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Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by njsubedi » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:52 PM UTC

hericium wrote: post #17

So, without clicking, what does this app do? What is it?

It’s a note-taking application like Evernote but open source. Has native apps. You can sync using a self-hosted sever easily. Works great on mobile too. Update: Oops. I always thought it was Open Source. I started using it after learning about it a HN thread some time ago. Downloaded and started using and it worked so good I didn’t have to look back about it.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by DMell » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

toopok4k3 wrote: post #37

weberer wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Markdown editor that lets you add links to other files. You basically have a "project" consisting of a folder with various .md files.

How does it compare to wikis, eh? Isn't that what they do.

I’d start with the plugins. It allows for easy integration into my current workflow.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by Kelteseth » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

weberer wrote: post #28

toopok4k3 wrote: post #20

I have no idea what Obsidian is and their frontpage does nothing to tell me what it is. All I can see is that it's been updated, but WTF is it? edit: ahh, it wasn't the frontpage...

Markdown editor that lets you add links to other files. You basically have a "project" consisting of a folder with various .md files.

So what is difference to vscode here? I can see a cool graph view of my links. I guess the target is not directly developers when looking at their paid sync addon, because I would simply put this into a free closed gitlab repo. I will definitely try out the free version this week :)

Edit: Found md-graph that also has the same neat graph: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ianjsike...

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by hiidrew » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

Love obsidian, thank you for building!

My only dream is blocked by Apple. Would to have the ability to switch the default notes client in iOS, similar to how you can with browsers and email.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by capableweb » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:53 PM UTC

toopok4k3 wrote: post #37

weberer wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Markdown editor that lets you add links to other files. You basically have a "project" consisting of a folder with various .md files.

How does it compare to wikis, eh? Isn't that what they do.

It's basically a wiki but running locally that you can sync with a remote, and based around normal (well, almost "normal") markdown files.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by poisonarena » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:54 PM UTC

mirages wrote: post #25

Is it me or am I the only one who took a good 3 mins to figure what this app is for ? Sorry I don't want to sound disrespectul but I didn't found an quick and easy parsable description. If I would show this my parents, I wouldn't be sure if they could guess. :/ "Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base" ?????

its not just you, I think they could have written an about page that explains what it is more clearly. Seems neat though, maybe could replace my "stickies" app

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by nu11ptr » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:54 PM UTC

Looks nice and based on my initial quick tests seems rather lean, and yet it is cross platform. Can I ask what the tech stack looks like? development language(s)? Cross platform UI library?

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by joethei » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:55 PM UTC

tfsh wrote: post #32

Congratulations on the launch! I downloaded Obsidian for the first time last night and spent all morning customising it, so the timing for me couldn't be better. Quick note, on the website the download button for MacOS is delegating to " https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/releases/dow... " despite the button saying "Version 1.0.0", I believe it should be " https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/…

It's a caching problem. You should be directed to the correct version in the next few minutes.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by UI_at_80x24 » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:55 PM UTC

mirages wrote: post #25

Is it me or am I the only one who took a good 3 mins to figure what this app is for ? Sorry I don't want to sound disrespectul but I didn't found an quick and easy parsable description. If I would show this my parents, I wouldn't be sure if they could guess. :/ "Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base" ?????

No it wasn't just you. The best I could understand was that it was a note-taking app that outputs in markup.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by matthewaveryusa » Thu, Oct 13, 2022, 1:55 PM UTC

If I use obsidian to take personal work notes, do I need a commercial license? Right now I use a giant append-only markdown file but I'm curious about the linking.