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This is an incredible time for knowledge management tools. Just a couple of years ago I was pulling my hair out trying to get a local wiki to feel like a native
by kepano 5y ago
This is an incredible time for knowledge management tools. Just a couple of years ago I was pulling my hair out trying to get a local wiki to feel like a native app, and now we have a dozen great options to choose from.
I started using Obsidian when it came out last year, and it instantly clicked for me. I immediately migrated 20 years of notes to it.
What differentiates Obsidian from all of the other tools in this area, is that they have made extensibility a top priority. The sheer breadth of plugins, themes, and other community-driven tools that have been generated in 18 months is spectacular. It makes it easy to recommend Obsidian because you can shape it into whatever you want.
There are a handful of plugins like Dataview, QuickAdd, Kanban and Periodic Notes that make Obsidian an incredibly powerful environment for thought.
I made a theme for Obsidian called Minimal that attempts to make the app feel more native, especially on Mac:
https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal
...and published a couple of my own plugins and a Web Clipper bookmarklet: https://gist.github.com/kepano/90c05f162c37cf730abb8ff027987ca3 https://gist.github.com/kepano/90c05f162c37cf730abb8ff027987...
The Obsidian community is just so fun, friendly, and collaborative, that you can't help but get involved and work on making the ecosystem better.
- rektide 5y agothe perspective that software is good because it's soft- as in malleable- is nice to hear. i too feel like the more open-potential endlessly extensible form of computing is what's interesting & compelling. it's ehy computing appealed to me & still is. contrasting to computing as mechanization, big systems, & mass market software, where focus is on control & usually core, well planned user flows. this is boring rigidware. yet it's share of computing has radically risen. good to hear of syccessful flexible software in the world.
- smusamashah 5y agoI made a Windows 98/2000 theme for Obsidian which feels faster because animations are disabled and have more Thanks to Electron that I could do that. It was mentioned in the previous thread by its creator that because it's Electron you could make a css to make it look like anything you want.
- runjake 5y agoCan concur, his Minimal theme is really awesome and looks Mac-native. His theme played a huge part in getting me to make the jump from Bear Notes to Obsidian as I try to move away from Mac-specific apps to cross-platform (macOS and Linux) options.
- desireco42 5y agoHey, your Minimal theme, that I just installed, pretty much solves most of the issues I had with Obsidian. Even without that it is a great tool.
- divan 5y agoWow, thanks for sharing these. Didn't even know Obsidian has plugins/themes community before your comment :) PS. WebClipper is super helpful!
- sureglymop 5y agoObsidian is great but I still prefer VSCode for creating these types of interconnected markdown notes on desktop. Mainly because of the sheer amount of extensions available for VS Code. For example, I can write Jupyter notebooks in markdown files and let them be part of my notes but also open them as notebooks and execute code right in VS Code. I do love Obsidian mobile though, undefeated on mobile!
- dragonelite 5y agoOoh your the created of the Minimal theme, I really like the theme. Started using obsidian at the end of last month. Its definitely a new way for taking notes for me personally.
- Bayart 5y agoI just saved your post as Markdown, hahaha.
- vladsanchez 5y agoLOL, good one!