Earlier quoted context omitted.
What part of that sentence don't you understand ? It seems straightforward to me.
knowledge base is buzzwordy. it's a very elaborate (and good!) note taking app.
Would you call a private wiki a note taking app ?
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#92Looks 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
Interesting - it runs rather nice for an electron app IMO. Also, the memory utilization isn't terrible (so far that I have noticed).
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#93I use Obsidian for a very simple use case compared to everything it can do. Synced markdown across all platforms, simple lists in named files, share those files to other software to perform actions against those lists.
For this use case it is the absolute best of the bunch. I've used a lot of these sorts of complex second brain things and I've settled on a very minimal approach wherein Obsidian was the clear 'best in show' for what I needed.
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#94Good news. I wonder if it can deal with deeply nested folders and get metadata from standard Markdown frontmatter already? (I have a fair amount of content already in plain Markdown, as you can see here: https://taoofmac.com/static/graph )
Did a quick test. Still seems to not support storing images alongside Markdown files (at least it breaks in mine), nor support having a default file (index.md) per folder and have the folder path be the actual page path.
Those two are actually a must for me. My team at work needed a wiki and I would only accept one with such features, eventually we found it. Still looking for something to self note taking. I'd also need something that can sync to phone cheaper, as currently I don't pay for Google keep
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Markdown editor that lets you add links to other files. You basically have a "project" consisting of a folder with various .md files.
So what is difference to vscode here? I can see a cool graph view of my links. I guess the target is not directly developers when looking at their paid sync addon, because I would simply put this into a free closed gitlab repo. I will definitely try out the free version this week :) Edit: Found md-graph that also has the same neat graph: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ianjsike...
Plugin community - stuff like pulling tasks from notes, helping with various organisational systems, etc.
Editing in a somewhat rendered markdown - it's not quite full wysiwyg, but e.g, your heading blocks are sized right, your lists are rendered as bullets until you're editing that line, etc.
Notes first UI: Stuff like the rendered view toggle, links, inline image previews are more acccessible than in vs code due to their higher relative importance.
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#96Is it me or am I the only one who took a good 3 mins to figure what this app is for ? Sorry I don't want to sound disrespectul but I didn't found an quick and easy parsable description. If I would show this my parents, I wouldn't be sure if they could guess. :/ "Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base" ?????
It's basically a Markdown editor, except not for a single document, but a collection — which might be all your documents.
Or some subset(s) sure, fine. It's flexible. But the huge value is more readily apparent when it is all the documents (for some meaningul value of "all").
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#97Is it me or am I the only one who took a good 3 mins to figure what this app is for ? Sorry I don't want to sound disrespectul but I didn't found an quick and easy parsable description. If I would show this my parents, I wouldn't be sure if they could guess. :/ "Obsidian is a powerful and extensible knowledge base" ?????
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.
As a former OneNote user who moved to Obsidian, I would say it's like comparing a go kart and luxury sedan. They both technically get you where you're going if you try hard enough. And if you're not going very far maybe all you need is a go kart.
My obsidian has turned into a personal Wikipedia and it's crazy how much it's improved my efficiency.
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#98If I use obsidian to take personal work notes, do I need a commercial license? Right now I use a giant append-only markdown file but I'm curious about the linking.
This is my use case and after reading the terms, I came to the conclusion that the answer is yes. It's an honor system setup though.
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Markdown editor that lets you add links to other files. You basically have a "project" consisting of a folder with various .md files.
So what is difference to vscode here? I can see a cool graph view of my links. I guess the target is not directly developers when looking at their paid sync addon, because I would simply put this into a free closed gitlab repo. I will definitely try out the free version this week :) Edit: Found md-graph that also has the same neat graph: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ianjsike...
It is mainly easy of use of the links and being backed by .md files (easy to backup anywhere and future-proof).
I think of Obsidian as Org mode 90% there and easier to use.
Two example of easy of use:
- You can type "[[" anywhere and start entering the title of a new or existing note (and follow that link). If the note already exists it will fuzzy match inline as you write.
- While on a note, you can change the title and all the references get updated.
There are also plugins with extra feature like note of the day, which creates and opens a file in the format 2022-10-13 so you can easily have a file for each day. Vim node also works very well.
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#100So, without clicking, what does this app do? What is it?
It's a note-taking app that emphasizes non-linear writing.
You can use it as a journal, personal wiki, knowledge base, task management, or just a Markdown text editor. There are hundreds of plugins that make it easy to tailor the app to your needs.
It's also focused on privacy and future-proofing your notes. All your data is stored locally in a folder of plain text files.