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Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

BeFlatXIII wrote: post #247
wbharding wrote: post #67

Between Obsidian, Roam, Amplenote, and Reflect it has certainly been a golden age for note taking over the last few years. It's hard to remember that it was only 5 years ago that second generation note apps like Evernote, Notion and Bear were the only viable options unless you wanted a 1st gen app like OneNote or Workflowy. What might be most interesting about the new set of fast moving note apps is that all seem to…

It’s not often that I see a mention of Workflowy in the wild. I know there is better out there, but Workflowy and Apple Notes are the ones I already use and I’m unsure whether the others are better enough to be worth the switching costs.

I still use workflowy till this day.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by tuan »

kepano wrote: post #409
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.

The biggest fundamental difference is that Logseq is an outliner whereas Obsidian is more flexible to any kind of text you throw at it. So if I am trying to write prose it feels constraining for everything to be a bullet. That said Obsidian and Logseq are interoperable since they both run on a local folder of plain text files. Meaning you can switch over to Logseq for your outlining needs and use Obsidian for everyth…

there's a document mode (shortcut: td) that allows you to write long paragraph

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Post by kirso »

kepano wrote: post #403

I was an early user of Obsidian in May 2020, and have been absolutely blown away by how fast this tiny team of 2 people was able to build such a life-changing app. Using Obsidian fundamentally changed the way I think. It's also been fun to see how rapidly the plugin ecosystem has grown. The community is so friendly and creative. I have contributed a few things of my own, notably Minimal theme[0]. When I was asked to…

Thank you for building Minimal and helping on Obsidian. I love the theme and it made me return back and really give it a fair shot!

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by rjzzleep »

phforms wrote: post #459
kepano wrote: post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The biggest fundamental difference is that Logseq is an outliner whereas Obsidian is more flexible to any kind of text you throw at it. So if I am trying to write prose it feels constraining for everything to be a bullet. That said Obsidian and Logseq are interoperable since they both run on a local folder of plain text files. Meaning you can switch over to Logseq for your outlining needs and use Obsidian for everyth…

I always feel like the term “outliner” misrepresents the approach to note-taking that tools like Logseq, (Org-)Roam, RemNote, etc. have chosen. I don’t really have/know a good alternative label, but there is so much more to it than just “outlining” your thoughts in a list of bullet points. Often when I write down my thoughts this way, it is more like following associative threads. I focus on a particular thought and…

org-roam or more generally org mode in emacs is less fixed in it's page structure than logseq. I think outliner is in fact the correct choice for logseq. You cannot move outside of the structure logseq provides for you for the files. org mode in emacs allows you to use any structure you want.

So I think while outliner might be misplaced for emacs it is not for logseq.

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Post by gdw2 »

saltymimir wrote: post #461
soulofmischief wrote: post #456

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None, because I'm still waiting on an Android app... :(

They do have an Android app now, though? You can download the apk from their github releases page[1], if you don't mind sideloading apps. [1]: https://github.com/logseq/logseq/releases

Also in fdroid if you add the github releases as a repo.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by pentagrama »

I use Sublime Text as a simple note taking app (love the speed and tabs). Didn't know about Obsidian and was exited to try it after reading about it today, but the simple fact that Obsidian loads a fraction of a second slower than Sublime, may be a deal breaker for me.

Here I recorded a comparison https://imgur.com/a/6QzpwYw

Will give it a chance, looks so good and has several interesting features that I may didn't know that I needed. Kudos to the Obsidian team.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by Gatsky »

yangcheng wrote: post #488

For people who use a personal notes tool like obsidian, how would you deal with notes that turned to work related later? I always find myself end up with half-finished notes in multiple different places. First versions in personal notebook and refined ones in company's google doc/etc. Thanks

Not entirely sure of your use case. You could maybe use backlinks for this. Say have a summary document within obsidian for a work project, and backlink to your existing notes which are relevant. You can even link specific blocks of text in a note.

Another option is to write a document up in Obsidian, then upload the markdown to google docs. Or there are obsidian plugins converting obsidian notes to Word format.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by Gatsky »

mitchitized wrote: post #116

I see this as "Joplin, just not nearly as free (speech or beer)." Why would I pay monthly for sync and have no control, when I can already sync to my own s3 buckets and only pay for AWS storage and transfer? Is there a compelling reason to switch from Joplin to Obsidian? Honest question.

The paid sync service is only really needed for the mobile app. Otherwise you can sync the vaults however you like.
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