I've been using Obsidian since last year, and it soon became my primary tool for taking notes, keeping up with projects, proposals, etc...To keep business and personal life separate, I utilize two separate vaults, which is really simple. Highly recommended for anyone wanting to create their so-called second brain.
Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
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#72Huge fan; Obsidian is at the center of my personal system for PKM / TFT (note-taking, todos, journaling, devnotes, bookmarks, sketches... ). It's like an OS for .md files. It's so powerful and extensible, via eg WYSIWYG editor, Excalidraw integ, Readwise Reader integ, home for my Remarkable2 notes and drawings, etc. Amazing community too.
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#73Obsidian has been an amazing tool. I keep all my notes in it and love the WYSIWYG editing and plugins - keep it up!
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#74I appreciate what Obsidian is and how it works, and congrats on 1.0! On the personal side, I dislike aesthetics and wouldn't ever use it 'cause of Electron, tho. I'm spoiled by native note-taking apps like Bear and Noteplan on macOS which have much nicer UX and UI, especially on mobile.
The aesthetics of all three of these apps seem almost the same?
Bear's aesthetics are definitely a bit nicer. I have switched to Obsidian for extensibility and its use of local files… but Bear has a level of polish that is hard to put into words and which screenshots alone don't quite capture. It just straight-up feels better. (It also has the problem of getting updates very slowly and is really committed to keeping everything in its internal DB, which makes it much less useful to me.)
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Markdown editor that lets you add links to other files. You basically have a "project" consisting of a folder with various .md files.
How does it compare to wikis, eh? Isn't that what they do.
It's trying to be a wiki without a server. Or at least, that's how it started. It's a note taking app that uses markdown and plain text files. Gives some nice organizational views.
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#76So, without clicking, what does this app do? What is it?
It’s a note-taking application like Evernote but open source. Has native apps. You can sync using a self-hosted sever easily. Works great on mobile too. Update: Oops. I always thought it was Open Source. I started using it after learning about it a HN thread some time ago. Downloaded and started using and it worked so good I didn’t have to look back about it.
It's NOT open source
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
What part of that sentence don't you understand ? It seems straightforward to me.
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...
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#78I love Obsidian's editor - it hides markup when you're not editing but shows you when your cursor is over some text. The fact that you can just drag an image into a note is great and something terminal note apps will never be able to do.
And then there's [[hypertext]]. Love it!
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#79Is 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" ?????
No it wasn't just you. The best I could understand was that it was a note-taking app that outputs in markup.
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 precious system (there's also Dendron, which is the same idea but as a vs code plugin).
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#80For anyone thinking that this "home page" is light on explanation, the actual home page is likely better for those who are new to this (excellent) product: