I just downloaded deb and was a bit worried that it has 60MB, quick check on forums and it us unfortunately Electron :(
Oh well, back to vim and cd.
Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
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Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
#82Last I checked there was no good way to do quick capture of articles from mobile iOS to obsidian. Scenario — I come across an article on my iPhone, and I just want to dump title + URL (maybe even the text content) into obsidian. This is a must have for any note taking tool. Anyone have a good workflow for this, please share. Ideally an iOS shortcut.
In the spirit of HN always recommending, to my absolute infuration, "Org-Mode" to noobs usisc Windows when it is clearly a non-solution, I'll offer my own non-solution. Don't take notes on your phone. My relationship with my phone is the best it has been in a decade, because I fucking despise using that thing. It's cramped, limited, inflexible, addictive and disposable. It's an awful machine to do anything non trivia…
I actually do all of those things you mentioned but also like to keep things simple and take my notes on iAWriter on my iPhone which syncs with iCloud and is very conveniently available on my iPad and Mac as well. Haven’t found a more simple and markdown supporting application in years. You don’t need to dump all functionalities of your phone to enjoy life.
Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’d check out logseq [0]. Closer to roam than obsidian, but GPL, operates on plaintext files, and supports Org-mode style formatting as well as markdown. It’s getting to be fairly fully featured by now, and the development team moves fast. It’s a joy to use. [0]: https://logseq.com/
This looks great! Does it expose the directory where the files are written, so that I can use Dropbox to sync? Does it support templates like how Notion does?
Yep, and you choose where logseq files are stored, so you can use anything you'd like to for syncing. I will say though, I've tried using Dropbox for syncing with logseq, and it ended up creating a lot of duplicate copies due to conflicts. Have had better luck with iCloud/Syncthing (also, many people actually use Obsidian + logseq, so I believe you can take advantage of Obsidian's sync if you choose to). In any case, having better file syncing is something the logseq devs are currently working on.
Logseq does not currently have templates integrated the way Notion does, but it wouldn't be difficult to programmatically create them since they're just plain markdown files. There's a plugin ecosystem for logseq now, so I think it's just a matter of time before someone writes one to generate templates.
Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
#84My biggest protip for Obsidian would be to never look at the connections graph. If you've got any kind of "completionist" mindset, it's easy to waste a bunch of time trying to perfectly format your notes so every node has a bunch of connections to other nodes. Once I got out of the habit trying to maximize the amount of backlinks in each note, it became a useful tool instead of a chore.
Ironically i found the same behaviour in me and immediately thought it would be a great idea to further gamify colleagues writing docs. There is something rewarding about keeping the graph optimal. It becomes almost pretty to look at.
Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
#85> With Obsidian, your data sits in a local folder. Never leave your life's work held hostage in the cloud again. ... says a brochure page for proprietary software.
Software can be proprietary and local-only.
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#86I built a simple journal solution for myself two years ago. It sends an email every day and I can reply to it, and the response is stored in an SQLite database, in plain text. The db is on a remote server but copied to Dropbox every day (and in any case all the emails also exist in my sent folder). It is surprisingly effective at storing not just what I did with my day, but random thoughts and ideas, solutions to bug…
Did you publish code?
Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
#87I built a simple journal solution for myself two years ago. It sends an email every day and I can reply to it, and the response is stored in an SQLite database, in plain text. The db is on a remote server but copied to Dropbox every day (and in any case all the emails also exist in my sent folder). It is surprisingly effective at storing not just what I did with my day, but random thoughts and ideas, solutions to bug…
I just wrapped up writing my own. I’ve been following a lot of projects such as Archivy and Obsidian for a while, but neither of them were what I needed. Wrote a flask app that does exactly what I need.
Obsidian’s business model is really smart: creating a knowledge management system that applies to the vast majority of use cases, add room for a little modularity, and monetize it.
However for those edge use cases, which on HN might be closer to a majority, it’s important to first hash out exactly what sort of features you need.
Do you need to link files as well as notes in a knowledge graph?
Do you need to use advanced search filters?
How much data are you dealing with?
Just some food for thought.
Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
#88I built a simple journal solution for myself two years ago. It sends an email every day and I can reply to it, and the response is stored in an SQLite database, in plain text. The db is on a remote server but copied to Dropbox every day (and in any case all the emails also exist in my sent folder). It is surprisingly effective at storing not just what I did with my day, but random thoughts and ideas, solutions to bug…
Your solution seems to miss the single most important feature of Obsidian, the ability to link notes together with references directly in the documents.
Obsidian is a knowledge base, what you are describing is a note taking solution. Might work for most people who just want to scribble things down, but once you start having information you want to inter-connect, it'll break down.
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#89This looks great. Downloaded. Jotted down some Sunday morning idiocy. Paid for Catalyst. Question: who decided Moldova [1] was a good idea? Was Obsidian.kp taken? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.md
.md is the markdown file extension, so having a .md TLD is a clever and amusing idea imo as Obsidian is, after all, a markdown editor.
It's clever until you hit issues with uptime, or breaking the specific rules of the TLD. I'm also a supporter of Obsidian, but it scares me that the domain is under the whim of the Moldovian government and could get shut down/redirected if someone who uses Obsidian Publish decides to write "bad" stuff about government officials since the TLD doesn't allow that.
> Registration restrictions: Prohibited domain names with bad taste, foul language, injurious to public order or to public sensibilities, with offending character, or with obscene or pornographic words
Re: Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
#90I am looking to move from Notion, looking for an alternative. Here are few things I am looking for: 1. It is easy to back up or export my data 2. Great UI! May be its just me, I care about the UI a lot and if it is nice, I seem to be writing more 3. Support for templates, so that I can write daily journal/entries with predefined fields 4. Support for keyboard shortcuts (or mouse-less operations) so that I can link or…
Seems you left the comment at the right submission then as Obsidian supports all of those things.