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Obsidian Note Taking App Thoughts

56 points| ednico | 5 years ago |thefortunelabs.com

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kderbyma|5 years ago

I am working on a system for independent websites that is akin to this. rather than focusing on notebooks, I decided I wanted to make a system for making websites from notes.

it's going to be incorporating a few features like distributed hosting, version control, offline and archive modes and distribution. client driven content and work on adding new plugins.

ednico|5 years ago

This sounds really interesting. Do share the link when you are done. Thanks

neurotrace|5 years ago

Personally, I moved from Obsidian to Foam: https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ VS Code is a much better editor, in my opinion, and I enjoy having the entire VS Code ecosystem of plugins available to me

jtsiskin|5 years ago

| “A second brain, for you, forever”

My biggest issue is no mobile app. It’s can’t really claim to be a second brain if it’s only accessible at your computer

bohrious|5 years ago

You'll want to look into gitjournal. It won't work well large vaults (no wikilinks)... but it works for a separate vault with the files I want on the go. That would be shopping lists and the ol' do-queue. Dendron, a vscode extension is also a great alternate/partner to Obsidian. They both have they're strengths and they play well together as they have converged on a future-proof spec of Markdown+wikilinks+LateX. Plus you can already Publish with it using 11ty! e.g: https://texdeck.com

ednico|5 years ago

On the roadmap there are plans to introduce a lightweight mobile app in the near future. Here's hoping this will come soon but the Devs are doing a cracking job

djeiasbsbo|5 years ago

I use Syncthing/Nextcloud to sync the notes to my phone where I use another markdown editor. It works pretty well.

ecf|5 years ago

It’s almost a meme at this point for all these latest and greatest note taking tools to forget mobile exists.

bostonvaulter2|5 years ago

Big fan of Obsidian, I love that it's completely usable on it's own (without a cloud) and you can bring your own syncing technology to it, whether that's syncthing or Dropbox.

ednico|5 years ago

This is a huge + for me too. I have my notes saved on Google Drive and can access them across computers. Makes things so simple and easy to use

hijklmno|5 years ago

I have been using Obsidian for the past few months, and I love it! Hoping for a mobile app soon.

djeiasbsbo|5 years ago

I do love it but I really hope that it will be open sourced. There are some features that I want that are very unlikely to get implemented.

ednico|5 years ago

Completely agree. A mobile app, even lightweight, would add a lot of benefits

pivic|5 years ago

I like the information about plugins, yet miss stuff like Obsidian Publish. I've written a more scatterbrained and comprehensive blog post about Obsidian: https://niklasblog.com/?p=25043

perryizgr8|5 years ago

Looks amazing. Having recently moved to a Macbook as my daily machine, I was missing Notepad++ immensely. I had a portable version of the ap stored in my Dropbox and would have 100s of tabs opened in it accessible from anywhere.

Hoping to get some of that functionality back with Obsidian.

inakarmacoma|5 years ago

I've been working on it all day! It's a great app with an active community.

ednico|5 years ago

Agree. The community on the Discordust be one of the most active I have seen. It is sometimes difficult just to keep up

qwerty456127|5 years ago

How do you get Obsidian 0.10.5? I only get offered 0.10.1/

ednico|5 years ago

I have the insider build. These are usually released a couple of weeks prior to the main app being released