I’m fine with Obsidian on desktop and I love that they have a fully-featured app, but the experience on mobile and iPad with the obsidian app is not the best UI experience. I also find it to be a bit buggy at times.
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IA Writer works very nicely with Obsidian. The styling looks different, YAML is visible, and anything outside markdown won't be rendered, but it reads and writes perfectly (although I rarely find a need for it anymore). The iPad app has come a long way but yeah, it's not perfect yet.
That’s one app I really wanted to try to use but they don’t yet have a trial or monthly subscription option for iOS (supposed to release one). I didn’t want to pay $50 for it just yet.
@nightscout@laroquephoto At $50, the mobile version of iA Writer has become way overpriced, especially if you’re only going to use it on an iPhone. Imo 1Writer is pretty much equally good (I own both) and last I looked it only costs $5. Fwiw, you can also sign into Dropbox with it, which you can’t do with iA Writer.
Relatable. One of my fears is that this content that I’m devoting a lot of time towards writing and curating will never be helpful to me or read by me a second time.
I use it to organize my notes for the Dungeons and Dragons game I’m playing in. It’s fabulous for linking NPCs and locations with my notes for each session.
This is a wonderful idea. I don’t play DnD personally, but this example gives me some ideas. Essentially what you’ve done is organize creative works by breaking them down into bite sized interconnected pieces.
This is how I’ve been thinking of it too. If an equivalent open-source solution comes out, it’ll be really easy to switch to, but right now Obsidian is just unbeatable.
For me, knowing that it’s basically a text editor that has neat features, I’m not super concerned. If they ever shut down Obsidian, I’ll switch to LogSeq or one of the Emacs modes that does the same thing, maybe I’ll have to run a converter over the files, but that’s not a huge deal for me
I wouldn’t say I have any “main thing”, it’s split fairly evenly between archiving information (recipes, articles, etc.) to have everything in one place, writing down random things to avoid forgetting them, and making kanban boards for my hobby programming projects.
I got this mostly working, but it was not easy. Not only does Obsidian have a few peculiarities that make it less compatible with standard Markdown, but Word also does a few funny things.
Removed extra linebreaks added between bulleted lists to make them more compact.
Removed lines with only a single character in them. Usually an invisible character like nbsp, which made Pandoc’s linter not remove them automatically.
Removes linebreaks enclosed in Strong tags. This is an artifact from Word where a line is bolded but has no content: technically the line break is bolded.
I then ran the resulting file through a RegExp replacement to change the superscript carats into HTML sup tags.
Even after all this, I still have to go through with an Obsidian plugin to convert the standard Markdown links and embeds into [[Wikilink]] style, since Obsidian will only do one or the other throughout your whole vault.
I use the Supercharged Links Obsidian Plugin (alongside Style Settings Obsidian Plugin to break down my links into multiple different types with symbology for each so that at a glance I know what type of note I’m looking at
Literature note: 📔
Book: 📚
People: 🧑
Permanent note: 🗒️
Low-quality note: Link turns red
Medium-quality note: Link turns an orange
So e.g. A link to a book will look like 📚Building A Second Brain
I use git to synchronise and versionise my notes across my desktop pc and laptop. If I need access to the notes away from those two I simply access my git repository I self-hosted via gitea. Sure it has not the linking features of obsidian, but I still can read and edit the markdown files :)
My use case by the way is world building for a literature project and running Pathfinder Role-playing games.
I do the same thing, using a home-grown Git sync solution to keep my vault synced between my desktop, laptop, and Android phone. Free, and easy to setup on the computers, needed some additional SW on the Android side to get the sync to work.
I have a work environment, which has a symlink to my private notes. Then I use it for some other stuff too with separate, tinier vaults, but I found that unless it’s accessible in my primary vault, it will be ignored and forgotten.
But it does get annoying when is search I find both Linux notes, interview notes, and D&D notes.
For some types of metadata, I’ve used dataview to make a list of notes missing the key fields I want, then I can go back from time to time when I’m bored, and add the new data.
I also use this to summarize things like meeting notes after a day or so to digest what I heard.
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