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This post is practically devoid of content. Why do you care what other people spend their time on?
by Kinrany 4y ago
This post is practically devoid of content. Why do you care what other people spend their time on?
- IsItThough 4y agoAs someone who has spent hours watching some "creative" person painfully "transition" from Notion to Obsidian, I can only echo this pithy response.
- sbdncuvh 4y agoI tried to transition from years of loose txt files to obsidian. When I opened the folder the app showed me 1-2 files from years ago. Apparently it only supports .md files. I literally laughed out loud and deleted the app from my computer. You've got a damn knowledge map but handling txt files is beneath you? That app is doomed to obscurity.
- regularjack 4y agoThere's a plugin that adds support for txt files: https://github.com/deathau/txt-as-md-obsidian https://github.com/deathau/txt-as-md-obsidian
- TotempaaltJ 4y ago> That app is doomed to obscurity. Quite arrogant to assume that an app not supporting /your/ specific note-taking workflow means it's "doomed to obscurity". It's a popular app with plenty of users, a healthy plugin community, and a team of six building it. I think that pretty obviously proves you wrong. If you were actually interested in trying it out, you could've simply run a quick find command. find . -name "*.txt" -exec rename -v 's/\.txt$/\.md/i' {} \;
- sbdncuvh 4y agoSo simple you can fix the problem in one line but me pointing that out as bad design is arrogance. Gotcha.
- mpawelski 4y agoConverting all files from .txt extension to .md extension would be enough to start. This I what I did. The only annoying thing was that in my text files I often used indentation to group stuff and in markdown indented text is treated as code block.
- tobr 4y agoWhy do you care what other people care about?
- Kinrany 4y agoTheir posts end up on HN and make the signal-to-noise ratio worse.
- koheripbal 4y agoMoreover, it's just advocating a specific extreme to a broad set of real-world situations in "just do it" fashion. There's usually a balance between planning and execution. Note taking is no different. There's no simple always solution to "plan meticulously" vs "just do it". Every choice in life is a cost-benefit analysis. Personally, I spent a little time to setup orgmode. Works for me.
- ergocoder 4y agoIt's also tautological. Of course, we should use the note-taking approach that works for us. Who would agree with using a note-taking approach that does NOT work for you? One of the ways to figure out which note-taking approach works is to try the note-taking approaches from other people... It could be 18 multi-step note taking approach or it could be dead-simple. Unless you try, you won't know which one works for you.