I wish the indent = code block behavior would get deprecated from the #markdown specs. Triple backtick fences for code blocks and single backticks for inline code seem to have those bases covered, and indents could be freed again for the purposes for which they’ve always been used in prose and verse. (Markdown sucks for #writing#poetry because of the indent prohibition.)
Programmers aren’t the only ones who use markdown.
I've never really been that impressed by them, and maybe I'm in the minority about that, but I also will make the effort to use the proper Unicode for many characters (e.g. … ℃ ㎜ π ‽ ½), so I can understand the impulse. Curly quotes and a few other characters happen to be in a range of Windows-1252 encoding that makes them inherently unreliable after coming in contact with Windows.
I'd argue that these encoding issues are not rare, because of this weakness. It doesn't take long to find examples.
@curlyquotefails@alxlg@edwiebe@obsidianmd Although I’ve seen it before, I haven’t run into that issue much (certainly it doesn’t affect me day-to-day). It seems like a technical problem to be solved rather than a reason to throw in the towel and use straight quotes where they’re not appropriate.
For anyone who cares about typography, straight quotes in prose are a nonstarter. They also create problems in anything that’s heading to a designer for layout.
I've switched my #task management system from #Todoist to #Obsidian and back several times over the past year.
And now I have a confession to make. I think I have chosen, and my choice is Todoist...
@msemochkin@obsidianmd ну я пока лучше задачника чем ticktick найти не смог, туда летят и привычки и таймер помидоро и задачи по работе и жизни и отложенные статьи и ссылки ... Похоже я опять строю комбайн 😂
@garry@scott@obsidianmd#Obsidian’s foundational plaintext-in-folders/files-before-apps/interoperability/future-proofing approach is key for me, along with the ability to shape it to my own needs and preferences.
I've been using #Obsidian for a year and a half now. I've done several complete refactorings of my vault, written a couple of plugins. In general, I consider myself a pretty advanced user.
But today, I discovered a new plugin, and it's #Kanban 🤦♂️. How could I not have looked at it more carefully before??
@msemochkin@obsidianmd Tbf, there are 1,151 plugins in the #Obsidian repo right now and counting. It’s getting harder to keep up.
When I first started, I often used the “most downloaded” sort to find plugins that a lot of others found useful. Now I occasionally sort for the “newest” just to see if anything fresh is worth checking out.
@EpiphanicSynchronicity@obsidianmd Yes, it's undeniable. I'm laughing at the fact that it's one of the most popular plugins and I'm so late getting to it.
#Zettlr 3.0 was released today. I’m looking forward to trying it as a general-purpose markdown editor to supplement #Obsidian, because you can use .md files anywhere in your system, not just in folders designated as vaults. https://github.com/Zettlr/Zettlr/releases/tag/v3.0.0
Although I’d very much like to see it happen, #iA Writer will probably never have live preview (@reichenstein personally dislikes it), but I’m still hoping for a toggle to make the markdown characters light gray so they don’t fight with the text.
If you know how to turn on live preview in #Drafts, please let me know. I don’t see it in the settings.
I view plump old school WYSIWYG as a step back. I dislike the show/hide wiggle. And I think that if you see md just as a more readable text format that needs to be hidden you misunderstand it.
I am the moderator of this group and started it on a whim during the Reddit exodus. I am no longer using Obsidian for reasons I don’t wish to get into and have nothing to do with Obsidian (it’s awesome).
Would you, or someone you nominate, like to be named as a moderator?
Anyone else using #obsidian for notes or documentation? I've been toying with it personally and tuning up some ideas for my next term starting this week. What plugins have you found useful as an IT professional?
I'm a solo #sysadmin with a fallback #msp. Agent facing documentation in my ITSM is a process (rightfully so) to edit and update, but is slow to search if I can't find it straight away.
@dapprvilln@alxlg@punko@Pantsu@obsidianmd#Obsidian and #Logseq are fundamentally different. Files and prose are first-class citizens in Obsidian; blocks and outlining are first-class citizens in Logseq. Both approaches have strengths and limitations. Some people use them both, but for different things.
I've created a new key memo in our Obsidian vault. It synthesises many existing notes and describes how our studied data centre site in Germany is related to production networks in Asia-Pacific. In fact, the network view helped me explore and theorize relations.
But it's a real danger that such a view indicates finished research or fixed notions. It's worth reflecting on the performativity of such a tool. Reminds me of Gephi issues. @sociology@sts
@aerique Dunno about calendar, but SMS Backup & Restore has been my go-to app to ensure that my contacts and texts get synced, as I change phones every four weeks (and Android oftentimes doesn't transfer everything over).
It outputs both contacts and texts locally and also supports automatic cloud sync of said files to Google Drive.
#Logseq has a 'demo graph', where you can open your local graph in the browser. Does anyone know if there's a way to do the same, or something similar, in #Obsidian?
I'd like to be able to open certain pages, in the browser, for quick access and or editing.
@toran You can add to @obsidian@obsidianmd using #FleetingNotes and store those notes within the app (also available as a browser extension or PWA). The notes are written directly into your vault and live in their own folder with front matter, but you cannot access non-FA notes that are already in the vault. I am not affiliated with Fleeting Notes, but I like their product a lot and it is a great way to add notes on the go or when you only have browser access and can't install Obsidian.
So all this time I had the tag pane disabled (!) and had totally missed the "list of all tags by frequency of use" list, which has prompted a certain amount of cleanup and tidying to at the minimum try to fix single-use tags. Tag Wrangler helps that effort.
Yes, I really think periodic review is important for getting the most out of a notes collection. Tag review is a great way to do this. Looking for ways to recategorize notes or merge tags under a hierarchy means reviewing.
A new blog post in my blog: I am sharing a #CSS snippet I wrote for #Obsidian, which makes the default Markdown display better for me by always showing the corresponding formatting symbols.