Any Obsidian users here?

3 years ago by MCU_H8ER to c/comradeship

I recently got into smart notes and Obsidian. I think they can be a great way to organize your thinking and research. Any other users here?

bloubz 13 points 3 years ago

I don't like that it's not open source though

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MCU_H8ER 3 points 3 years ago

It's not? I thought it was. Regardless, I still like that you can just save your files in MD in case anything ever happens to it. I like the concept of future proofing your work.

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relay 3 points 3 years ago

If you look at their page they have parts that are gpl3, but the whole project as a whole is not open source.

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chay 6 points 3 years ago

There was a huge thread about it here: https://forum.obsidian.md/...

TLDR: devs won't make it FOSS.

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Four_lights77 7 points 3 years ago

Obsidian is great. Check out Nicole van der hoeven on YouTube for some great info on usage.

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MCU_H8ER 3 points 3 years ago

I watch her, FromSergio, and Nick Milo. I think most of them have sample test vaults you can download that are very helpful as well.

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brasileiro 4 points 3 years ago

Yes! I wrote my research with Zotero and Obsidian. It's easy to use when managing notes between these two programs, and the final product it's a paper previously configured exported to .docx

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Jusog 4 points 3 years ago

I'm using AnyType for stuff like that, at least if I understand ur post correctly. Is Obsidian similar to Notion? Anytype is in early development but I found it some months ago as an 'Open Source alternative to Notion'. I'm pretty satisfied actually. It's synced between my laptop and phone.

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MCU_H8ER 3 points 3 years ago

Yup. Obsidian serves the same purpose as Notion.

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nephs 4 points 3 years ago

I'm moving from obsidian to logseq for FOSS reasons and I found that logseq is kind of exactly how I think and how I always made notes.

Markdown is not as pretty, but I'm loving it!

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MCU_H8ER 1 point 3 years ago

Nice. How is it different than Obsidian?

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nephs 2 points 3 years ago

It is FOSS, to begin with.

And it is built around back links, making them more useful, in my opinion.

Instead of linking in a wiki style, you link in a tag style, to collect blocks together. Then, when visiting the linked page all of them are together and editable.

They suggest you write everything in the daily notes, then link from them. Except for the end result Markdown, it aligns with how I think.

Theres also checklist automation, and tagging days in the future for reminders.

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Cyberflunk 3 points 3 years ago

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MCU_H8ER 3 points 3 years ago

It seems to have near universal praise.

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pqjke 3 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I've migrated from Joplin. Pretty nice tool

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IngrownMink4 3 points 3 years ago

I'm using Logseq instead.

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hoodlem 2 points 3 years ago

I use Evernote out of inertia. What do you like most about Obsidian?

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MCU_H8ER 2 points 3 years ago

It has a great community and I really like the approach of the developers. It's designed to be a bottom up approach, as opposed to rigid hierarchy. It's also very customizable. You can use it pretty much however you'd like.

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Tango 2 points 3 years ago

Obsidian is fantastic. I mainly use it for noveling and keeping track of things as a dungeon master. It seems like most people use it for PKM, if you're into that. The program is very versatile.

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azanra4 1 point 3 years ago

obsidian is cool. I used it a bit. imo, fewer dependencies are better. so if you're going for something as lightweight as obsidian, you may as well just maintain a folder of markdown files for your notes

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