Obsidian 1.5 Desktop (Public)

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Logseq

#Knowledge Management #Note Taking #Knowledge Base 280 social mentions

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Anytype.io

Another Obsidian alternative which I use every day is Anytype[1]. It's fully open source however under their own license which has some interesting terms to discourage commercial adoption. They seem to be very focused on individual use. The user experience is similar to Notion with some subtle differences, but overall very positive. The biggest plus for me was offline p2p sync and a really solid mobile app. [1] https://anytype.io/.

#Task Management #Personal Notes #Bookmarks 53 social mentions

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Syncthing

I think sync is a non-feature, as you can just ride on your existing solution. For example, I use syncthing [1] with Obsidian to sync files off-cloud. https://syncthing.net/.

#Cloud Storage #File Sharing #File Sharing And Backup 826 social mentions

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Vim Adventures

That’s a good question. The built in tutorial is actually really good, you can launch it with “vimtutor” on the command line. It doesn’t give you everything, but its instructions and text to try things out on in the editor itself, which I find a good way to learn. It isn’t particularly programming focused either. For getting used to the motions especially https://vim-adventures.com can be a fun way, in its game format. For getting started I’d say don’t worry about plugins much, but get <a href="https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible">https://github.com/tpope/vim-sensible</a> at least so the defaults meant for vi don’t get in the way. The only other thing you might want is a format syntax if your preferred note syntax isn’t highlighted well by default or something. Polyglot can be good to stave that off but really I’d say learn on a really lean config, and get used to using :help or similar. It’s the best way to learn the parts that work everywhere.

#Coding Games #Online Learning #Online Education 120 social mentions

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Foam

No mention of Foam? https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ Fine, I uhh, I'll speak for it. Foam is to VSCode, what Org (and Org-Roam) are to Emacs. As a former org-roam user, I ended up preferring it because my end goal was to convert my notes to HTML and blog posts, and org is poor at that as HTML is not valid org code whereas it is in Markdown. There's just a whole host of markdown-it plugins [1] out there to add footnotes and all sorts of things to Markdown, and Foam also understands Jekyll frontmatter YAML, which is perfect for blog post tags/categories. [1]: https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=keywords:markdown-it-plugin And because it's just an extension to VSCode, it works with every other extension: https://foambubble.github.io/foam/user/getting-started/recommended-extensions This gives it similar power and flexibility to Org-Roam, as you can extend the model to improve the <i>editing</i> experience. So why don't I use Obsidian, Logseq, and others? Because they're dedicated apps, and now I have to bring various half-baked plugins into them to give me the power my editor already affords me. With notes, half your time is spent editing, so why wouldn't you want your editing to be as close as possible? Secondarily, nothing stops me from using everything altogether, since it's all Markdown, I <i>can</i> load up my note repo in Obsidian or Logseq and others, and continue editing in VSCode and Emacs!

#Note Taking #Knowledge Base #Knowledge Management 45 social mentions