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Why I Like Obsidian

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Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by mdhb »

chrisweekly wrote: post #76
jimmytucson wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, clearly I touched a nerve :) But I still don't know what Obsidian gives you besides letting you write in Markdown instead of HTML. And that is basically a Markdown to HTML converter, as you pointed out.

It's hard to overstate the flowstate Obsidian enables with live / wysiwyg editor view -- enjoy the clean look of rendered HTML while typing simple markdown and kbd shortcuts -- "the whole is greater than the sum of its parts". There are many other reasons I love Obsidian, but most of all it's the core function -- the editor interface, atop my local, private markdown files.

Yes but this is the exact point.

We could have that exact same workflow and user interface with HTML.

I (presumably along with the person you’re replying to) don’t understand what value Markdown as the storage format is providing here exactly but I can think of many limitations it imposes.

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by ChatGTP »

hannofcart wrote: post #54
ChatGTP wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So your notes are sprawled across different apps?

Sure, I suppose that's one way to look at it. From my perspective though, I like that my notes are simple plain text files in a single folder whose backup and sync is entirely under my control. This often lets me run grep on my notes to quickly find old note topics.

Can obsidian render and edit the same files you edit with nvim?

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by lawgimenez »

pantulis wrote: post #77
lawgimenez wrote: post #70

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Speaking of boring, my entire life runs on Apple Notes. Everything to-dos, from family, kids, work, car, etc. I am just not sure how to migrate all of my 2,000 plus notes on to a new system. Plus with limited mobile data signal, I’m not sure if apps like Obsidian will work.

People have reported success using Exporter, which is reasonably priced. http://falcon.star-lord.me/exporter

Thanks! Will look into it.

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by ryangs »

Linking is an exceptionally good idea. It is very transformative to how I think about organizing information and doing it with Obsidian the past few months has felt great. Besides future proofing, I love the speed of processing a simple text format like markdown (plus local first) allows. Everything opens instantly, which feels very different from things like Google docs or Microsoft Word. About the only note tool it doesn't replace for me is spreadsheets that use math. There are plugins but it doesn't feel quite as clean as Google sheets for this purpose.

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by BoxFour »

ChatGTP wrote: post #82
hannofcart wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, I suppose that's one way to look at it. From my perspective though, I like that my notes are simple plain text files in a single folder whose backup and sync is entirely under my control. This often lets me run grep on my notes to quickly find old note topics.

Can obsidian render and edit the same files you edit with nvim?

Obsidian just works on markdown files so seems like it shouldn't be a problem

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by firecall »

hoherd wrote: post #69

I was unaware of this until a few weeks ago, so I'd like to raise awareness for anybody who it affects: Obsidian is not FOSS, and purchasing a license is required for any work that generates revenue at a for-profit company of 2 or more people. https://obsidian.md/license Obsidian looks awesome to me, and for a long time I've been thinking about adopting it, but this licensing issue caused me to back away and look for…

And also no Synching with a subscription!

When I already have access to the iCloud ecosystem, and Notes is excellent across iOS and macOS, I have never really seen much point in trying to use Obsidian.

But then maybe I'm missing the point of Obsidian?

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by spinningarrow »

hoherd wrote: post #69

I was unaware of this until a few weeks ago, so I'd like to raise awareness for anybody who it affects: Obsidian is not FOSS, and purchasing a license is required for any work that generates revenue at a for-profit company of 2 or more people. https://obsidian.md/license Obsidian looks awesome to me, and for a long time I've been thinking about adopting it, but this licensing issue caused me to back away and look for…

While Obsidian may not be FOSS at all, my understanding is that in general needing to purchase a license is orthogonal to whether something is FOSS - correct?

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by pyrophane »

ElongatedMusket wrote: post #59
zschuessler wrote: post #19

The killer feature for me is how extensible the software is made to be. It truly lets you operate how you know best, making very few assumptions on how you use it. Case in point: one of my favorite productivity plugins is a full-fledged Kanban board. It has deep integration into Obsidian features: - https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban

I'm going to give it another try, I had no idea the only feature I like about jira could be added to a notes app. Thanks for link

That being said, there are a great many apps with support for kanban-style boards that one could use before resorting to jira. Notion, for example, can do it.
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