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Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by dimitri-vs »

raviisoccupied wrote: post #34

I’m an Obsidian user. I pay for Obsidian sync, and I love the philosophy behind their product. However, and I feel stupid for saying this, but I just find it confusing to use. It’s difficult for me to wrap my head around plugins, and understanding how it wants me to use it. For now, I’m just sticking to using it for daily notes, but I feel there’s so much I’m missing.

It's not you, it's the productivity influencers making you think it's "supposed to be" more than what it is: a nice UI to edit a collection of markdown files.

I realized this when I opened my Vault in Cursor/VSCode to use the coding agent for editing (which is truly a bizarre feature for Obsidian to NOT have for normal writing).

Every Obsidian YT video is about mind maps, how to organize your files, using relative links and weird plugins that break the premise of having universal markdown files. Well it's completely wasted time now that an LLM can search the whole vault and aggregate an answer across dozens of your notes.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by Ezhik »

Eji1700 wrote: post #43
raviisoccupied wrote: post #34

I’m an Obsidian user. I pay for Obsidian sync, and I love the philosophy behind their product. However, and I feel stupid for saying this, but I just find it confusing to use. It’s difficult for me to wrap my head around plugins, and understanding how it wants me to use it. For now, I’m just sticking to using it for daily notes, but I feel there’s so much I’m missing.

I think the one thing that really kills me is "consolidating" data is harder than it probably should be. A simple thing I started with was "lets track movies and shows people recommend to me and I watch". Ok, page for each rec, and then I can use props to tag them with things like if I watched them or not, who recommended them, genre's, and most importantly, if it's just for me, or also something the wife would enjoy…

Hyperlinks are all you need: https://ezhik.jp/hypertext-maximalism/

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by obsidianbases1 »

redkoala wrote: post #69

One thing I still need is the ability to paste screenshots in-line in notes easily, like how OneNote handles it.

Admittedly, I don't know how OneNote handles it.

But as an Obsidian power-user, I regularly paste screenshots into notes

There is a plugin that allows templating the screenshot file name, so naming the pasted screenshot, using the same as the note where it's being pasted, and a timestamp, for example, is easy.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by slightwinder »

abrookewood wrote: post #62

I don't think they do that good a job of explaining what it is, but the Reddit post linked below included this comment which is helptful: "You know how when you search your notes for something, say a phrase? Well, Bases can basically hold a static search that automatically updates. And, instead of searching all over again, you just click into the Bases file and new notes are just there in the default table format. On…

The first sentence of the documentation already says it: "turn any set of notes into a powerful database". It's really just that, basically. It's a database-view, where the vault is the database and the rows are your files. There is a fancy GUI for creating views, and it seems there is the ability for live-editing data from within the view. Basically a more user-friendly replacement for the very popular dataview-plugin.

Maybe it's a bit harder to understand, as it's a more mushy than the usual relational database.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by jdprgm »

This would really benefit from a 10-15 minute video demo building up a simple example use case in a similar style to how dhh previews rails.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by dtkav »

echelon wrote: post #20
alberth wrote: post #11

This is slick. Does anyone know what JS library (presumably) they are using to display, filter, sort the table?

This is beyond slick. I'm finally able to kill Notion (good riddance - I never liked it!), and if it can handle larger tables then I'll stop using Google Suite as well. My last request of the Obsidian team is a better git plugin. Their official built-in sync product is fine, but I'd still like to manage my own versioning so I can use automations. The currently available git plugin is extremely dangerous (!!!) if set…

The Git plugin is great for single-device backup IMO, but not great for device sync or collaboration.

I've been working on making Obsidian "work for work" with a real-time collaboration plugin called Relay [0]. We use CRDTs for conflict resolution between users/clients and it also happens to remove a ton of headaches for device-to-device sync as well.

Our collaboration server can be run on-premise and we also just open sourced a Git Sync connector so you can do google-docs style collab via Obsidian+Relay but still have the merged documents end up in git (and plug into (Markdown + git)-centric publishing workflows like Mintlify and Quartz.

The whole Obsidian ecosystem feels really electric right now.

[0] https://relay.md

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by abalaji »

This seems useful for folks who use Obsidian as a personal CRM. I got some queries with data view that I'm going to see if this can replace:

https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/

I often want to answer questions like:

- When was the last time I chatted with this person - What did we talk about - Who haven't I spoken to in a while

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by ujkhsjkdhf234 »

nylonstrung wrote: post #45
raviisoccupied wrote: post #34

I’m an Obsidian user. I pay for Obsidian sync, and I love the philosophy behind their product. However, and I feel stupid for saying this, but I just find it confusing to use. It’s difficult for me to wrap my head around plugins, and understanding how it wants me to use it. For now, I’m just sticking to using it for daily notes, but I feel there’s so much I’m missing.

I highly recommend Siyuan as an alternative, it has many the best features from obsidian plugins included by default

SiYuan doesn't have canvas. Obsidian Canvas is great for diagrams.

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by Wolfbeta »

nylonstrung wrote: post #45
raviisoccupied wrote: post #34

I’m an Obsidian user. I pay for Obsidian sync, and I love the philosophy behind their product. However, and I feel stupid for saying this, but I just find it confusing to use. It’s difficult for me to wrap my head around plugins, and understanding how it wants me to use it. For now, I’m just sticking to using it for daily notes, but I feel there’s so much I’m missing.

I highly recommend Siyuan as an alternative, it has many the best features from obsidian plugins included by default

Dev has a history of installing cryptominers in his previous projects and rootkitting people into starring and forking his projects.

https://www.v2ex.com/t/534800

Re: Obsidian Bases

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Post by [deleted] »

raybb wrote: post #55
raybb wrote: post #42

For those curious, this feature is just now publicly launching and before it was only available to people who paid for early access. The Reddit thread has some good discussion about the feature https://old.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1mtxh52/obsidia...

On a side note, the docs don't seem to mention if this is possible but does anyone know how to use a template or set a default frontmatter (like created date) when using the "new" button in a Base? The solution I used before bases is eh... pretty hacky. ```meta-bind-js-view {memory^inputText} as title --- const toShow = context.bound.title || "TKTK"; const str = `\`\`\`meta-bind-button label: New Project Idea - ${toS…

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