Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian
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dam thats a lot for a sync. I guess its supporting the project.
Itβs $4 a month for 1GB of storage, not insane
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This post was how I learned about Obsidian.
For those of you that love it, how do you use it daily?
I use it for note taking at work. I like that I can add code into markdown. But yeah post notes and paste screenshots. Useful when I want to go over my old tech notes when I've fixed stuff. A personal knowledge base. The fact it's markdown I could just upload this to somewhere like GitHub and it retains it's formatting
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I just paid for the sync
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οΈItβs $4 a month, I drink one beer less a month and I actually save 3β¬
Oh I don't disagree, it is worth it. I ended up paying for it myself before I switched to Joplin. I just went down a rabbit hole of realizing I technically could self host the backend and stubbornly tried to make it work well beyond what was good sense at the time.
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Note-taking app. Each note is a markdown file, so you can add formatting.
A very successful one with a large extension ecosystem to boot.
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You mean all the other methods that exist that can be implemented with ease? My friends have their notes on iCloud to sync, I amuse syncthing, others use GitHub. There is a lot of choice, they just offer an easy alternative way to do it
You can choose to look at it like that, but for me, it was too big of a hassle and switched to appFlowy
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I used to get a lot of merge conflicts working with obsidian and syncthing, as I'd edit on my phone and my computer(s).
Honestly started considering just spinning up a git repo, but knowing me I'd forget to commit lol
The git plugin commits automatically. All configurable. I've set it up on both PC and Android once at the beginning and I didn't have to think about it ever again.
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A very successful one with a large extension ecosystem to boot.
What sort of extensions would one use for a note taking app? What sort of notes to you take with it?
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What sort of extensions would one use for a note taking app? What sort of notes to you take with it?
I use mermaid and git extensions personally.
Lots of AI bros add LLMs to it but that's not my cup of tea
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I like the Markdown-based approach but Sync is way to expensive for my use-case..
You could use regular Syncthing for any device other than iOS. And for iOS you could use Sushitrain/Synctrain: https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain
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What sort of extensions would one use for a note taking app? What sort of notes to you take with it?
There's lots of types, think even stuff like d&d monster blocks, or custom date ones
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Read whole page. Not sure what Obsidian even is?
It's like trillium, but not open source
Here is an enthusiastic person talking about the state of the art of one year ago for 20 minute.
https://youtu.be/XRpHIa-2XCE -
Can you selfhost a sync server? Be completely independent of them?
technically yes. they just recently made the sync server open source - https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook-sync-server - but their documentation for it is still pending.
I've been following their progress for a while and can say that they appear to be following through on all their goals. and are very responsive to issues on GitHub. but don't take my word for it, check out their roadmap to see when they release the self hosting documentation- https://notesnook.com/roadmap/
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Oh I don't disagree, it is worth it. I ended up paying for it myself before I switched to Joplin. I just went down a rabbit hole of realizing I technically could self host the backend and stubbornly tried to make it work well beyond what was good sense at the time.
Did you make it work? I kind of remember trying but failing. The promise of self host is a soothing edge against feature backsliding (enshittification) so it's a great selling point. But not if you try and it's not actually practical (looking at you signal)
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Holy shit this is huge. I can finally use obsidian at work! I was avoiding it due to the license and using Logseq. Which, to be fair, did admirably. But it's much more and Outliner or journaling system than a knowledge base I feel.
Me too! I've been having a blast with it today. It's so much more fluid and intuitive. I already have Syncthing set up everywhere (for Logseq) so there's been almost no friction at all.
I'm unreasonably happy about this
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This post was how I learned about Obsidian.
For those of you that love it, how do you use it daily?
Weekly.
As a personal knowledgebase and todo list. -
I use Obsidian as a tool to help my shitty memory.
I want to have one single place where I can go search for a thing I know I saw somewhere but can't remember where or what it was exactly
"Did I watch movie X" -> Obsidian -> Watchlist -> Movies and there it'll be.
Same for tv-series, anime, books, games. Yes there are services that do it like Trakt, Imdb, Letterboxd, TVMaze and god knows how many for games. They all get enshittified eventually requiring you to pay for basic functionality (looking at you trakt...)
I'm building a tool for getting my data out from all those services into Obsidian markdown format, maybe It'll get finished some day
(IMDB and Goodreads work, but you need to do a manual csv export)"How did I install that finicky piece of software last time" -> Obsidian, I wrote something down because I knew I couldn't remember it. Then I'll improve the guide + refresh with new data.
Now I have a pretty good step-by step guide on how to set up a computer, no matter the OS, just how I like it - all in Obsidian. Mostly just commands I copy-paste and some manual steps that I can't be arsed to automate.
Same with my daily notes, I just write down what I did maybe with some tags so I can find them when I start wondering when did I visit X or put up the curtains in the bedroom.
For the movies I use Jellyfin/Trakt and for what I still want I use the *arrs.
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It is a really good app. But was a pain in the ass to keep the archive in sync using multiple different platforms without paying for their sync addon in my experience. You can roll your own sync with stuff like Syncthing, cloud storage, etc. But the archive had a bad habit of seemingly finding ways to get out of sync.
I've had zero problems with Dropbox.
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This post was how I learned about Obsidian.
For those of you that love it, how do you use it daily?
It's my trapper keeper. I feed everything into it. I've got vaults within vaults.
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Itβs $4 a month for 1GB of storage, not insane
I mean, that is an absolutely batshit insane price for storage. Backblaze is $6 per month for 1TB, and Hetzner is 4β¬ per month for 1TB, so literally 1000x cheaper, but you are also paying for development and the sync software.
I almost have my company going on putting our QMS wiki on obsidian because excalidraw with clickable objects works so nicely and it can visualize our process, but for some reason commercial was showing up as 50 USD per month per user, so they couldn't justify getting licenses but now it is showing up as 50 USD per year which is way way way more reasonable.
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Yeah but you learn it and itβs a far more organized approach
It doesn't matter if it's a "far more organised approach", logseq simply doesn't fit many types of workflows for note taking.
logseq is a zettelkasten program; Obsidian is a text editor
