Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian
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I use it to track everything..
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Follow up (personal and work)The great thing about Obsidian is how flexible it is.
The bad thing about Obsidian is how flexible it is..
I have seen may people comment, or outright leave, Obsidian because because there was too much to learn.. or too many plugins to explore..
Personally, I only look for plugins if I need something specific. Don't see the point of trying random plugins. Is like spending time finding solutions to a problem you may not have..
Also, I work on tech and many documents are in markdown. Obsidian makes it easier to read those. Specially the collapse / expand functionality is really great for exploring large docs.. as long as the creators properly used sections (basically # for level 1, ## for level 2..and so on)
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Looks like it was deprecated last year, though
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Use obsidian enough and your brain also just starts to interpret raw markdown lmfao.
I've definitely caught myself using md to format pen and paper notes before.
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Syncthing-fork for Android is the only tricky bit
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Well, the good news? A wider audience most certainly means a FLOSS suite that can parse the data from it. It doesn't seem very opaque, but more like Markup++.
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There in fact are FOSS alternatives like Joplin. Personally, I actually switched from Joplin to Obsidian due to a larger community (and therefore community-driven plugins) and overall a more polished UX. That being said, I have the security of switching back if Obsidian ever becomes evil or unusable.
Another aspect is that the entire source code is technically viewable (partially obfuscated) since it's a web app. Having written plugins for Obsidian, you're very much interacting with the source code itself. Feels like open source with extra steps and I wish one day they will finally make the switch to true FOSS.
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Have you seen the community-made self hosted sync plugin?
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Neat, I didn't know that. I currently use Joplin this way, synced across my devices with Syncthing. Joplin also supports directly syncing to Google Drive or Dropbox (with optional encryption).
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That doesn’t change the problems I had with todoist. I was using it in a note taking format, the scheduling part wasn’t really relevant to my use.
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You can extend obsidian to basically do anything.
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Good to know. Thanks for the real world use info.
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I have not, does it work well?
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I use it for pretty much everything. Any random crap i need to jot down go into the daily notes with a tag of some sort, Excalidraw extension for any sort of diagrams or a string board for connecting different notes/pictures together, code snippets, documentation etc.
I dont use their sync, but I have proton drive keeping the directory backed up in case of emergencies, and I have a git repo for when i want to officially keep something tracked.
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That's the thing, thank you! I tried looking before and couldn't find anybody doing it. Maybe I discounted obsidian because it wasn't free or foss. If it's free now and the format is open then that helps a lot.
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Yeah, works nice as long as you have a server to host it on.
The only annoyance is that it's not very space efficient and you have to rebuild your database like twice a year to bring the size back down. It might be not that bad depending on what you do. I create above thousand new lines of notes with a lot of pictures every day and I'm at around 2GB after rebuilding the database. I expect it to go up to like 6GB biyearly, but, again, clicking on the rebuild button deals with that.
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Not daily, but their canvas feature has a feature that lets you embed previews of your files into the flow charts you make. It's pretty nice, since you can have shorter files entirely visible with everything else. Makes it pretty good for software development and project management, in my experience.
Careful not to go overboard with it, though. I feel like a lot of people fall down the "productivity pipeline" when using it, where they end up procrastinating by trying to optimize every little thing and end up doing nothing at all.
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It was yeah. But there's a fork which is much better.
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I've been really enjoying trilium as an open source alternative but fair warning it's not as polished as Obsidian
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For sure. I've been looking for a solid OneNote replacement for a few years now. Inking is the only major barrier.
I really like OneNote, and I've been using it for more than 10 years. But in recent years, my dislike for Microsoft has grown to the point where I feel I need to stop using all their products.
Right now I'm using xournal++ a lot. It has really excellent drawing functionality; but zero organisational functions. (I'm organising my xournal notes using just file names and folder structure.)
What I really want is integrated xournal support with Obsidian, or Joplin. In Joplin, I've tried inserting a pdf into my notes, and telling Joplin to open the pdf by launching xournal++. That sort of works; but the viewing of the pdf in Joplin shows a window-within-a-window; and the creating of new notes is fiddly; so I decided it wasn't quite good enough.
