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.
Check out the latest Obsidian plugins and game-changing features they bring to your workflow! 🚀 From enhanced organization to seamless connectivity, these additions are a game-changer for #Obsidian users. Check out my detailed review of the latest Obsidian plugins! https://medium.com/technology-hits/obsidian-plugins-review-38-156fa84adfec
@geffrey@obsidian@obsidianmd Try disabling your plugins. And also, try going into airplane mode temporarily. You might have something operating in the background of Obsidian which is taking CPU time away from it. If you are jailbroken you might like to install and then check CocoaTop to see if anything’s going on.
You can gift #Obsidian Credit to friends and family, by going to your account page — the amount you send can be used to pay for any license or service.
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.
My biggest learning moment with #obsidian was that I should definitely not listen to online guides or people that have used it for a long time and that 'suggest' you how to use it.
Things like: atomic notes, making sure to link stuff, not too much in one note
And that almost turned me away from it. I now use Obsidian however I feel like in the moment. Some notes are long, blog post like, others are just quick notes, there's a todo list in there. It's all a big tangle, because that's just how I am. Trying to fit into other's people experiences has never worked for me. It didn't work here either.
@Hemera@obsidianmd The best thing about #Obsidian is that you can adapt it to meet your own needs and preferences. It’s the first app I’ve found that I can set up to work almost exactly the way I want it to work.
I‘ve borrowed ideas from iA Writer (including the outstanding Quattro font) in customizing it, but Obsidian’s philosophy is precisely the opposite of iA Writer’s, which is to sell a nearly immutable app tailored to meet the personal preferences of its designer, not necessarily yours.
Are there any #PlainText or #Markdown apps that can list the full names of files, on multiple lines, on a narrow screen? Landscape orientation helps, but it is not the solution I’m looking for.
#Obsidian Is the only one I’ve found so far that can do this.
All I want is to be able to browse the full text of long file names, in a list, in an app that doesn’t take 5 minutes to start up (I’m using iCloud for syncing Obsidian).
@ellane@obsidianmd That’s yet another Obsidian feature that makes it hard to use anything else once you’re used to it. Being able to read the whole file name seems so obviously better that it’s mind-boggling that it isn’t the standard way of doing things in all apps that manage files.
Anyone want to write me some #CSS to make the traditional writer's reminder of missing information, TK, show up prominently in #Obsidian wherever it occurs within a long text?
I'm thinking sans serif bold small caps, nicely letter spaced, maybe in light orange. Like Medium does it. Doesn't have to be offset to the side, just a nice visual blip to catch one's attention in the flow of the text.
@ellane@obsidianmd I’ve looked at it for 30 minutes but no luck. Working with Obsidian's Codemirror 6 is harder than I thought! I hoped to fix it with some neat Typescript and Regex, but that didn’t work.
I’ll see if I can do something helpful using only CSS.
As someone who switched between Windows and iOS mobile I want to use #obsidian but have no clue where to start or how to setup so the sync works both ways. Anyone have a good starter guide for it or tips? @viticci your the obsidian guru any tips?
@ko@EpiphanicSynchronicity@viticci@obsidianmd awesome to hear. Going to play with using it strictly on iOS for a bit to see if I stick with note taking and sharing things into it and linking properly to learn a workflow and then set up the sync. Doesn’t appear to be expensive for what I would need.
Where should I store my vault on my #Mac? I feel so lost! For years × ∞ I've put everything in Dropbox or iCloud, but that, I hear, is a recipe for sync troubles.
looks at computer as if for the first time, confused expression on previously confident face *
Why is my Documents folder greyed out? Where am I? Who am I ?? Help me, obi-@obsidianmd, you're my only hope!
@ellane@obsidianmd Oh this confirms then. Hmm I need to research more. Not working always as expected doesn't give us confidence, right?
The suggestion that someone gave in your thread about syncthing... I read that mentioned somewhere else before too if I remember correctly. I think I will try this solution sometime, since it seemed well recommended.
@kurau@ellane@obsidianmd I use Syncthing successfully, syncing mac, pc and android phone. I run 2 vaults, sync everything to the pc and sync main vualt with mac and a separate small vault with the phone. You do get some workspace json or similar conflicts (this happens in any sync situation imo, I used to get it with Evernote notes quite often) but if you resolve those by selecting the one you want via date or time or device etc, it works very well.
I have been trying to write out why #Tana works for me when I have been an #obsidian user for three years, and I think I have hit upon identifying why - it has to do with the different sizes of the thoughts. A description of what Tana does for me, reflections on what this means for the theory of what we are trying to solve with #pkm and #PersonalThoughManagement especially then, and what it means for #toolsForThought design...
@spinningthoughts :ablobwave: I think your essay is great. I love using @tana_inc as well as @obsidianmd & @logseq . While #LogSeq is primary, I understand that I can get certain things done more efficiently in other apps. It's not as if I can store any files in Tana. I use Tana to help manage specific tasks/actions. It's great. I have recently started using it for certain notes. None of these apps can replace each other and the "all or nothing" approach some people have is confusing. @pkm