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Curious how you installed Linux.
Linux from Scratch. None of that systemd and its PID 1 doing network socket opened.
I assume you read all of the code yourself, and wrote a 1st stage compiler by hand?
Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
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Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
#72This website is a good test of who actually clicked the link, not able to read a thing, coming back to the comments to report the bad experience, and who didn't click the link/is a bot, talking about the article as if nothing happened.
Works fine for me, and I'm not a bot (I think).
Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
#73Current Obsidian user having migrated from Apple's Notes.app.
I used to use DokuWiki about 15 years ago (~2008) to document the IT systems at a biomedical informatics department.
Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
#74Obsidian's business model might be genius. Open file formats; closed source. By making a great product, they attract users. Usually the main argument against software like this is vendor lock-in. But by using open formats, there's always an escape hatch. If they decided to squeeze their users, I suspect a decent open source alternative would pop up very quickly. In the meantime, casual open source alternatives are ve…
Unfortunately, I think it's ultimately unethical to support the normalization of closed-source text-editing software, because it sets a bad precedent for the level of trust a user should have in their computing environment. For this reason, I much prefer Logseq. https://logseq.com/
Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
#75FWIW, Pandoc can convert from dokuwiki to markdown.
I honestly think if Pandoc had a GUI, it could genuinely be the fourth most popular word processing software out there. Just a simple GUI and a rich text editor—that's it.
Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
#76I use obsidian daily and while I love it, I do feel it’s got lots of flaws. Mostly I feel the development team is pretty opinionated with some of its choices, especially regarding its tab management. I find myself annoyed by a lot of the basic functionality and am constantly having to add custom css or plugins. I’m grateful that the plugin community is pretty large, but it sucks needing so many plugins just to make t…
What are the plugins or toggles you think should be included in the app?
Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
#77Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
#78I use obsidian daily and while I love it, I do feel it’s got lots of flaws. Mostly I feel the development team is pretty opinionated with some of its choices, especially regarding its tab management. I find myself annoyed by a lot of the basic functionality and am constantly having to add custom css or plugins. I’m grateful that the plugin community is pretty large, but it sucks needing so many plugins just to make t…
What are the plugins or toggles you think should be included in the app?
Some plugins are Another Quick Switcher, File Explorer++, Force note view mode, Remember cursor position, and Open in New Tab. These plugins mostly chance existing functionality to work better how I would expect them to or add some QOL features. Obviously I don't expect Obsidian to implement massive features like Dataview, Kanban, Projects, Calendars, etc.
One of my biggest complaints though is Obsidian's tab management. Notes are always opened in whatever tab I am currently in, even if the note is already open in another tab. I know that I can just hold shift or ctrl to do a new tab but I forget to do that all the time and would just love a toggle to always open notes in a new tab, or swap to an existing tab that note is already open in.
The default quick switcher I feel is also very bare bones. I can't search by tags for example.
I would also love it if obsidian had native markdown table support similar to how the advanced tables plugin works. I know I can just use that plugin but it does not work in live preview edit mode which is what I prefer to use. I don't know if that's an Obsidian issue or a plugin issue.
I'd also like to see tree style tabs or just vertical tabs in general similar to vscode's open editors feature. I tend of have many tabs open and am constantly switching around.
Overall though maybe I'm just using Obsidian wrong or its just not for me, but out of all the note taking apps/markdown editors I've used, Obsidian is the closest to perfect that I've seen.
EDIT: I should add as well, I do appreciate that Obsidian allows for plugins and custom CSS. I'd rather be able to change the things that I don't like rather than be locked into the default functionality. However with some of these plugins being implemented in "hacky" ways as their description says while also not being updated in quite some time, I do wonder how much longer they will continue to work before an update breaks them permanently.
Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
#79Obsidian's business model might be genius. Open file formats; closed source. By making a great product, they attract users. Usually the main argument against software like this is vendor lock-in. But by using open formats, there's always an escape hatch. If they decided to squeeze their users, I suspect a decent open source alternative would pop up very quickly. In the meantime, casual open source alternatives are ve…
I compared many options and after being messed around by my last provider which used a closed format making leaving hard, having my entire vault as a folder of files that remain in an open and broadly used format? A dream come true. It ranks among the top products I pay for in terms of absolute satiafaction as well as value add per dollar spent. The community plugins are fantastic, the core plugins are incredibly useful, the whole thing is sleek amd well designed. I cannot express how much I love this produt and the community that has built up around it.
Re: Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
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What are the plugins or toggles you think should be included in the app?
Some plugins are Another Quick Switcher, File Explorer++, Force note view mode, Remember cursor position, and Open in New Tab. These plugins mostly chance existing functionality to work better how I would expect them to or add some QOL features. Obviously I don't expect Obsidian to implement massive features like Dataview, Kanban, Projects, Calendars, etc. One of my biggest complaints though is Obsidian's tab managem…
Thanks, I'll think about it :)