Looks nice and based on my initial quick tests seems rather lean, and yet it is cross platform. Can I ask what the tech stack looks like? development language(s)? Cross platform UI library?
It's an electron app
Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
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#82If Obsidian ever added some good inking/handwriting recognition stuff, it would be a contender for the best note taking app out there.
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#83So, 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.
Common misconception, but Obsidian itself is not open source
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#84First I’m hearing of Obsidian, sounds cool. Can anyone comment on how it compares to org-mode?
Current org-mode user here, former Obsidian user. Although much more extensible than apps like Joplin, Notion or - god forbid - Evernote, Obsidian comes nowhere near the freedom you have in Org-mode. You can customize Obsidian to fit your workflow to some extent, but not by a whole lot. Then again: for most people that is enough. Most want to drive a car, not build it.
There is afaik no such thing as an org-agenda in Obsidian, which is a deal breaker for me. Also to do list handling is shoddy at best (it would probably be a perfect app if that got integrated, e.g. via a todo.txt format with a calendar) but alas.
If I weren't an org-mode user, Obsidian would probably be my pick. It is very nice in everything it does, but it just doesn't have that "edge" of creating a setup that is ugly, complicated an unrecognizable from its default. It may be ugly, but at least it's _your_ ugly.
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#85Earlier quoted context omitted.
My thoughts exactly. It sounds cool and I will try it, but even at this moment I'm not sure how is this different then for example OneNote. Again, don't want to sound disrespectful and I will definitely try the tool.
> I'm not sure how is this different then for example OneNote The main difference is that your notes are stored in a readable plain text format. But if you are interested in an open format, you may as well go the full route and use the similar open-source app logseq instead. [1] https://logseq.com/
I feel Dendron is practically the more equivalent open source tool, logseq is a more opinionated tool, being focused on the bulleted sequential use case that it actually feels relatively different to use
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#86what separates this from sublime?
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#87Love Obsidian! Congrats. The new UI looks awesome!
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#88Between Obsidian, Roam, Amplenote, and Reflect it has certainly been a golden age for note taking over the last few years. It's hard to remember that it was only 5 years ago that second generation note apps like Evernote, Notion and Bear were the only viable options unless you wanted a 1st gen app like OneNote or Workflowy. What might be most interesting about the new set of fast moving note apps is that all seem to…
I'm still waiting on one of these upstarts to implement the most essential features of the "first gen" apps, like inking/handwriting.
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#89I have no idea what Obsidian is and their frontpage does nothing to tell me what it is. All I can see is that it's been updated, but WTF is it? edit: ahh, it wasn't the frontpage...
It's a note taking app that uses markdown and plain text files. Gives some nice organizational views. That's it.
1st 2 sentences: true.
Last sentence: not even close. It integrates w/ a Calendar, with Excalidraw for notes in images and vice versa, and via Dataview and DQL supports querying... its featureset is incredible.
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#90Congratulations, and also: holy fucking shit!! no app has changed my day-to-day life to this degree in many, many years.
I use Obsidian every morning on my roof deck for my journal (automated with the plugin, of course) and then at my desk all day long for my daily WTF blah blah info-capturing tool.
Sure I wish it had more features (persist collapsed/expanded state, even in a best-effort, might-not-last-forever kind of way! build in git support because apple makes it too hard for plugin guys to do on mobile!) but the fact that it is all just "standard" markdown and image files washes away all almost my complaints.
I use the paid Sync plugin, too (even though it's standard files and folders; could totally do it myself! could totally just use SyncThing! etc!) so that it is on all my machines and virtual machines. Perfect for sysadmin logs of things you touch only annually, e.g. Dad's iMac.
To HN readers who haven't tried it: it's the millennials' VisiCalc, basically, except for words.