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Obsidian 1.4.10 Desktop (Public)
- daturkel 3y agoAny particular reason to highlight this release? 1.4 introduced Properties, which is cool, but this is just a minor release.
- markab21 3y agoYeah, slow news day.
- joshstrange 3y agoI imagine that will pick up somewhat in about 20 minutes, or rather new articles will start to hit over then next 2 hours (Apple event starts at 1pm ET)
- btown 3y agoTo this point, if you're releasing minor-version changelogs, expect them to be posted on sites like HN, and make sure you link at the top of the post to the announcement of the latest major release, for those who might have missed it! It's an easy marketing win!
- pvg 3y agoMinor releases (and plenty of not minor ones) are moderated away as mostly offtopic on HN since they turn into generic discussion of the project itself which is more often than not, a dupe. The saner thing is to just not post them/flag them.
- Nekobai 3y agoIn fact, 1.4.12 is already out: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.12/ https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.12/
- l2dy 3y agoPersonally I appreciate the fix for "Reveal in Finder" hanging a system app (Finder). I also wanted to see how people think of the Properties feature, which has not been discussed yet on HN.
- karlicoss 3y agoIt sparks a discussion around knowledge management, that's kinda nice :)
- sdfghswe 3y agoI've recently started using Obsidian for taking notes and am very much enjoying it. For me the main things that matter are - it works on both desktop (for taking longer notes from reading) and android (for short notes on quick thoughts / things to remember) - the underlying file format is just plain text - sync can be achieved with syncthing
- Nereuxofficial 3y agoYeah and the Excalidraw Extension is just incredibly good
- sdfghswe 3y agoAh, I haven't explored any extensions yet!
- steveylang 3y agoThat's like at least half the fun! But seriously, there is a great library of community plugins.
- stefanvdw1 3y agoAlso check out the Tasks plugin and the query language it comes with. Obsidian has become my one tool for so many things at this point!
- jjnoakes 3y agoI tried it on Android and within the first few minutes I hit the following annoyances: - Changing the title of a note and then backing out of the note does not save the title change; I had to switch focus to the body of the note before the title change would save - Backing out of a note exited the app instead of bringing me to the previous view - Backing out of a sub-setting view exited the settings instead of bringing me to the parent settings view, so even looking for a setting that might help the first two annoyances was also annoying I'm hoping to give it another go, and perhaps even suggest or improve the app when I have some time, but it was definitely an underwhelming first impression.
- runjake 3y agodang this should probably be dead. 1.4.12 (a bugfix release) was released today: https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.12/ https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.12/ No clue why this post is here.
- 2bitencryption 3y agoI use Obsidian daily and love it. However, I'm not very disciplined with it. I don't have a "process". It's just my scratchpad with daily notes that end up being disorganized and gibberish. Does anyone have a good process they follow with Obsidian? A good template, a good, disciplined strategy to stay organized? I'd love to hear it, please share :)
- runjake 3y ago1. Create notes. Use tags and descriptive titles. 2. Don't care about organization. 3. Install the Omnisearch plugin and it's dependencies. 4. Find stuff with Omnisearch.
- xcdzvyn 3y agoI've struggled a lot with this too. I still feel like others' advice seems to fly over my head, and sometimes different note taking systems have wildly contrasting ideas.
- romesc 3y agoI am approaching 3 years with Obsidian! What I have found works best is to basically forget about putting strong priors on the structure of your notes. Just let everything be flat - or at most, create one level of hierarchy for a specific project. When you have a new thought, use search. I have a command that pulls up the advanced search tool plugin and fuzzy searches my term. I then quickly scan (visually as cards) the notes I created already. If there is something related to my idea I open that note and continue that thread. If it's new, I create a new note. This can be improved even more by using tags liberally, but I find that just having a powerful search and taking the time to "check" before creating a new note works very well for my style of note taking!
- hotnfresh 3y agoMy “system” in Apple Notes is that I just make sure to include words I know I’m likely to use to search for something later. It’s like tagging, but less work. Search does the rest of the “organizing”
- runjake 3y agoAll, 1.4.12 is the current version, released today, with bugfixes for the new Properties features. https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.12/ https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.12/
- codemac 3y agoObsidian supporting properties is the beginning of it's attempt to replace org-mode for me. Something I do wish they did was take the plugins that are clearly ubiquitous, and just make them default. It's weird to think that Obsidian might be marching forward nicely, but the maintainer of the Tasks plugin decides to bail. Emacs has recently been much better about just including by default popular libraries/plugins.
- input_sh 3y agoFun fact: - The author of the popular Minimal theme is now the CEO. - The author of Kanban, Style Settings, and a couple more plugins has been hired. - The author of Advanced Tables, Breadcrumbs, and Leaflet plugins has been hired. Fingers crossed they also hire the Dataview developer, which is in my opinion by far the most powerful plugin available!
- thewataccount 3y agoI happy for them that they were hired! I will say though, from my experience (with other software) what usually happens is the original plugins/software get's abandoned or neglected so they can focus on the official implementation. And the official implementations rarely feature match everything from the original. So hopefully that doesn't happen
- mirpn 3y agoTangentially related, I recently discovered this (quite entertaining) video which accurately matches my views on the subject of notetaking apps. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRpHIa-2XCE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRpHIa-2XCE
- rcarr 3y agoI bloody love this program and use it everyday. I've been watching it since the early days, and the team behind it are incredible. It was a two person team back then and I can't believe how fast new features were flying in on a near weekly basis.
- mattkevan 3y agoI’ve just started using Obsidian and absolutely love it. I’ve tried many many note apps over the years and it’s by far the best. Today I found I could build an archive of meeting notes by recording and transcribing conversations with MacWhisper and then get a summary and actions via the integrated ChatGPT extension. So handy!
- acuveg 3y agoDoes anyone know of a way to use Obsidian in a multiple-user setup? I want to use it as a department level solution (5 or so users) to share all of our personal knowledge ;) I was even thinking of and searching for a check in/check out solution. Asking about Windows.
- kepano 3y agoThe Obsidian team uses a shared Sync vault[1] to collaborate on making Obsidian. Since Obsidian runs on local files you could use any shared file storage like Dropbox. If you want more granular version history, you can use Git, there's a nice plugin for it[2]. [1]: https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Share+remote+vaults https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Share+remote+vaults [2]: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git
- adrienthebo 3y agoObsidian Sync may provide a partial solution but it's mainly targeted at a single user synchronizing vaults between devices. There's also the Obsidian Git[1] plugin if you're working with developers that are familiar with Git, with all of the pros and cons you'd expect. Finally, there's obsidian-livesync[2] which in theory would provide some very powerful functionality; it seems very cool but given that doing such livesync is complex and easy to get wrong exercising a great deal of caution (frequent backups and care when rolling out for production uses) seems prudent. Keep in mind that Obsidian requires a license for business use[3]. They're a very small shop that's entirely funded by licensing/sync/publishing income and are making a pretty fantastic product and they deserve some cash to keep developing Obsidian. [1]: https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git https://github.com/denolehov/obsidian-git [2]: https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync [3]: https://obsidian.md/pricing https://obsidian.md/pricing
- jug 3y agoObsidian is really flexible for all sorts of things, through and through. I personally use it both for work and personal projects within the same folder since it's residing within a OneDrive folder on my personal Microsoft account that is selectively synced (i.e. just that folder) to my work computer as well, together with the rest from my work Microsoft account. Works great! Everything is there from meeting notes, to reminder lists, to quick scratchbooks, etc. and it's always up to date wherever I am for free.
- MassiveBonk51 3y agoI use Obsidian a decent amount daily but I'm confused by what properties are. Are they like tags?
- kepano 3y agoProperties are a UI for YAML frontmatter, with nice autocomplete and search syntax. Allows you to add structured metadata to your notes, e.g. dates, numbers, text, checkboxes, as well as links to other notes. It's compatible with other tools that use frontmatter, such as SSGs (Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy, Astro, etc). https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Properties https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Properties
- input_sh 3y agoIn programming terms they're variables you add to the top of a note. Or if you ever used a static site generator, they're the same as YAML metadata. In fact, they are YAML metadata with a prettier interface. You can't really do anything useful with them within Obsidian without some plugins (like Dataview) just yet, but dynamic databases are on the roadmap. So, eventually you'll be able to query, filter, sort notes without a third-party plugin, get the results as a table, and insert that table into some of your notes. Think "every book note whose author = John Doe, sorted by release date", "every note that contains #tag1 and #tag2, but not #tag3", things like that. And the result will be auto-updated whenever you change some metadata.
- bad_username 3y ago> In programming terms they're variables you add to the top of a note If you have the dataview plugin installed, you can also define properties in the note itself, using the `property:: value` syntax.
- PurpleRamen 3y agoProperties are not really new, it's just a more dedicated name for frontmatter, which already exists since the beginning, and where tags are saved. But it also comes with a nice interface and integrated support for fields outside of tags, which until now was an area where you were depending on plugins like dataview. It seems on the long run, they plan to shift Obsidian more into the direction of Notion Databases, and delivering an improved version of dataview out-of-the-box.
- PrimeMcFly 3y agoClosed source, right? It's unorthodox but my favorite notekeeping app has become TeXStudio, just raw tex files that I never compile, with macros to quickly insert sections, subsections and subsubsections and use the nav tree to quickly navigate. It works pretty well!
- ijustwanttovote 3y ago> https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.12/ https://obsidian.md/changelog/2023-09-11-desktop-v1.4.12/ it just makes markdown files
- replete 3y agohttps://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippets https://github.com/replete/obsidian-minimal-theme-css-snippe... This is a repo of my working obsidian UI improvements / plugin homogenizations for Minimal Theme users. The Properties autohide is pretty handy. Just a bunch of CSS. That's what I like about Obsidian, I fix anything I don't like.
- IOT_Apprentice 3y agoI find Obsidian to not really provide a usable experience. Adding images and having them often change while either mousing over them or inadvertently clicking can switch them to binary looking objects. I find using Apple notes for personal use and confluence at work to be faster. I don’t think in markup and have tools like this get in my way rather than being quick to capture images & thoughts unobtrusively.
- 7ewis 3y agoWhat's the general consensus on Obsidian? I've been using Notion on/off for a while and remember reading a lot of people were migrating to Obsidian as I believe it had two features Notion users have been begging for if I remember correctly - offline mode and encrypted at rest (although I believe Obsidian is self hosted?)/
- Lacusch 3y agoObsidian is similar to Notion, except it's plaintext (mostly markdown, but there are plugins for other formats as well) and is an electron app it's, which admittedly some people are not a big fan of because of the performance reasons. In this case though I would argue it's a great strength, because you can use JavaScript to write plugins and ot has a good ecosystem already.
- PurpleRamen 3y agoNotion is better in most things it's doing, while obsidian is better in the things Notion is not offering or where it's weak. So it depends on your priorities and abilities. And on the long run, the gap will become smaller and smaller, in favor of obsidian I would say.
- JonChesterfield 3y agoI'm running out of patience with the built-in sync deleting paragraphs and generally mangling text. Is the standard fix generally to do something like git commit all via cron, and if so, can android do that these days?
- TheFreim 3y agoI use syncthing with my phone as the always-on mediator between my other devices, works quite well.
- brokenmachine 3y agoObsidian + Syncthing is what has finally replaced Google Docs for me, and I'm very happy with that combination. Still haven't found a good replacement for Google Sheets though...