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I do find note-taking to be a useful way to learn and remember things. Usually if I'm studying something seriously I'll make notes using pen and paper, and then
by wduquette 3y ago
I do find note-taking to be a useful way to learn and remember things. Usually if I'm studying something seriously I'll make notes using pen and paper, and then later consolidate them and synthesize them into an Obsidian vault.
But I admit that the Zettelkasten method has had marginal benefit for me, possibly because I'm not working that way all day every day; and simply copying and pasting articles from the web into your knowledge base isn't going to accomplish much of anything for anybody.
- toastal 3y agoIs there an open source option to Obsidian? This is the type of thing I wouldn’t want reading or tracking my inner thoughts. Preferably something that isn’t using a limited format like Markdown.
- datadrivenangel 3y agoObsidian stores everything in markdown files, which are just text, so you can use any software you want to read and edit them.
- freshchilled 3y agoThere's LogSeq, which is a bit of a different model, but is open source and has all the basic functionality that Obsidian has. I don't know what kind of formatting you're looking for, but most of the apps I'm familiar with are markdown or just plain text. I use Vimwiki in markdown for my notes, but it can also be exported to HTML, which I don't use often.
- toastal 3y agoIdeally something like reStructuredText or AsciiDoc, both of which have a much larger feature set for taking notes where longer form is needed. I don’t really like the idea of embracing an Obsidian-only fork either.