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Why I Like Obsidian

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Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by Hoefner »

lawgimenez wrote: post #70
Multicomp wrote: post #47

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on your favorite notetaking app OP, it's more than I've done for mine. I'm glad it works for you, the in-between applications trying to do notetaking is a pain. I settled on OneNote because I'm always trying to capture context with my notes, codify my knowledge. Usually that means screenshots, handwriting, file copies, rarely video or audio embeddings. I'm not going to try to convince…

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.

Also Obsidian has Importer plugin for Apple Notes

https://help.obsidian.md/import/apple-notes

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by aosaigh »

jdksmdbtbdnmsm wrote: post #67
dustincoates wrote: post #41

I like Obsidian, too, having recently switched over from 9 years of OneNote (the fact that there's a tool to import my OneNote notes helped a lot). The most important tip for getting started with Obsidian, in my mind, is to absolutely ignore all of the Obsidian "power users." I'm 99% convinced that no one actually uses zettelkasten seriously, but even if so, it's overkill for when you're just checking out the app. An…

Because who doesn't love running random github repos in a root process?

No mention of Github repos in the parent comment.

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by arnejenssen »

brightball wrote: post #73
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…

The big win for Obsidian here is that everything is just saved as markdown, so you're not locked in even with their license.

What I am wondering about is that although the basic files are markdown, some of the plugins might be proprietary. So that the part of the contents in the markdown files in effect creates a lock-in?

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by WJW »

firecall wrote: post #86
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?

It's entirely possible to just stick your files in dropbox or something like that and they sync just fine.

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by yurishimo »

firecall wrote: post #86
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?

I think it depends on what you use notes for. Just a scratchpad of random, mostly ephemeral ideas or simple folders? Notes is probably good enough.

Obsidian is designed for those people that want to minmax their note taking and find reasons to increase productivity by providing robust linking and search capabilities within any document. The photos in the OP are a good example of how many people use Obsidian.

That said, I'm not an expert (never used it personally), but that's how I understand it.

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by minzi »

hannofcart wrote: post #21

My notes system is: On desktop: Nvim with some markdown plugins plus Goyo On mobile: Obsidian Syncthing for sync (though previously I've Dropbox as well for the same) On desktop I find Obsidian's vim mode slightly uncanny valley-ish. Close enough to be able to emulate my vim flow. But not _quite_ right. On mobile, I've found Obsidian to be just top class. Though admittedly most of my real note taking happens on deskt…

How are you using syncthing on mobile? I didn't know that was even possible.

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by ghosty141 »

rubymamis wrote: post #40
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

You might like my own note-taking app, Plume[1] that's built with Qt C++ and QML. You can integrate a Kanban board (with underlying Markdown text) right within your document[2]. It's still a work-in-progress, so this is why it's not featured yet on the website. But I'll finish implementing it very soon. Unlike Obsidian, Plume's editor is a block-editor. That gives it the flexibility of Notion (to put advanced blocks…

Will it be open source?

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by brightball »

arnejenssen wrote: post #94
brightball wrote: post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The big win for Obsidian here is that everything is just saved as markdown, so you're not locked in even with their license.

What I am wondering about is that although the basic files are markdown, some of the plugins might be proprietary. So that the part of the contents in the markdown files in effect creates a lock-in?

Potentially. I don't use many of the plugins so I can't say with authority.

Re: Why I Like Obsidian

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Post by Feathercrown »

FredPret wrote: post #78
Multicomp wrote: post #47

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on your favorite notetaking app OP, it's more than I've done for mine. I'm glad it works for you, the in-between applications trying to do notetaking is a pain. I settled on OneNote because I'm always trying to capture context with my notes, codify my knowledge. Usually that means screenshots, handwriting, file copies, rarely video or audio embeddings. I'm not going to try to convince…

I once had a job where I needed tons of notes on hundreds of clients and dozens of subjects. Detailed technical notes with screenshots and code snippets and names and birthdays and to-do lists. I used OneNote. It worked brilliantly. Until my notebook file corrupted. Obsidian does the same job, but I miss the tabs. At least it’s all text files - no proprietary files to corrupt.

Obsidian has tabs, you can right click --> open in new tab
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