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Re: Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

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Post by pseudo_meta »

duxup wrote: post #32
p1nkpineapple wrote: post #15

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FWIW, their CEO seems quite set on long-term growth instead of a quick sell, as evidenced by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39336308

That may be the CEOs intent, but if they have share holders and someone shows up with money it isn’t entirely the CEOs call. They have a responsibility to produce returns and if an offer is better than what they can do without selling their obligation is pretty clear. I’ve known some folks who I believe really wanted to grow a company but when faced with an offer to buy it they didn’t feel they could survive a legal…

Obsidian does not have any shareholders. It's a team of 6 people, and the sole owners are the two original founders.

Re: Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

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Post by VoodooJuJu »

blowski wrote: post #4

I love Obsidian - its approach, the ecosystem, and the implementation. But... I can't help but feel it will become the latest application to either pivot to something unpalatable (probably after being acquired) or become abandonware, leaving me to move to Yet Another Tool. And so it prevents me from really investing in any of it - I just use a no-frills text editor.

>...leaving me to move to Yet Another Tool.

That's actually integral to the notetaking/productivity app market. Either the app soon dies out or you get bored with it and you move on to the next one.

Just like with self-help products. Targets of the self-help market are never intended to just read one or two books and get on with their lives. They're vulnerable to seemingly unending consumption of one self-help product after another. They're endlessly sold on regurgitated feel-good crap that keeps them coming back for more.

These productivity tools, like self-help books, become the ends in themselves, rather than the means.

I used to do the same thing with productivity & learning apps and systems. Kept procrastinating looking for that One Good Tool. I had this misconception that if I didn't have that one perfect notetaking tool or productivity app, then I'd be held back.

I ultimately realized that what was really holding me back was myself.

I eliminated my dependency on The One Perfect Tool, I replaced that dependency with more practical action, lightly supported by simple pen & paper and plain text files, and now I'm more productive and more learned than ever.

Re: Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

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Post by PurpleRamen »

wgerard wrote: post #6
blowski wrote: post #4

I love Obsidian - its approach, the ecosystem, and the implementation. But... I can't help but feel it will become the latest application to either pivot to something unpalatable (probably after being acquired) or become abandonware, leaving me to move to Yet Another Tool. And so it prevents me from really investing in any of it - I just use a no-frills text editor.

For me, the nice part about Obsidian is that they're just markdown files. So even if something happens to Obsidian, the notes still exist and are still easily transferrable to something else.

That's the theory, but it's not like they use strict markdown. Markdown in the first place is a very simple and limited format, so everyone has their own syntax-extensions and tweaks, and obsidian is no exception. So even if you lose the data themselves, you could lose a significant amount of ability to work with them, if somehow obsidian becomes unusable.

And if you build on plugins, this sometimes happens even now here and there. Plugins becoming unusable because of an update is still not uncommon. Their developing stopping for whatever reason is also a bit of a problem.

Re: Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

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Post by PurpleRamen »

rubymamis wrote: post #17
blowski wrote: post #13

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Yeah, having a non-proprietary data format is a huge plus. I wish the Obsidian code itself was open source.

It’s hard to make a living with open source (saying from experience).

Obsidian is free to use, and they make their money from offering additional sync-service and good will of the users. I don't think open source would impact it much. Though, it would bear the risk of a hostile fork, maybe to include a free to sync or something. I mean the obsidian-devs have some bad history on that front.

But at least they should give some guarantee to Open Source it if there were no significant update in a while, similar to how Qt and KDE have their agreement. Or at least they should make the source available, so people can contribute or move away easier in case of problems.

Re: Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

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Post by sharps1 »

pwillia7 wrote: post #27
grandma_tea wrote: post #22

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I wanted to like Logseq, but I couldn't stand how opinionated it is about the format of my notes. Also, at least on Ubuntu 22, there was a noticeable delay when interacting with any UI element.

Interesting -- I like the bullets and the 'restrictiveness'

You can achieve a similar effect in Obsidian by using the plugins Outliner and Zoom.

I still feel Logseq is still a better outliner (although I don't use it), Obsidian is better at handling the other use cases.

Re: Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

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Post by sharps1 »

orhmeh09 wrote: post #61
bosie wrote: post #54

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what is a persistent reminder?

It keeps spamming notifications until you act on it. Very helpful if you need some help with attention.

I use the IOS "Due" app for this. I have it set-up to pull out items from Reminders that have days and times assigned.

Makes it really hard to forget those tasks.

Re: Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

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Post by PurpleRamen »

haswell wrote: post #43
blowski wrote: post #4

I love Obsidian - its approach, the ecosystem, and the implementation. But... I can't help but feel it will become the latest application to either pivot to something unpalatable (probably after being acquired) or become abandonware, leaving me to move to Yet Another Tool. And so it prevents me from really investing in any of it - I just use a no-frills text editor.

I used Evernote for well over a decade and I don’t regret that I did, despite the changes that eventually forced me to get rid of it and change my habits. There is already a growing ecosystem of tools that are Obsidian-like, and if Obsidian ever went down an unpalatable path, those tools are ready and waiting. If a no frills editor works for you, great. But at the same time, I don’t think a future problem with Obsidi…

> There is already a growing ecosystem of tools that are Obsidian-like

That very much depends on the definition of "like". Most are very different in their concepts and abilities or even foundation. They are mostly similar, if you compare it to cloud-tools, or old commercial tools.

Re: Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

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Post by SamBam »

wlesieutre wrote: post #37
SamBam wrote: post #35

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Fairly easily transferrable to something else. I assume that many of the plugins that power users use involve added non-standard stuff to the files. Like if you're adding a bunch of metadata to be consumed by the Dataview plugin, all that metadata might be worthless on a new app unless someone creates an equivalent plugin elsewhere. It's open source, so they can . But people who want forward-compatibility should prob…

It’s not open source, just free as in beer. Personally I do avoid add-ons that create special syntax in the md files so that if Obsidian ever goes shitty I’ll have an easier time migrating to whatever alternative.

Sorry, the plugins are generally open source, that's what I was referring to.
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