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Post by rattray »

rattray wrote: post #136
ParetoOptimal wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is notion? I heard it was slow? Also, is real time collaboration a game changer or a gimmick? I used to think the former, but was questioning it recently. What would be lost with syncthing + obsidian for your team or maybe something that does autocommit like fossil for probable conflicts?

It's faster now, I haven't been bothered by speed yet. But yes, realtime collaboration is a critical feature for documents that can be used during meetings (and IMO ~no meetings should be held without documents). The other critical feature is comments, which I assume Obsidian does not have support for (they would be very nontrivial to represent in markdown).

For posterity, I got pretty annoyed by the clutter of "Type / for commands" and stuff, and used this Stylish theme to clean things up a bit:

https://gist.github.com/rattrayalex/2e4f934045aabc4caeeab249...

Re: Write plain text files

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Post by cocteaus »

veidr wrote: post #10

This is good advice, but (as he notes halfway through the post) "plain text" comes in a lot of forms. I would also add that for life-long storage of "whatever" you do probably also need attachments. (I guess we could say “plain files”. And for those, more JPEG/PDF than .doc/.cwk (Hi mom! :) ) For a couple decades I used my IMAP mail server's "Drafts" mailbox as a kind of poor man's Notion|OneNote|Evernote|Blahblahnot…

Thank you for reminding me the IMAP "drafts" trick! I had been using it for 10+ years with pine/mutt but the transition to mobile killed it for me.

Re: Write plain text files

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Post by coffeeling »

approxim8ion wrote: post #405
coffeeling wrote: post #398

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think Dendron is a Roam clone. All notetaking apps of the new generation have certain similarities, but Dendron has a pretty different philosophy for how you should organize your notes. Roam's about the block within an outline, interlinking and transclusion. Dendron's core schtick is making traditional hierarchies easier to work with. Like, with Roam a feelings of power scenario would be queries getting you s…

Appreciate your input. I'll admit I haven't looked into Dendron as deeply.

Yeah, the app's built around a tree hierarchy like normal folders, but using dot namespacing (music.memes.ohno.rickroll.md) to make working with it more doable than with a file manager. I don't know if it's better, per se, but they have definite philosophy to their design, and it's explicitly against graphs and wikilinks as the be all end all solution to knowledge base organization.

Re: Write plain text files

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Post by thiagomg »

I’d say that it’s not necessarily plain text files, but some text based formats, preferably open. Easy to parse, read and improve.

I follow something similar here, but with a difference that I don’t do anything in closed or binary formats, except for images and such binary only things, that I use only open formats. It’s being working fine - I also have everything in a source control (moved to git, currently).

As someone suggested here, there’s no better way to see changes over time when you need to see a previous version.

Re: Write plain text files

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Post by CRConrad »

justsomehnguy wrote: post #38

> I’ve brought my text files with me since 1990, from Mac to Windows to Linux to BSD > But plain text? Always. Everywhere. Quite obviously you have your files in ASCII. Anyone who needs more than 26 letters (or god forbid non-latin ones) are fucked. Sometimes quite literally. > Your writing should outlive you. Depending on companies is not an option. ASCII? Sure. EBCDIC? Ughh. UTF... 8? 16? 32? > If you rely on Word,…

> Anyone who needs more than 26 letters (or god forbid non-latin ones) are fucked.

Anyone ... are fucked.

Hmm...

> If on the suitable media.

Hmm.

(Oh, and still February 3rd, obv. March 3rd would be 2022.03.03.)

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