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Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian

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Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian

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Post by boraoztunc »

apitman wrote: post #31

Obsidian's business model might be genius. Open file formats; closed source. By making a great product, they attract users. Usually the main argument against software like this is vendor lock-in. But by using open formats, there's always an escape hatch. If they decided to squeeze their users, I suspect a decent open source alternative would pop up very quickly. In the meantime, casual open source alternatives are ve…

Products are the reflections of their makers. Obsidian is a great example. Happy from the beginning.

Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian

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Post by Kichererbsen »

egberts1 wrote: post #25

i couldn't put import various media into Obsidian.

What kind of media? An Obsidian vault is just a folder with files in it - and with the `![[file-name]]` syntax or the `![title](path/to/file)` syntax if you prefer plain markdown (for portability?!) it just embeds?

Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian

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Post by fransje26 »

ndarray wrote: post #7

This website is a good test of who actually clicked the link, not able to read a thing, coming back to the comments to report the bad experience, and who didn't click the link/is a bot, talking about the article as if nothing happened.

Works absolutely fine in Firefox on Android.

Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian

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Post by abhinavk »

apitman wrote: post #31

Obsidian's business model might be genius. Open file formats; closed source. By making a great product, they attract users. Usually the main argument against software like this is vendor lock-in. But by using open formats, there's always an escape hatch. If they decided to squeeze their users, I suspect a decent open source alternative would pop up very quickly. In the meantime, casual open source alternatives are ve…

Yeah. It's one of my most used apps. I pay for Sync to support their model even though I hardly use it on my phone.

Apart from no lock-in, another benefit of the open format model is that you can complement it with other tools. Since their code editor is not that great, I just open the vault folder in Vim/VSCode when it becomes cumbersome.

Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian

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Post by abhinavk »

paradox460 wrote: post #20

I've been using foam instead of obsidian for my personal knowledge base. It works rather well. And it's completely free and ultimately just markdown. While I might wish it was djot, I don't wish hard enough to make that so myself https://foambubble.github.io/foam/

It makes VSCode very slow though which itself is getting heavier every release. Obsidian doesn't feel like an Electron app just like VSCode from a few years ago..
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