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I recently switched my note taking to Obsidian. I’d floated amongst apps, including Notion, Bear, Simplenote, and most recently Craft. When Craft started acting

I recently switched my note taking to Obsidian. I’d floated amongst apps, including Notion, Bear, Simplenote, and most recently Craft. When Craft started acting up, I decided it was time to redo my setup. The standard advice for Obsidian is either to not touch the plugins, or install 100 of them after watching 50 hours of YouTube videos. It is possible to easily get into an obsidian rabbit hole for sure, but I did find a happy medium and I’m thrilled with my current setup. It’s not perfect but it’s quite workable. Some of the quirks are tables - and it looks like that’s getting fixed. Thrilled about that. The mobile app is pretty wonky too but that’s not a huge priority. Despite the quirks I’m more organized with my daily notes and project setup using obsidian than any app prior. Great to see the team is continually updating an already great app.

e28eta 3y ago
Do you do anything re: security of the plugins that you install? Maybe I learned about the contents of [1] at the wrong time (like after a prominent supply chain compromise was found), but it made me avoid them completely. 1: https://help.obsidian.md/Extending+Obsidian/Plugin+security https://help.obsidian.md/Extending+Obsidian/Plugin+security
moneywoes 3y ago
what issue did you find with craft? i’m currently trialing that after finding obsidian too complex haha
elric 3y ago
You don't need any plugins to be productive in Obsidian. But boy does a plugin like Dataview make life easier. Being able to run SQL-like queries on your notes was a game changer for me. Other than that, the only plugin I use on a daily basis is Templater in combination with Quick Add, which lets me create advanced templates which can be executed with keyboard shortcuts. Starting a new work meeting? Hit a shortcut and I have a populated meeting note in the right folder, with today's dates etc. I have about 20 such templates for various things that I do frequently. It makes for tidy, structured notes which I can easily find later.

e28eta 3y ago

Do you do anything re: security of the plugins that you install? Maybe I learned about the contents of [1] at the wrong time (like after a prominent supply chain compromise was found), but it made me avoid them completely. 1: https://help.obsidian.md/Extending+Obsidian/Plugin+security https://help.obsidian.md/Extending+Obsidian/Plugin+security

moneywoes 3y ago

what issue did you find with craft? i’m currently trialing that after finding obsidian too complex haha

elric 3y ago

You don't need any plugins to be productive in Obsidian. But boy does a plugin like Dataview make life easier. Being able to run SQL-like queries on your notes was a game changer for me. Other than that, the only plugin I use on a daily basis is Templater in combination with Quick Add, which lets me create advanced templates which can be executed with keyboard shortcuts. Starting a new work meeting? Hit a shortcut and I have a populated meeting note in the right folder, with today's dates etc. I have about 20 such templates for various things that I do frequently. It makes for tidy, structured notes which I can easily find later.