Obsidian.md Reviews

1. MTRG15

   almost 2 years ago
   The kind of software that may change your life

   Perhaps you know someone who swears by Obsidian, it may seem like a cult of overly devoted people for how passionate they are, but it's not without reason

   I've been using Obsidian for over 3 years, at a point in my life when I felt I had to handle too much information and I felt like grasping water not being able to remember everything I wanted, language learning, programming, accounting, university, daily tasks. A friend recommended it to me next to Notion (of which he is a passionate cultist priest) and I reluctantly picked it and fell in love almost immediately.

   Obsidian seems very simple, like a notepad with folder interface, similar to Sublime Text, but the ability to link files together in a Wiki style allows you to organize ideas in any way you want, one file may lead to a dozen or more ideas that are related

   If you want to do something specific, Obsidian has a plethora of community created plugins that expand the functionality, in my case, I use obsidian to organize my classes both as a teacher and as a student, using local databases, calendars, dictionaries, slides, vector graphic drawings, excel-like tables, Anki connection, podcasts, and more

   🏁 Competitors: Notion, Evernote

   👍 Pros:    Awesome community|Custom plugins|Local hosting|Beautiful themes|Highly customizable|Cloud storage|Becomes more useful over time|Markdown support

   👎 Cons:    Seems complicated/complex at first|Takes time to set up your personal workspace|Overwhelming for first time user
2. Stan

   · Founder at SaaSHub · about 3 years ago
   My personal knowledge-base of choice

   I've been using Obsidian for more than a year. It's been great. I think it offer a great balance of control, flexibility and extensibility. What is more, you own your own data, that's been a must-have feature for me. I just can't imagine putting all my knowledge into something that I don't have control over.

   I think two of the most popular alternatives that people consider are Logseq and Roam Research. Although Logseq is a bit different, it's considered compatible with Obsidian. Supposedly, you can use them with a shared database (files. Both use simple text files for storage). I tried that once, a few months ago. It worked, yet it messed up a bit my Obsidian files ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

   🏁 Competitors: Logseq, Roam Research

PowerShell Reviews

Obsidian.md mentions (1489)

• Why obsidian wins the second brain war and notion just can’t keep up

  Obsidian Website Download, docs, community, and roadmap. - Source: dev.to / 5 days ago

• Using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to query Obsidian note taking

  You can find out about Obsidian on their site It's free to use and open source. - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago

• Why You Should Boycott VS Code

  I don't argue that companies are obligated to distributing their products as open source. Not at all. One of my favourite pieces of software, Obsidian is closed source, and I have no objection to that. They as a company need to make a profit, and they are free to chose their own strategy.5. - Source: dev.to / 9 days ago

• Why I switched from obsidian: A real developer’s story and what I’m using now

  Obsidian Official Website Still an incredible tool for the right type of workflow. - Source: dev.to / 14 days ago

• Show HN: An AI agent in Obsidian that can (sort of) write plugins

  This is a plugin for Obsidian [1] that can extend Obsidian with custom functionality. There's a demo video in the readme. Why? Obsidian is a note taking app with tons of extensions. Even so, there must be hyper-niche use cases that aren't being served by any existing extension. LLMs are decent at coding though, so maybe an LLM can write custom functionality on demand. That's the experiment, to see if you can... - Source: Hacker News / 20 days ago

PowerShell mentions (23)

• FeiFlow - An Opinioned Git Branching And Release Management Strategy

  Addressing these concerns requires safeguards and automation. Our "in-house" solution is based on powershell for git scripting and logic and ADO tools set for git repo hosting, tracking, planning, linking, building, execution, and querying purposes. - Source: dev.to / about 1 year ago

• If you have no experience, learn Powershell (or Python)

  The official PowerShell documentation (specifically, the PowerShell 101 and About topics) is a great place to start. Source: over 1 year ago

• Best resource to learn PowerShell?

  Really sorry about that this was the link I embedded https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Feeling pretty down/demoralized. Any suggestions on easy wins for my team?

  - Pick something unique to your team that’s an irritant and find a way to automate it. We used Powershell to do this ourselves, but I know people also use BASH. Source: about 2 years ago

• Unexpected behaviour when processing large file with StreamReader

  Uh, what? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/ is not official to you? Source: over 2 years ago