[fuckinpuppers]

This will save me the overhead of running it in a docker container (I think it used mono or something) so that’s cool.

I am still split using Evernote mostly because the experience feels a little more purpose built. I have some annoying usability issues with Obsidian. Control-N starts a new note not in the folder I’m in, but at the top level. Then I have to go move it by hand.

Having multiple vaults open winds up with multiple individual windows. A hack is to have one meta vault that encompasses all the sub vaults, but that itself is weird.

I would love to have an official multi-vault option. I have separate vaults so I can have work specific things or other things that aren’t exposing the fact I have other vaults tied to my account. However I have some systems I want all of my vaults available, but not multiple instances of obsidian running rather than one instance addressing all vaults - there is a workaround but it feels a too brittle and unofficial. The editor is a little rough comparatively too, even with a couple plugins to help, and I’m not even someone who cares to embed images, pdfs, other things directly in notes. Evernote is overkill and obsidian feels slightly off. Almost there. I’m sure it can be customized better, for example <li> items render well in Evernote but obsidian shows them as markdown and the switching between view, edit and realtime seems difficult to get right.

So I’m still paying for both… and I’d prefer not to. Obsidian feels like a better fit overall, I don’t care about all those Evernote features or AI or crazy rich experiences…

[kepano]

> Control-N starts a new note not in the folder I’m in, but at the top level

Settings → Default location for new notes → Same folder as current file

> <li> items render well in Evernote but obsidian shows them as markdown

Settings → Editor → Default editing mode → Live Preview

[chrisweekly]

"obsidian shows them as markdown" = try editor settings ("Live Preview")

in terms of embedded vaults, I agree there should be better native support -- but I was also delighted to discover Relay (https://relay.md) which supports directory-level (not just vault-level) sync.