Just a reminder in all the holiday bustle, you can lock in 5x as much storage for the same yearly price if you subscribe to #Obsidian Sync before January 1. (Current Sync users get the upgrade automatically.) https://obsidian.md/blog/new-sync-plans/
FYI, I don’t work for Obsidian. I’m just a satisfied user.
We may not work for#Obsidian, but (hand on heart) Obsidian surely does work for us.
Plain text (gestures with one hand) is my metaphorical fountain pen, and Obsidian (gestures with the other hand) makes my favourite interchangeable nibs and inks.
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I have a strange issue with @obsidianmd. When I pin a note #obsidian with hang. When I reopen it, loading workspace will hang. I have to delete workspace.json to get it to open again or resync my vault. Anyone have any ideas what is going on?
Nick Milo’s Ideaverse and TfTHacker’s Canvas Candy are a problem. They move too far from the text first focus of Obsidian. I admire these producers for other things, but these are not a direction I can support. I see them like all the pretty Instagram Bullet Journals, far from Rider’s origination but more directly income-generating.
@philoserf@nickmilo@TfTHacker I agree with what you’re saying for me—it’s very close to my own perspective and personal preferences—but disagree with universalizing it into blanket statement that covers everyone.
#Obsidian is probably the least opinionated software I’ve ever used. It’s almost infinitely customizable and extensible, and its devs seem uninterested in pushing a canon of orthodox usage. Everyone can pretty much do what they want with it, which is great.
@dhrystone@0xSim DUDES remember there are people that see us all having fun at this we-are-doing-whatever-we-want-and-don’t-need-no-guide party, but there are some peeps who don’t know where the door is. When I first came across #Obsidian I couldn’t even figure out how to make a note. Gave up for a year or so before tackling it again.
So yeah, I think basic guides, done well, can be a good thing. I may have a problem with the word ‘ultimate’, however.
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I have published my initial ideas for the PlainText Journaling Markup Language.
Inspired by Huang's never-ending, productivity journal .txt file and influenced by Tony Stubblebine's concept of "interstitial journaling," the PlainText Journaling Markup Language is designed to simplify the experience of plain text journaling.
The journal.py has some functionality. Most importantly: move all open tasks to bottom of journal.
@geffrey@obsidianmd Interesting! I use this Expanso shortcut to insert a bullet and the current time in italics for interstitial journaling in #Obsidian, though it should work in any #markdown app:
Print the Interstitial Journal current 24-hour time
@geffrey@obsidianmd I love #Espanso, but it doesn’t work on mobile, so on my iPhone I use Apple’s built-in version (General > Keyboard > Text Replacement), which isn’t as good (I don’t think it can insert the current date or time, for example).
I believe there’s an expander plugin for #Obsidian, but I haven’t tried it.
Iirc, Text Expander works on iOS, but you have to use their soft keyboard, and it's an absurdly expensive subscription.
How many times do you really need #pkm tools on mobile? For me, I don’t feel like I need it other than capturing ideas quick. That’s probably why mobile supports are usually inferior than desktop ones..
@joonhyeok_ahn I wish mobile got more love. There are plenty of times I use it for more that quick capture. My desktop does a lot of the heavy lifting, but I use mobile a bit for reference during the day. I keep non-urgent conversation topics for people on their notes in my #obsidian, so if I bump into them I can usually pull them up quickly and go over those. I use search and aliases heavily as well, so that's helpful for tip-of-the-tounge or when I can't think of a name of a concept/thought.
@bowreality@coderdotcam@joonhyeok_ahn@obsidianmd I use the #Obsidian mobile app heavily on my iPhone, too. Although I prefer to use my MacBook when possible, I can do most of the same things in the mobile app, especially if I have a Bluetooth keyboard with me.
Most of the work is done on the computer, but I use it on tablet and phone a lot too. The downside on mobile use is the startup time, but that might be the iCloud sync, don’t know
I’m anyway considering a feature request for a light weight quick note option that just opens #Obsidian and offers a vault picker and opens a template note like a daily note, just for adding a quick note without delays.
@obsidianmd I just noticed that there’s a new #Obsidian plugin called Remotely Secure. The dev bills it as a fork of and replacement for Remotely Save, which hasn’t been updated in two years.
Getting reasonably deep in the #Obsidian#DataView#JavaScript weeds. Very big “treating flat files as a database” vibes, because that's literally what's going on.
I /kinda/ dig it, since DataView means I’m just arranging inline fields in my prose documents as desired, vs being tightly constrained within a literal database or spreadsheet (or #Airtable). In the latter setup I would have to cram all the non-field Markdown content into a "notes" field or whatever.
@bitprophet@obsidianmd The #Dataview plugin dev is working on a replacement for it called Datacore, and the #Obsidian team is planning to build a Databases feature into the core app, so things are likely to stay interesting on that front.