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Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by nvrspyx »

poglet wrote: post #520
nvrspyx wrote: post #176

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I think that's a limitation of the Files API. In the least, I've yet to come across an app that allows syncing with third-party storage apps through Files. I've only seen one-way saving or using the file picker to retrieve a file.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/keepassium-keepass-passwords/i... In the app description: "KeePassium can work both offline and with your favorite cloud provider. There is no setup: pick your database through the familiar Files interface — and that's it. By integrating with the Files app, KeePassium supports almost all storage providers, including..."

Interesting. I don't have a chance to mess with the app, but I wonder if it works because it's syncing individual kdbx files that the user gives access to one at a time rather than a whole directory (including subdirectories). Logseq and Obsidian, for example, would require syncing an entire directory along with subdirectories. My assumption is that they work with iCloud because they're given their own app-specific folder to do as they wish.

If that is the limitation, I wonder if they could get around that by using some type of bundle or archive. Regardless, thanks for the additional information.

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Post by ycombinator_acc »

papascrubs wrote: post #328
nvrspyx wrote: post #203

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Also not OP, but personally I have a few gripes with Logseq: - No export to PDF. There's a community plugin, but it's not great. The workaround is to export to HTML and print to PDF, but there's no real iOS option there. - Managing images and other attachments are a mess. Using the "upload an asset" method gives it a random filename that if the app fails to save the page correctly, you either dig through the folder s…

Fellow AsciiDoc supporter. I want an AsciiDoc note taking app so badly too. So many awesome features in AsciiDoc that blow markdown out of the water. I use asciidoc-pdf for doc/report generation and the workflow is so smooth. - Includes/embeds (reference your source code by line range(s) - Complex table support + the ability to embed CSV (automatic headers) - Frontmatter as a first class citizen - Macros (Variables)…

ReStructuredText seems like it would be a better contender because it's the standard markup language for the most popular programming language.

It's also natively supported in VSCode (unlike AsciiDoc).

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by ycombinator_acc »

UI_at_80x24 wrote: post #124
Macha wrote: post #79

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Yes, it is a markdown notes application. This is the core, think Notion but local-first (Sync is a paid extra, or you can use Syncthing or Git to DIY sync). You can build much more complicated systems with it (I also have it as my todo app and have it pulling out todos from all my notes and prioritising them), or you can use it as a slightly nicer version of using vs code with a folder of markdown files, which was my…

haha, thank-you for trying to help, but ALL of the examples you used are nothing that I'm familiar with. So I'm thinking that this is a _ME_ problem and not necessarily a 'Product Description' problem. After installing it, and typing in a few things I notice that it's similar to ZIM (another desktop wiki app) on the surface. I also appreciate that you corrected my misuse of "markup" when I should have said markdown w…

You weren't wrong in your use though. Markdown is one of the markup languages.

Also yes Obsidian is pretty much a wiki.

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Post by wscott »

rjzzleep wrote: post #140
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…

I'd love to use obsidian, but the mobile app does not allow specifying the folder. As a result on iOS you can only use the official syncing method. Maybe it's so you pay for the app, but I would personally rather pay a few for that functionality.

I ended up paying $20 for the 'working copy' git iOS app and then setup an iOS shortcut to sync my repository to a private github repo. So everything is manual when I click the button for the shortcut it syncs.

On the desktop the git extension does the same thing, but is automatic. Conflict resolution is as detailed and I want.

Yeah lots of non-opensource components in that flow, but it works well and is perfectly happy when I am totally offline.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by brainbag »

techdragon wrote: post #557
brainbag wrote: post #555

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I've been using Obsidian for a while and have some plug-ins, but nothing like you're talking about. Would you make some specific recommendations on the plug-ins you're referring to?

Happy to share some of what's been working for me. Some of this is stuff I'm actively using, some of it hasn't quite made it into the "day to day use" yet, but I've been experimenting with. (Random personal advice: Never let your note taking tools feel like using them is work, that's the first step towards not keeping notes!) - For fans of "outline workflows" Outliner is excellent. A whole bunch of outline/indented t…

This is great! Thanks for taking the time to write it up and share.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by papascrubs »

ycombinator_acc wrote: post #572
papascrubs wrote: post #328

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Fellow AsciiDoc supporter. I want an AsciiDoc note taking app so badly too. So many awesome features in AsciiDoc that blow markdown out of the water. I use asciidoc-pdf for doc/report generation and the workflow is so smooth. - Includes/embeds (reference your source code by line range(s) - Complex table support + the ability to embed CSV (automatic headers) - Frontmatter as a first class citizen - Macros (Variables)…

ReStructuredText seems like it would be a better contender because it's the standard markup language for the most popular programming language. It's also natively supported in VSCode (unlike AsciiDoc).

I honestly haven't played with ReStructuredText. I'll take a peek.

AsciiDoc includes are very powerful though, being able to populate your tables/code blocks from external data sources (filtering for certain lines/ranges). Also Tables can have complex structures (merged cells etc).

I feel like AsciiDoc was designed around writing technical papers than code documentation. It's essentially an opinionated wrapper around LaTex but less complexity. reST looks like it can produce great code documentation. AsciiDoc lets me cover both code documentation and customer facing documentation/reports with one code base. But I'll definitely continue to take a peek at reST. Although I think it's use case is more for embedding documentation directly in code. It's probably just my "I know the AsciiDoc toolchain well" bias though.

Re: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

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Post by jamesholden »

monkmartinez wrote: post #326
rayiner wrote: post #260

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Seems more like a dark age. Obsidian makes the fans on my 4 ghz laptop go crazy. And in some ways (integration with email and tasks) it has less functionality than One Note 2010. And Obsidian has a PDF view and PDF annotations, but you can’t search in it? I’m using Org mode with emacs just so I can have cross references into PDFs and emails in my notes.

There is very little criticism of Obsidian here, but you definitely pointed a few out. I am a OneNote user and Obsidian doesn't really compare to OneNote. If you read a lot of papers, you can have OneNote OCR the text and make it searchable.

So, there is this tool: https://pypi.org/project/ocrmypdf> OCRmyPDF adds an OCR text layer to scanned PDF files, allowing them to be searched or copy pasted.

This mentions cross-platform usage and seems simple. Is there some way to use this with Obsidian through a plugin? If so, please create a GitHub project and send us a link! :D

Just for reference, I found it with a list of a ton of other tools: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/301318/how-to-ocr-a...

I have messed around with Tesseract a bit, and at some point, I was able to turn a PDF into a text file. I was thinking of doing that and having them as markdown files which are tiny compared to the original. Then keep the Original elsewhere. I've been playing with another PDF system I'm not willing to give up on. :D

Point is, I think I can bring more dimension to my Obsidian or Markdown library by having 'txt' copies of pdfs. The search and tagging alone would be so handy.

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