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I used org and org-roam for a while before (just recently) moving my notes over to Obsidian. I hope to move back over to org one day (at the most rudimentary I
by SirensOfTitan 5y ago
I used org and org-roam for a while before (just recently) moving my notes over to Obsidian. I hope to move back over to org one day (at the most rudimentary I find org syntax vastly superior to markdown), and projects like this definitely help.
I've been trying to pinpoint why I felt friction with the org approach, and I would narrow down to a couple categories:
1. Because the notes sat inside a larger emacs context, I spent too little time actually reading my notes. It's nice just to have Obsidian open all the time as a singularly focused tool.
2. I spent a lot of my time tinkering with my config, never feeling totally happy with it, than just using the tool. I'd call this the big emacs problem, though moving to Doom from my own vanilla config last year really helped with this.
3. I run emacs-mac nowadays on an M1 machine, which feels like the fastest emacs experience I've ever had (much faster than on other machines with native-comp enabled), but I still experience lock ups, freezes, stutters, and the like that not only make me sort of sour on notes in emacs, but have started making me think about trying other editors.
4. Obviously the mobile experience. I really like what's going on here, and with org-roam support I think this would be solved for me. I want my notes to look and feel nice, and having a high quality mobile app that particularly supports my mobile wiki would rock. I was never very happy with BeOrg.
If anyone here has had similar issues as I have but have found themselves happy with some combination of emacs, plainorg, flat habits, logseq, .. please let me know your setup! I have felt a little wary moving to a non-free system.