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Thanks for sharing your thoughts on your favorite notetaking app OP, it's more than I've done for mine. I'm glad it works for you, the in-between applications t

Thanks for sharing your thoughts on your favorite notetaking app OP, it's more than I've done for mine. I'm glad it works for you, the in-between applications trying to do notetaking is a pain. I settled on OneNote because I'm always trying to capture context with my notes, codify my knowledge. Usually that means screenshots, handwriting, file copies, rarely video or audio embeddings. I'm not going to try to convince you to use onenote, I want to instead complain about how this makes me boring and uncool, I see how trendy/popular the 'markdown files plus some goodies' notetaking applications are, but somehow I just don't get why those have enough ROI for my usecase, but still, my ego of not being a cool 10x developer who uses only certified organic grass-fed markdown files for my notes means I write rant comments like this. Anyways, that's much ado about nothing on my part, again, thanks for sharing!

lawgimenez 3y ago
Speaking of boring, my entire life runs on Apple Notes. Everything to-dos, from family, kids, work, car, etc. I am just not sure how to migrate all of my 2,000 plus notes on to a new system. Plus with limited mobile data signal, I’m not sure if apps like Obsidian will work.
- pantulis 3y ago
  People have reported success using Exporter, which is reasonably priced. http://falcon.star-lord.me/exporter http://falcon.star-lord.me/exporter
  - lawgimenez 3y ago
    Thanks! Will look into it.
  - jazzyjackson 3y ago
    This might have been necessary at some point but if you sync your notes with icloud then they can be exported by logging into privacy.apple.com and clicking "request a copy of your data" You can also get your icloud drive and photos this way.
- Hoefner 3y ago
  Also Obsidian has Importer plugin for Apple Notes https://help.obsidian.md/import/apple-notes https://help.obsidian.md/import/apple-notes
  - drio0 3y ago
    Which you need a Mac to run
    - theshrike79 3y ago
      I'm pretty sure OP with their 2000 notes in Apple Notes has a Mac.
- kstrauser 3y ago
  I just moved all of my stuff into Notes. It’s Good Enough. Other tools have a million cool extra features, but in practice most of those just give me an excuse to screw around with the tool instead of work with the information inside it. Notes isn’t flashy. Howver, it does all of the things I truly need such an app to do. So fine. It also has the huge, free feature that I can share notes with my wife and we can edit them together. That came in handy over Christmas with our shared shopping list.
FredPret 3y ago
I once had a job where I needed tons of notes on hundreds of clients and dozens of subjects. Detailed technical notes with screenshots and code snippets and names and birthdays and to-do lists. I used OneNote. It worked brilliantly. Until my notebook file corrupted. Obsidian does the same job, but I miss the tabs. At least it’s all text files - no proprietary files to corrupt.
- Feathercrown 3y ago
  Obsidian has tabs, you can right click --> open in new tab
  - FredPret 3y ago
    Yes but OneNote has tabs along the top and down the side. Obsidian's tabs along the top show open documents, whereas with OneNote it's more a placeholder for more data.
- jodrellblank 3y ago
  Lovehate OneNote; the easy paste and type and draw, all WSYWIG, is great. But it feels like a place to lose notes and never find them again. "OneNote for Windows 10" gives a weird hierarchy view of notebooks on the left, which slides into folders and pages; "OneNote" shows the same data as a dropdown list of notebooks at the top, tabs along the top for folders and tabs down the right for pages; why so different? And it's obsessed with slurping your data up to Microsoft. If you want to stick with an older (unsupported) classic Desktop OneNote, you get a modal dialog box every. single. time. you. open. it. saying "Get more out of OneNote. A newer version of OneNote is now available for free. Go to www.onenote.com to download." On the plus side, if you do use Microsoft Cloud storage then you can query and work with the OneNote data through the MS Graph REST API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/integrate-with-onenote#what-can-i-do-with-onenote-apis-in-microsoft-graph https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/integrate-with-oneno... So you can programatically add and update content in pages in a shared team notebook, for example. And because it "runs" in MS cloud it supports things like asking the cloud services to "screenshot this webpage for me and add it as a note" and "extract content from this website and add it".
pomatic 3y ago
I love the way OneNote handles images - and the ability to include ink annotations. I wish there was a FOSS equivalent on Linux with a similar UI experience (Obsidian image handling is incredibly clunky), although the improved availability of various exporters from OneNote makes me less leery about committing to a proprietary database format and the risks associated with potential dataloss from a random bug or database corruption.
- brimwats 3y ago
  Sabre Notes is aiming to get there sooner rather than later. incredible progress last year from basically nothing https://github.com/saber-notes/saber https://github.com/saber-notes/saber
hughesjj 3y ago
I mean, obsidian has support for audio and video out of the box, you can paste a screenshot into the note, and this all gets synced or published like normal I wrote some generator to scrape a mandarin learning site to download all the audio files, sentences, etc into a markdown table for obsidian. My biggest complaint is that the "master vocab sheet" I made with hundreds (thousands?) Of words+sentences lags like hell, especially on android. I'm also a fan of the excalidraw plugin, but it could be a bit more user friendly Tl;Dr those features exist but IDK if their UX suffices for you
- aaarrm 3y ago
  I believe it's a UX issue for most. Being able to float images to the side of text versus only being able to paste them linearly is a bigger deal than it sounds, organization-wise. And I know there's the canvases but I'm actually not a fan of those either. I don't want infinite in every direction, I just want the ability to move things around in the way that I want within a page-like document. Honestly I like everything about obsidian except the markdown, but I know for many people that is it's big selling point.

lawgimenez 3y ago

Speaking of boring, my entire life runs on Apple Notes. Everything to-dos, from family, kids, work, car, etc. I am just not sure how to migrate all of my 2,000 plus notes on to a new system. Plus with limited mobile data signal, I’m not sure if apps like Obsidian will work.

pantulis 3y ago
People have reported success using Exporter, which is reasonably priced. http://falcon.star-lord.me/exporter http://falcon.star-lord.me/exporter
- lawgimenez 3y ago
  Thanks! Will look into it.
- jazzyjackson 3y ago
  This might have been necessary at some point but if you sync your notes with icloud then they can be exported by logging into privacy.apple.com and clicking "request a copy of your data" You can also get your icloud drive and photos this way.
Hoefner 3y ago
Also Obsidian has Importer plugin for Apple Notes https://help.obsidian.md/import/apple-notes https://help.obsidian.md/import/apple-notes
- drio0 3y ago
  Which you need a Mac to run
  - theshrike79 3y ago
    I'm pretty sure OP with their 2000 notes in Apple Notes has a Mac.
kstrauser 3y ago
I just moved all of my stuff into Notes. It’s Good Enough. Other tools have a million cool extra features, but in practice most of those just give me an excuse to screw around with the tool instead of work with the information inside it. Notes isn’t flashy. Howver, it does all of the things I truly need such an app to do. So fine. It also has the huge, free feature that I can share notes with my wife and we can edit them together. That came in handy over Christmas with our shared shopping list.

FredPret 3y ago

I once had a job where I needed tons of notes on hundreds of clients and dozens of subjects. Detailed technical notes with screenshots and code snippets and names and birthdays and to-do lists. I used OneNote. It worked brilliantly. Until my notebook file corrupted. Obsidian does the same job, but I miss the tabs. At least it’s all text files - no proprietary files to corrupt.

Feathercrown 3y ago
Obsidian has tabs, you can right click --> open in new tab
- FredPret 3y ago
  Yes but OneNote has tabs along the top and down the side. Obsidian's tabs along the top show open documents, whereas with OneNote it's more a placeholder for more data.
jodrellblank 3y ago
Lovehate OneNote; the easy paste and type and draw, all WSYWIG, is great. But it feels like a place to lose notes and never find them again. "OneNote for Windows 10" gives a weird hierarchy view of notebooks on the left, which slides into folders and pages; "OneNote" shows the same data as a dropdown list of notebooks at the top, tabs along the top for folders and tabs down the right for pages; why so different? And it's obsessed with slurping your data up to Microsoft. If you want to stick with an older (unsupported) classic Desktop OneNote, you get a modal dialog box every. single. time. you. open. it. saying "Get more out of OneNote. A newer version of OneNote is now available for free. Go to www.onenote.com to download." On the plus side, if you do use Microsoft Cloud storage then you can query and work with the OneNote data through the MS Graph REST API: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/integrate-with-onenote#what-can-i-do-with-onenote-apis-in-microsoft-graph https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/integrate-with-oneno... So you can programatically add and update content in pages in a shared team notebook, for example. And because it "runs" in MS cloud it supports things like asking the cloud services to "screenshot this webpage for me and add it as a note" and "extract content from this website and add it".

pomatic 3y ago

I love the way OneNote handles images - and the ability to include ink annotations. I wish there was a FOSS equivalent on Linux with a similar UI experience (Obsidian image handling is incredibly clunky), although the improved availability of various exporters from OneNote makes me less leery about committing to a proprietary database format and the risks associated with potential dataloss from a random bug or database corruption.

brimwats 3y ago
Sabre Notes is aiming to get there sooner rather than later. incredible progress last year from basically nothing https://github.com/saber-notes/saber https://github.com/saber-notes/saber

hughesjj 3y ago

I mean, obsidian has support for audio and video out of the box, you can paste a screenshot into the note, and this all gets synced or published like normal I wrote some generator to scrape a mandarin learning site to download all the audio files, sentences, etc into a markdown table for obsidian. My biggest complaint is that the "master vocab sheet" I made with hundreds (thousands?) Of words+sentences lags like hell, especially on android. I'm also a fan of the excalidraw plugin, but it could be a bit more user friendly Tl;Dr those features exist but IDK if their UX suffices for you

aaarrm 3y ago
I believe it's a UX issue for most. Being able to float images to the side of text versus only being able to paste them linearly is a bigger deal than it sounds, organization-wise. And I know there's the canvases but I'm actually not a fan of those either. I don't want infinite in every direction, I just want the ability to move things around in the way that I want within a page-like document. Honestly I like everything about obsidian except the markdown, but I know for many people that is it's big selling point.