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You could do all this work, or you could just use https://obsidian.md/ https://obsidian.md/

iLemming 5y ago
But then, how would you insert a link (in a note) to a specific line in some codebase? In a different branch. Or a link to a specific email thread in a mailing list? How would you attach images to your notes and manage them in a git repo? How would you encrypt your notes? How do you insert current or tomorrow's date in a note? How do you find all the notes tagged with a date? ¹ Most importantly, what would you do when you accumulate several thousand notes, and suddenly Obsidian authors ask you to pay for it? Having my note taking system in Emacs has incredible benefits - I have google-translate, thesaurus, dictionary, spell-checker, Grammarly checker, etc., All right here, everything is accessible without focus and context switching. And, of course, I can change virtually any behavior of any part of the system. And I never have to worry that someday, someone would ask me to pay for "premium features". ----- ¹ I don't know, perhaps Obsidian has some of those features, and maybe they are even better and more intuitive than in Emacs, but I doubt it would ever be as versatile.
- lovecg 5y ago
  I’d love to learn more about your setup, especially how you attach images. Still tuning my own org mode config!
  - ungamedplayer 5y ago
    Not op. Use the misnamed org-download.
  - iLemming 5y ago
    Some functionality I mentioned is built-in, some is done via packages: - google-translate - mw-thesaurus - gucong/emacs-sdcv - emacs-grammarly/lsp-grammarly To make Org mode take care of versioning of attachments for you: https://orgmode.org/manual/Automatic-version_002dcontrol-with-Git.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Automatic-version_002dcontrol-wit...
- skuthus 5y ago
  obsidian has a whole number of these things - to what degree, I do not know, but it's definitely worth looking
  - iLemming 5y ago
    Obsidian is very nice - my kids use it. But for me personally, Org-mode offers far more than Markdown can ever possibly have. And Emacs, Org, and Org-Roam is an incredibly flexible system - one can tune it to almost a crazy degree and become immensely efficient with it.
- hklgny 5y ago
  Obsidian has all of this functionality. And underneath it all it’s just markdown files. If they go away or start charging you’re left with your notes just fine. I don’t have a dog in this or really care what other folks use - but just fyi for others reading.

But then, how would you insert a link (in a note) to a specific line in some codebase? In a different branch. Or a link to a specific email thread in a mailing list? How would you attach images to your notes and manage them in a git repo? How would you encrypt your notes? How do you insert current or tomorrow's date in a note? How do you find all the notes tagged with a date? ¹ Most importantly, what would you do when you accumulate several thousand notes, and suddenly Obsidian authors ask you to pay for it? Having my note taking system in Emacs has incredible benefits - I have google-translate, thesaurus, dictionary, spell-checker, Grammarly checker, etc., All right here, everything is accessible without focus and context switching. And, of course, I can change virtually any behavior of any part of the system. And I never have to worry that someday, someone would ask me to pay for "premium features". ----- ¹ I don't know, perhaps Obsidian has some of those features, and maybe they are even better and more intuitive than in Emacs, but I doubt it would ever be as versatile.

lovecg 5y ago
I’d love to learn more about your setup, especially how you attach images. Still tuning my own org mode config!
- ungamedplayer 5y ago
  Not op. Use the misnamed org-download.
- iLemming 5y ago
  Some functionality I mentioned is built-in, some is done via packages: - google-translate - mw-thesaurus - gucong/emacs-sdcv - emacs-grammarly/lsp-grammarly To make Org mode take care of versioning of attachments for you: https://orgmode.org/manual/Automatic-version_002dcontrol-with-Git.html https://orgmode.org/manual/Automatic-version_002dcontrol-wit...
skuthus 5y ago
obsidian has a whole number of these things - to what degree, I do not know, but it's definitely worth looking
- iLemming 5y ago
  Obsidian is very nice - my kids use it. But for me personally, Org-mode offers far more than Markdown can ever possibly have. And Emacs, Org, and Org-Roam is an incredibly flexible system - one can tune it to almost a crazy degree and become immensely efficient with it.
hklgny 5y ago
Obsidian has all of this functionality. And underneath it all it’s just markdown files. If they go away or start charging you’re left with your notes just fine. I don’t have a dog in this or really care what other folks use - but just fyi for others reading.