiki[1]?

I use Vimwiki in vim and Obsidian outside of Vim -- they can be configured to use exactly the same pile of Markdown files as a vault/wiki.

[1] https://github.com/vimwiki/vimwiki

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by kepano »

shrvtv wrote: post #391
kepano wrote: post #384

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can turn off the inline title under Settings > Appearance It will likely take a few weeks for plugins/themes to update to the new theme system, so I would encourage a bit of patience! See theme migration guide: https://forum.obsidian.md/t/0-16-0-theme-migration-guide/425...

Wait, I recognize your username... Thanks for the tabs, but please, please do something to the links and quotes. They are completely and utterly messed up, now that they look the same. 10 hours ago there was a difference between the text and the URL in a hyperlink. And now there isn't. Perfomance is something we never had to begin with, at the very least I can live without it. But we had double colored links! We had…

I am not 100% sure I understand what you are describing but it sounds easy to fix.

If you can share before/after screenshots of issue on the Obsidian forum or in Obsidian Discord, that would help!

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by rs_rs_rs_rs_rs »

ptomato wrote: post #290
rs_rs_rs_rs_rs wrote: post #125

Tried Obsidian, wanted to save a note that had an url in the title, can't do that, not able to have special characters in titles(am on Linux btw where there's little limitations on what chars you can use in file names). Delete, good bye, auf wiedersehen!

I'm not aware of any commonly used linux FS that allows `/` in a filename

What about other note taking tools that allow `/` in the title? How aware are you of them?

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by emrah »

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]…

Obsidian is great but I haven't had much luck with plugins. They often break after upgrades and most are not maintained. Perhaps that will change after the 1.0 release, at least the breaking problem

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by shrvtv »

kepano wrote: post #395
shrvtv wrote: post #391

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, I recognize your username... Thanks for the tabs, but please, please do something to the links and quotes. They are completely and utterly messed up, now that they look the same. 10 hours ago there was a difference between the text and the URL in a hyperlink. And now there isn't. Perfomance is something we never had to begin with, at the very least I can live without it. But we had double colored links! We had…

I am not 100% sure I understand what you are describing but it sounds easy to fix. If you can share before/after screenshots of issue on the Obsidian forum or in Obsidian Discord, that would help!

I'll be glad to help on the weekend. It was a huge relief to know, that you didn't just drop a color from the hyperlink

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by cldwalker »

MikeTheGreat wrote: post #358
mikae1 wrote: post #341

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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…

Cmd-K to find any line in your notes and Cmd-shift-K to find any line in your page. Starting with 0.8.3 there is also a native find-in-page feature, https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/Find%20in%20page, which can search anything that is visible including results of queries

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by itsmemattchung »

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 have not yet tried Logseq. Checking it out now!
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