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Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by JonChesterfield »

Buried in this is a reference to https://help.obsidian.md/How+to/Link+to+blocks

Turns out a (carefully written) link in one document will render as the contents of some part of another document. Possibly more useful in this context is https://help.obsidian.md/How+to/Embed+files

I've been trying literate programming in obsidian and that looks like a very direct solution to having source code in separate files, which all the tooling definitely prefers, which still renders inline from the main document.

Does broadly work - the ```C ``` style block disables the embedding, so the markdown syntax to pretty print the code needs to be in the source file, not in the file that embeds it. Also the ^block_name syntax can't be on the same line as the closing ```.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by a10c »

stefandesu wrote: post #60
tfsh wrote: post #7

There's a useful plugin called "Daily Notes" which automatically creates a note each day with your desired template, along with the calendar plugin I have a daily chronology of everything I've done which I deem noteworthy. If anyones interested in Obsidian and daily journalling keep the initial ceremony low. Some people have sections for challenges, achievements, mood, emails, to-dos, etc. That'll be far too much cog…

There's also the "Periodic Notes" plugin which additionally allows for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes.

Which integrates nicely with the Calendar plugin (you can click the week view to create a weekly note directly in the calendar)

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by TeMPOraL »

rroot wrote: post #75
laputan_machine wrote: post #33

Does anyone have any experience with Joplin[0] as an alternative? I'm looking into using SyncThing + Joplin to create a sort of 'networked personal brain'. I was originally looking at Obsidian, but the arguments on why they chose not to go FOSS are pretty weak[2] imo, so I'm looking at using Joplin instead. [0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ [1] https://syncthing.net/ [2] https://obsidian.rocks/why-isnt-obsidia…

My only two frustrations with otherwise brilliant Joplin is the sync and (lack of encryption). Encryption: data isn't encrypted at rest. The author seems to be quite dismissive of the idea: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/289 But then it's advertised as "end-to-end encryption" but that only refers to data being encrypted while it sits on a sync point. Perhaps within the definition of end-to-end, but might…

> Encryption: data isn't encrypted at rest. The author seems to be quite dismissive of the idea: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/289

Skimming the thread, the author does have a good point: this is something that should be handled on the OS level, ideally in a transparent way on top of the filesystem. It makes no sense for every app to be handling securing documents on their own. Perhaps we'll get there one of these days.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by drakonka »

I tried Obsidian on Windows early this year and found it to be quite slow and clunky, but it seems like everyone else loves it. Is it that the software has improved since earlier this year, or was it just a local issue all along?

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by ygouzerh »

That's a very good idea to write down what you did during the day, it saved me from a bad burnout. I was working on multiple projects in parallel, and got the feeling that I was doing nothing productive on my day, but was always stressed and tired.

Writing down what you did during the day allows to see that you actually did a lot of things. I put even meeting and technical discussions with others, because it's still takes work time.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by brimwats »

drakonka wrote: post #94

I tried Obsidian on Windows early this year and found it to be quite slow and clunky, but it seems like everyone else loves it. Is it that the software has improved since earlier this year, or was it just a local issue all along?

I've never heard it described as slow, except in cases of purposefully stress teasing (vaults with 100,000+ notes). I've got nearly 10k and it works great on a 10yo laptop.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by Aeolun »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #93
rroot wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My only two frustrations with otherwise brilliant Joplin is the sync and (lack of encryption). Encryption: data isn't encrypted at rest. The author seems to be quite dismissive of the idea: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/289 But then it's advertised as "end-to-end encryption" but that only refers to data being encrypted while it sits on a sync point. Perhaps within the definition of end-to-end, but might…

> Encryption: data isn't encrypted at rest. The author seems to be quite dismissive of the idea: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/289 Skimming the thread, the author does have a good point: this is something that should be handled on the OS level, ideally in a transparent way on top of the filesystem. It makes no sense for every app to be handling securing documents on their own. Perhaps we'll get there one…

The OS does do this when you have FDE enabled right?

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by stefandesu »

a10c wrote: post #92
stefandesu wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's also the "Periodic Notes" plugin which additionally allows for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes.

Which integrates nicely with the Calendar plugin (you can click the week view to create a weekly note directly in the calendar)

True, forgot to mention that, that's how I use it as well. I use it for my journal and it works very well for me.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by brimwats »

Abishek_Muthian wrote: post #12

Since this post will attract Obisidan veterans, I asking for some validation of two potential need-gaps in Obisidian I'm tracking for a while - 1. Live recommendation for Obsidian[1] Say I'm typing a note and write a sentence about echo location then I get recommended a previous note with a comment from a HN user about how moths escape bats by deafening it in a side panel. It's not a keyword based recommendation, But…

try either the Influx or Strange New World plugins for #1, depending on how you have your vault set up (either mostly daily notes or not respectively)
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