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Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by Catabol »

hbrn wrote: post #292
hbn wrote: post #239

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It's just reading/writing a directory of files. If you set it up to save into a synced directory, whether that be Google Drive, OneDrive, iCloud, Dropbox, whatever, you can point all your Obsidian installs on various machines to the same synced directory and it'll give you the same effect.

Is there a good way to sync between Mac OS, Windows and iOS? Seems like you can only pick 2 out of 3. Edit: Today I learned there is iCloud for Windows, so you can point Obsidian to the iCloudDrive/Obsidian folder. Going to give it a try.

The Windows version of iCloud causes file duplication and corruption with Obsidian, unfortunately.

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Post by realfeel78 »

VoodooJuJu wrote: post #107
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" ?????

The reason for this is these "second brain" and "personal knowledge management" apps are rather cultish and aren't really intended for an audience outside of those already in the know - that is, the circuit of cycling through all these different apps and "productivity" games. A similar app, Roam Research, is the same story as Obsidian, only a few chapters ahead. Roam's marketing campaign actually referred to itself a…

Have you even tried using it?

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Post by realfeel78 »

chucky123 wrote: post #481
VoodooJuJu wrote: post #107

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The reason for this is these "second brain" and "personal knowledge management" apps are rather cultish and aren't really intended for an audience outside of those already in the know - that is, the circuit of cycling through all these different apps and "productivity" games. A similar app, Roam Research, is the same story as Obsidian, only a few chapters ahead. Roam's marketing campaign actually referred to itself a…

Agree, I've also seen this is a rising sentiment on Twitter these days. These tools are technologically great, but they are not 10x better than notepad.exe The marketing and hype around these tools are self perpetuating. Some twitter guru will post about these tools and get kickback or an increase in followers. People who pay for tools post about their experience online so they can signal to other people who have pai…

"These tools are technologically great, but they are not 10x better than notepad.exe."

That's cap. Obsidian is many, many times more powerful and useful than notepad.exe. It's a completely different class of product. It's virtually an operating system unto itself.

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Post by realfeel78 »

TuringTest wrote: post #77
QuackingTheQ wrote: post #53

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knowledge base is buzzwordy. it's a very elaborate (and good!) note taking app.

This recent breed of note-taking tools (Obsidian, Notion, logseq, Roam Research) are aimed at enabling a style of personal knowledge base known as networked thinking , which attempts to facilitate the emergent creation of new knowledge by connecting related ideas in your notes. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Vester#Networked_Thin...

Of those, Roam and Logseq definitely are, but Obsidian and Notion are much more open-ended in how they can be used, although I think the Obsidian community online does tend to overindex for that kind of usage.

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Post by chrisweekly »

boomskats wrote: post #214
aliasxneo wrote: post #179

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How are you integrating your Remarkable2? So far I have the two separate, and sometimes have to cross-reference. It would be nice to find a way to integrate them better.

I was quite proud of myself when I brought Simon Welker's obsidian-remarkable[0] plugin back to life a few months ago. It's one-way screenshot sync, but the experience is stellar (single shortcut, sub-second later you have a cropped, transparent screenshot of what's on your remarkable screen with no toolbar etc). I find it really useful for both staging meeting notes into Obsidian before summarising them, and for add…

Hi @boomskats, kudos for your recent work on obsidian-remarkable!

My current workflow is pretty suboptimal (manual desktop Remarkable.app to extract/export notes as pdf -> obsidian vault fs) and I was stoked to set up your plugin. Unfortunately it looks like it's not yet compatible w obsidian v1.0.

I created an issue https://github.com/cobalamin/obsidian-remarkable/issues/9 in hopes of confirming it's not just me. Happy to help debug if I can.

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Post by yonz »

Demo and HN reaction make this promising congratulation on the launch. The only thing that will drag me any my years of OneNote notes is Grammarly integration and support for using with Remarkable. For the last five years I have been on the look out for free form writing tool that I can use with any E-Ink tablet writers. My pesky OneNote + surface sort of works but code highlighting and typo corrections always drive me nuts. I have tried notion, OneNote and recently a direct graph note taking competitor anytype.io to no avail.

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Post by recroad »

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…

Thank you. This put me on the path to some research and I got mine setup with Google Drive and mkdocs.

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Post by kirso »

dfgsdfgwef wrote: post #381
soulofmischief wrote: post #367

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I loved Obsidian to death, but felt a bit of friction. As nice as it was, I wasn't getting sucked in and resorted to writing my own bespoke bash program for organized note-taking. Enter Logseq, and after a 20 minute learning curve, ideas just fly off of my fingertips. I reach for it daily. Can't recommend Logseq enough.

Same experience here. I was die hard fan of obsidian till I used Logseq. Obsidian doesn't have proper outlining as they have another commercial app called Dynalist. They probably don't want competition between their own products. Lack of folders in logseq is a feature. It force the user to follow zettelcasten style which results in serendipitous encounters with older notes.

You can do exactly the same with Obsidian, just don't create any folders and voila!

Nits aside, I use both and sometimes folder structure came in quite handy (like having separate notes for course modules and having 15 topics). I wouldn't remember even the names of these topics to come by when I need to.

But I agree also that the magic in Logseq happens more often than in Obsi (rediscovery). I think what contributes to it is the atomic nature of blocks as opposed to pages and daily scroll of all topics encountered recently.

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