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[–] [S] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

Obsidian. Great notes app with a ton of features and is free. Open source too, I think, but could be wrong on that. I usually am. But it's all in markdown baby! I use it for my dnd world and notes.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Unless they've open-sourced it in the last year or so, Obsidian isn't open source. That being said, it does have big vibes of open source. Like, there's more to open source than simply the source code being available — it's also about the general ethos of openness. When I was using Obsidian, I felt reassured that my notes were my own, and they would still function mostly the same if Obsidian went under. It's a big part of why I switched to it from Notion

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Obsidian is an org-mode/org-roam wannabe

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Yeah, but getting into org-mode low key feels like the tinkering equivalent of starting a heroin habit. I say this as someone who basically lives in org-mode nowadays. I am the weird kind of person who relishes the learning curve, and for me, getting to tinker with my tools helps keep me motivated to actually use my note taking systems. I think that people like me are outliers though.

    That is to say that I don't think "wannabe" is the right word, because Obsidian isn't trying to be org-mode. I'd maybe call it "org-mode lite", because of how it takes some of those features and repackages them to be more accessible to a wider audience. I don't think that's a bad thing though — indeed, Obsidian was my gateway drug to where I am now

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Obsidian is nearly perfect. My biggest gripe is the link format it uses, even when using Markdown style, doesn't use the full relative path to files, just the name of the file. So you can't click them in say, VS Codium and have them work.

    My perfect tool would be something like Obsidian but uses the GitHub Pages approach while not being tied to GitHub. (The GitHub Pages gem fails in a few ways if the repository doesn't have a GitHub remote.)

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    I just wish that obsidian would let me self host a server with their software.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    What do you mean by this, an obsidian web client that access a local store? They don't make that. That's not "their software". You could set up a vm to remote into, with obsidian installed/running.

    Synchronization can be achieved via many other mechanisms also.

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