I think the best way to convince people to move is to use this sub for its intended purpose of discussing Obsidian MD and how to use it. Right now the top posts on this sub are about reddit and open source philosophy, so it’s not immediately clear to people migrating that this is a great community for discussing Obsidian’s utility.
A pretty big issue. I can’t really trust it to survive for long or that it won’t be ruined by bad decisions. Because of that I use org mode, but if Obsidian was FOSS I would switch.
I started using Obsidian about a month ago. So far I’ve been treating it like a personal wiki. It took me a while to start really figuring out what to create, but now some of my primary subjects are technical notes (programming), ancestry, health, academic notes, etc.
I mainly feel prompted to create notes based on learned information. I might take an article found online with really interesting information, then convert it into my own words and save that as a note. The more concise I can make the note, the better. It’s preferable to try and get to the main point of a subject in a few sentences or less. Doing it this way makes future me spend less time retrieving the information I need.
One shortcut that has helped me a lot is CTRL + O. It will open a promp to find a note, or create one if that doesn’t exist. It’s important to give your notes basic tags as well for what topics they pertain to do that you can make searching easier.
As for how much I use it, currently maybe a couple times a day, but I anticipate my usage growing as my note collection becomes larger.
When you capture what you’ve learned from articles, how do you keep the information accessible in the future? My concern is that the cardinality of note topics is so high it will be difficult to find myself in a situation where I recall a note when I need it… But maybe I just need to give it a shot myself to see if it works.
Minimal theme, without a doubt. It increases customization of the editor immensely, I can hide whatever I don’t need, focus mode is neat, and generally it feels not too far from vanilla obsidian experience
There is a loooog thread on the official forum on open source for Obsidian app: forum.obsidian.md/t/…/1515
IMO the best approach would be for them to make the promise, that they’ll open source the code if they become unprofitable or uninterested in further developing ObsidianMD and then leave. In that case, the community has a fully open source stack.
I am aware, that Obsidian is closed source, I try to keep the number of non-compliant uses of markdown minimal. While I use quite many plugins, I am aware, that the plugins being open source removes the risk a bit.
Your data, being in Markdown format, is portable to anything that can handle the format so should Obsidian change its policies or make the app itself paid you’re not SOL. But you will lose the functionality that Obsidian and its plugins provide, which could make that data less valuable to you in the short term. Nothing’s perfect.
@DmMacniel I use it to sort out my workload, I work on Video Editing so that get's organised inside of it, I help with a local organisation so that is through it (or at least my notes are) as well as data from things that I watch and stuff so that I can write notes.
Now that I'm using Folders to sort it out such as my main;
Daily (Daily Notes)
People (Notes about People)
Resources (Different Links, Quotes, Shows, ext.)
Templates (Templates)
Topics (For my main topics I work on writing such as Fediverse & my company)
These really help and I'm glad I have found a system that seems to work for me at the moment and because it's organised I should be able to adapt it in the future for my needs.
I paid for the audiobook and listened to it a few times through (it’s short and dense). Like all systems, I don’t follow it religiously, but it’s a useful base.
One that serves as a “miscellaneous personal stuff” vault that helps me remember stuff, but that nobody but me would find useful unless you were stalking me or were trying to buy a gift for me. It has a page dedicated to stuff I remembered and spent an hour+ trying to find again, so that I can find it more easily in the future; a page for rating stuff I bought at the grocery store so I remember which ones I liked and which I didn’t; a page with the locations of this or that important document like my taxes; a page with the knitting patterns I’m working on and where I last left off; a page with the exact hex codes for my favorite color… stuff like that.
One for my creative projects: Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, notes for two games I want to make but may or may not actually bother to get off the ground…
this is just one of many things but i like to write down game notes while i’m playing, like what i intend to do next and things i need to remember for future reference. very handy if you’re like me and juggle between games in waves, so you can always see where you left off mentally
@FIST_FILLET@SamXavia I just started doing this with a new Skyrim playthrough and it's more fun than I expected. I make a new note each time I play and just keep a bulleted journal of quests/important events/decisions made
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