Can I just say how awesome Obsidian is?

So a friend of mine recommended Obsidian ages ago and I looked at it but thought I was happy using Joplin (another text-based note tool) which I still think is a great app. Took a brief look at it and thought it was just too complicated…

Then recently, I went down a youtube rabbit hole watching videos of how people use Obsidian… OMG 🤯

Now I have 2x Vaults, one for work and one personal. Dataview, templater, quickadd, periodic notes have just changed everything. Now I have documents for each person at work with their basic info and then when I make a meeting, I can just tag them which then updates a dataview table that shows what meetings I’ve been in with them.

Tasks allows me to just create a bunch of todos in random notes and then I can create a table to show all my undone tasks.

I mean, why did I wait so long? I’ve been using it for about 10 days now and it’s been such a game changer. Sorry Joplin.

squidzorz,

I’d like to use it, but $8 $10 a month to sync my notes across multiple devices is lol

Radicalized,

You do not need to pay anything at all to sync obsidian notes. They’re just .txt files sitting in a folder on your computer - you can sync them any way you’d sync anything else on your pc. I have access to all my notes on every single device I own and I pay $0.

dowath,
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ONE OF US. ONE OF US.
My main concern now though is that there's a single point of failure for my mental well being. I'm reaally gonna need to keep backups because it's not just my 'second brain' I think most of my actual brain is in there at this point.

HidingCat,

I just installed it, and obviously it looks pretty basic at the start. Any particularly useful tutorials that showcase how powerful it is? I don't need a beginner's step-by-step (have used Notion before), I just need the eureka moment(s).

platysalty,

Explore the plugins. My world changed when I set up templates using Templater.

Have a look through the catalogue and see what you can do

LegendofDragoon,
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I'm very confused. I thought this was about the video game company, but now I see this is done kind of productivity software?

flynnguy,

Yeah, the MD at the end stands for Markdown which is the format it uses to store it’s notes.

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