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How does this beat my markdown + vim + git stack? Granted I don't have Zettelkasten or fancy referencing features with this but I can always do a simple grep.
by ducktective 4y ago
How does this beat my markdown + vim + git stack? Granted I don't have Zettelkasten or fancy referencing features with this but I can always do a simple grep.
- fastball 4y agoThis feels a little like the classic HN Dropbox comment. Presumably it beats your stack because it's all bundled together in a convenient package.
- tomcatfish 4y agoYes, Obsidian functions as a personal Wiki, which makes the above look sorta like "Why would I use Wikipedia instead of a 2.7 Gb directory of text files indexed by Bing?", which makes the value add more obvious, I think. (In case it isn't: links, rendering, and stuff like the graph that gets constructed as you link are _very_ helpful to my workflow)
- pointlessone 4y agoObsidian, for example, has a built-in renderer and a whole lot of plugins that can extent it. For instance, dataview plugin can query other notes and render result in place. So for example, you have a few notes with a tag "book-review". And in them you use YAML preamble to track rating you gave the book. Dataview can render you a list of books you reviewed and their ratings (even in star form), individual rows linking to the specific notes. Another example, built-in TeX rendering support, which makes it much easier to read math formulas. Likewise, built-in Mermaid for diagrams.
- vorpalhex 4y agoA simple grep isn't always enough. Backlinks, built in dataviews, attachments, tagging and so on are useful features for heavier use cases. You may not need them - which is no less valid - but many of us do.