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Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by InitialLastName »

wiennat wrote: post #513
InitialLastName wrote: post #504

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It's strange how inconsistent Microsoft's PDF support is... Edge is essentially the best-in-class PDF markup app on Windows, but OneNote PDF support is soul-crushingly rudimentary. I guess expecting consistency from the org with 3+ mutually incompatible video call apps and 5 volume control panels was always a fool's errand, though.

I guess it is because Edge is using the one that comes with Chrome while OneNote has its own implementation.

No, the Edge PDF viewer has a much larger feature set than the Chrome viewer (although, I think sometimes for reasons I can't place PDFs opened with Edge do end up using the Chrome viewer instead of the Edge native viewer).

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by hoosieree »

mystickphoenix wrote: post #268
parrot987 wrote: post #146

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TIL that obsidian has vim mode... I love it even more now.

even better, it asks you to type a specific vim command before enabling it. Great "here there be dragons, are you a dragonslayer?" UX choice, and fun easter egg too ;)

That's brilliant and super fun.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by remram »

shampto3 wrote: post #173
recroad wrote: post #130

This tool is so expensive. I want to use it but for this to be an alternative to Notion you'd have to pay for Sync and Publish, which would come to $24/month. That is very pricey for many people.

While I encourage supporting the Obsidian team by paying, there are ways that you can get the same features without paying. Sync - On iOS, you can use iCloud to sync your files between your Mac and iPhone. I imagine that there are more configuration options for this on Android. Publish - lots of different ways to deploy your notes to a site. There's one repo that helps you publish with Mkdocs [1], and I'm sure there…

Realistically if you care about privacy and owning your stuff you'd go with one of the many open-source options. Especially if you have to bring your own syncing anyway.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by Vrondi »

chrisweekly wrote: post #120
Vrondi wrote: post #105

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I'd very interested to hear more about your workflow, because lack of inking/handwriting recognition in apps like Obsidian is what keeps me on OneNote (and from going fully Linux). Can you edit any of these ink based formats later in Obsidian, or are you limited to only viewing static images of things you've drawn/handwritten elsewhere in the past? EDIT Searching around the web indicates that you can only draw on top…

That's not exactly my workflow but I think something like it wld be doable. I export pdfs (and rarely, svgs) from my Remarkable 2 e-ink tablet. SVGs can be converted to Excalidraw data. The Remarkable 2 also supports OCR but I don't make use of that.

Thanks for the reply. I've been eyeing the eink devices with pens for my next ereader, but I've worried about interoperability.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by examplary_cable »

I used obsidian for a long time. But the problem for me was that it's "granular" enough. The basic "atom" is a markdown file. There's nothing wrong with that of course. But I wanted to have the freedom of simply writing something, without worrying in which "file" it would go. After that I started working on my own "roam-like" app, I took inspirations from Spacemacs(The SPC key concent) and use HTML as the "final form" of things. if you want to look at it's at: https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by jslakro »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #538

What would be the absolute best tutorial to quickly learn how to use Obsidian, as a power user? Asking for a friend :)

Recommended LYT: Intro - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3NaIVgSlAVLHty1-NuvPa9V0...

Advance - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3NaIVgSlAVIDaYB0yeH3lnB9...

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by lenkite »

wiennat wrote: post #513
InitialLastName wrote: post #504

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's strange how inconsistent Microsoft's PDF support is... Edge is essentially the best-in-class PDF markup app on Windows, but OneNote PDF support is soul-crushingly rudimentary. I guess expecting consistency from the org with 3+ mutually incompatible video call apps and 5 volume control panels was always a fool's errand, though.

I guess it is because Edge is using the one that comes with Chrome while OneNote has its own implementation.

I missed Old Edge EPub reader. It was the best.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by emrah »

fknorangesite wrote: post #410
emrah wrote: post #397

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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

> They often break after upgrades I mean. This is what v1.0 is for.

Yes ideally, we'll see. They jumped from 0.15.9 to 1.0.0 :)

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by whimsicalism »

whimsicalism wrote: post #548
boundlessdreamz wrote: post #528

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Which extensions are you using for that?

outliner?

Granted it might not be as good as the original depending on how deep your notes go.

I know that the team behind Obsidian also created dynalist which iirc is a workflowy competitor.

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