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Neat, but fails in the same way Obsidian et al do: files are not a good abstraction for atoms of knowledge. What if knowledge isn't textual, or is only partiall

by npunt 6y ago

Neat, but fails in the same way Obsidian et al do: files are not a good abstraction for atoms of knowledge. What if knowledge isn't textual, or is only partially textual?

hu3 6y ago
I'd love to be able to paste an image and have it figure out the image markup and storage in the directory.
- O_H_E 6y ago
  what do you mean by "image markup"?
  - joshspankit 6y ago
    Also my question
    - coldtea 6y ago
      To paste the image in the text editor, and get an automatic Markdown markup linking to the image... ![](foo/bar/image.png)
- neurotrace 6y ago
  There's a plugin for that https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mushan.vscode-paste-image https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mushan.v...
spiffytech 6y ago
File-based knowledge systems also assume knowledge is neatly partitionable in relatively large chunks.
notadev 6y ago
Microsoft OneNote has pretty good OCR of documents and full-text search.
- nika1975 6y ago
  Unfortunately OCR is in my experience not as smooth as within Evernote or Google Keep. When I take a picture using the OneNote app on Android, OCR never works. You have to use the separate Office Lens App to upload an image and move it to the correct place in your note later. Also: I've got quite a few old PDF docs containing scans of contracts as images. Google or Evernote enablefull text search everywhere, OneNote cannot search for text in these PDFs files .
dsissitka 6y ago
Obsidian added Roam style block references a while ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=32&v=oqx2O0aXZjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=32&v=oqx2O0aXZjQ
y2bd 6y ago
Notion [0] and recently released Craft [1] are both good personal-wiki applications that support lots of content types directly (from images and videos, to even things like tables and kanban-style boards for Notion), and have good mobile solutions. Unfortunately, both are proprietary solutions that require paid subscriptions for most of their features and their own special syncing software. Craft also only runs on Apple devices at the moment (they say they're working on a web app). [0]: https://www.notion.so/product https://www.notion.so/product [1]: https://www.craft.do/ https://www.craft.do/
- eddm 6y ago
  For what is worth, Notion has a very generous free tier that makes it easy to try it out and see if it works for you. - t. Happy Notion user and subscriber.

by npunt 6y ago

Neat, but fails in the same way Obsidian et al do: files are not a good abstraction for atoms of knowledge. What if knowledge isn't textual, or is only partially textual?

hu3 6y ago

I'd love to be able to paste an image and have it figure out the image markup and storage in the directory.

O_H_E 6y ago
what do you mean by "image markup"?
- joshspankit 6y ago
  Also my question
  - coldtea 6y ago
    To paste the image in the text editor, and get an automatic Markdown markup linking to the image... ![](foo/bar/image.png)
neurotrace 6y ago
There's a plugin for that https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mushan.vscode-paste-image https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=mushan.v...

spiffytech 6y ago

File-based knowledge systems also assume knowledge is neatly partitionable in relatively large chunks.

notadev 6y ago

Microsoft OneNote has pretty good OCR of documents and full-text search.

nika1975 6y ago
Unfortunately OCR is in my experience not as smooth as within Evernote or Google Keep. When I take a picture using the OneNote app on Android, OCR never works. You have to use the separate Office Lens App to upload an image and move it to the correct place in your note later. Also: I've got quite a few old PDF docs containing scans of contracts as images. Google or Evernote enablefull text search everywhere, OneNote cannot search for text in these PDFs files .

dsissitka 6y ago

Obsidian added Roam style block references a while ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=32&v=oqx2O0aXZjQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=32&v=oqx2O0aXZjQ

y2bd 6y ago

Notion [0] and recently released Craft [1] are both good personal-wiki applications that support lots of content types directly (from images and videos, to even things like tables and kanban-style boards for Notion), and have good mobile solutions. Unfortunately, both are proprietary solutions that require paid subscriptions for most of their features and their own special syncing software. Craft also only runs on Apple devices at the moment (they say they're working on a web app). [0]: https://www.notion.so/product https://www.notion.so/product [1]: https://www.craft.do/ https://www.craft.do/

eddm 6y ago
For what is worth, Notion has a very generous free tier that makes it easy to try it out and see if it works for you. - t. Happy Notion user and subscriber.