Why I Like Obsidian
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Why I Like Obsidian
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Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#2 > allows structure to grow organically
> powerful feature ... Internal Links.
> plain text files
Doesn't HTML have all of these features - hyperlinks, folder structures, "plain" text? Isn't HTML also future proof? It's been around long enough. And doesn't it also work offline? There's a bunch of different apps out there that support viewing these both on and offline.
So, do people just use Obsidian/Markdown because they like dislike "HTML"?
edit: I'm not saying it's "wrong" to dislike HTML. I'm 50% trolling and 50% saying none of these are features of Obsidian. They're features of HTML (and Markdown is its shorthand).
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#3> allows structure to grow organically > powerful feature ... Internal Links. > plain text files Well, they're not _plain_ text - there is some markup. So that invites the question - why not HyperText Markup Language? Doesn't HTML have all of these features - hyperlinks, folder structures, "plain" text? Isn't HTML also future proof? It's been around long enough. And doesn't it also work offline? There's a bunch of di…
they like it because
# title
this is the paragraph
is more natural to write than:
... title
this is the paragraph
when you're just jotting some thoughts down.
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#4I love Obsidian for being a dead simple UI for managing my markdown files. I’ve found that the cloud features are not for me. What I need is to wire it more organically up to a GitHub repo.
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#5> allows structure to grow organically > powerful feature ... Internal Links. > plain text files Well, they're not _plain_ text - there is some markup. So that invites the question - why not HyperText Markup Language? Doesn't HTML have all of these features - hyperlinks, folder structures, "plain" text? Isn't HTML also future proof? It's been around long enough. And doesn't it also work offline? There's a bunch of di…
Markdown is so much easier to read and maintain in its raw form. I can't imagine trying to take meeting notes in html.
``` - [ ] Item 1 - [ ] Item 2 ```
``` Item 1 Item 2 ```
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#6> allows structure to grow organically > powerful feature ... Internal Links. > plain text files Well, they're not _plain_ text - there is some markup. So that invites the question - why not HyperText Markup Language? Doesn't HTML have all of these features - hyperlinks, folder structures, "plain" text? Isn't HTML also future proof? It's been around long enough. And doesn't it also work offline? There's a bunch of di…
Pretty much. You want to optimize for fluidity in writing, and angle brackets just get in the way too much.
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#7> allows structure to grow organically > powerful feature ... Internal Links. > plain text files Well, they're not _plain_ text - there is some markup. So that invites the question - why not HyperText Markup Language? Doesn't HTML have all of these features - hyperlinks, folder structures, "plain" text? Isn't HTML also future proof? It's been around long enough. And doesn't it also work offline? There's a bunch of di…
they like it because # title this is the paragraph is more natural to write than: ... title this is the paragraph when you're just jotting some thoughts down.
So the answer to my original question is - yes :)
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#8> allows structure to grow organically > powerful feature ... Internal Links. > plain text files Well, they're not _plain_ text - there is some markup. So that invites the question - why not HyperText Markup Language? Doesn't HTML have all of these features - hyperlinks, folder structures, "plain" text? Isn't HTML also future proof? It's been around long enough. And doesn't it also work offline? There's a bunch of di…
they like it because # title this is the paragraph is more natural to write than: ... title this is the paragraph when you're just jotting some thoughts down.
Totally agree
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#9> allows structure to grow organically > powerful feature ... Internal Links. > plain text files Well, they're not _plain_ text - there is some markup. So that invites the question - why not HyperText Markup Language? Doesn't HTML have all of these features - hyperlinks, folder structures, "plain" text? Isn't HTML also future proof? It's been around long enough. And doesn't it also work offline? There's a bunch of di…
The main point of Markdown is that it's easy to write and read without any extra rendering processes.
https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#philosop...
Here is a nice article of many light weight markup languages:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightweight_markup_language
I like Markdown a lot, though I prefer org-mode due to the extra features it comes with.
Re: Why I Like Obsidian
#10> allows structure to grow organically > powerful feature ... Internal Links. > plain text files Well, they're not _plain_ text - there is some markup. So that invites the question - why not HyperText Markup Language? Doesn't HTML have all of these features - hyperlinks, folder structures, "plain" text? Isn't HTML also future proof? It's been around long enough. And doesn't it also work offline? There's a bunch of di…
HTML was not really meant to be generated by humans. Just like XML, it's supposed to be machine readable first and foremost.