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Migrating from DokuWiki to Obsidian
- Multicomp 2y agoNice! I've been resisting Obsidian because I prefer the multimedia capabilities of OneNote, but since I have an old dokuwiki install that has floated around for a long time, I may just use this to finally kick the obsidian tires.
- BenFranklin100 2y agoIf you’re looking to incorporate markdown into OneNote, you may want to look at the OneMark addin: https://onemark.neux.studio https://onemark.neux.studio
- jabits 2y agoThanks, I’ve been looking for something like this.
- CWuestefeld 2y agoI've been a OneNote user for years, but a few months ago MS sabotaged the clipper extension for Firefox - and for no apparent reason except, apparently, to force people toward Edge. If they're going to maliciously break my workflow, then who needs 'em? So I've switched to Obsidian, although I'm finding it a little clunky and I've also been playing Zoot.
- scblock 2y agoSite is nearly unreadable on an iPhone or Firefox on Windows, showing up with a dark background and dark text. Something broken in the CSS?
- warkdarrior 2y agoSame problem on macOS, in Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
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- mirshko 2y agoSeems text color is driven by light / dark mode at the OS level, but the background color is not.
- jholman 2y agoIf you're already using Firefox, all you have to do is click the Reader Mode button, at the right edge of your URL bar. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
- ortusdux 2y agoIntended color scheme? https://i.ibb.co/741mzfh/image.png https://i.ibb.co/741mzfh/image.png
- RsmFz 2y agoLooks correct now on Firefox on macOS (light mode, probably)
- iforgotpassword 2y agoThe screenshot doesn't load for me, but I see a very dark color, maybe purple, on black background. Absolutely no way to read anything, just about able to make out that there is some text. Firefox on android, no dark mode.
- jimjimjim 2y agoThats what i get on firefox on ios
- AstroJetson 2y agoI got dark on more dark. Hope this was awesome, but I can't read it. Chrome.
- ortusdux 2y agoAppears to be fixed! - https://i.ibb.co/VLsLFyP/image.png https://i.ibb.co/VLsLFyP/image.png
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- ndarray 2y agoThis website is a good test of who actually clicked the link, not able to read a thing, coming back to the comments to report the bad experience, and who didn't click the link/is a bot, talking about the article as if nothing happened.
- daemonologist 2y agoThe styling isn't broken for everyone (looks fine to me, Firefox on Fedora in dark mode), so I'm afraid the test may have some false positives.
- arp242 2y agoYes, it's only broken in "light mode"; looks like there's a bug/omission in the CSS it doesn't correctly set the background colour (but does set the text colour).
- crabmusket 2y agoI simply flicked on reader mode (Firefox/Android). But to the OP yes, please do fix your styles!
- dsr_ 2y agoSame, FF/Mac.
- juujian 2y agoLooks fine on mobile
- al_borland 2y agoWhich mobile? I’m on Safari on iOS and it’s bad.
- fransje26 2y agoFirefox, Android.
- loph 2y agousability test much? effectively unreadable.
- crabmusket 2y agoI've just gotten interested in Dokuwiki for use in a small association I've joined which is slowly realising that just having a free Slack account is not going to cut it for all our shared knowledge needs. And since we have a WordPress site, Dokuwiki is about a 30-second installation away. Looking into the project governance/maintenance it looks sturdy- while seemingly one person does a lot of the work, there's a community there. It appears to me, a newcomer, like a project that could last a very long time while being boring and doing exactly what it needs to, no more and no less. As for the subject of the post itself; for a single person personal wiki, I'd also use Obsidian. I love that I can sync it to my phone with Syncthing, which is a mild pain but free!
- 404mm 2y agoI decided to migrate from DokuWiki to Markdown some time ago too. I write a python script for the conversion if anyone is interested https://github.com/michalmiddleton/Dokuwiki2Markdown https://github.com/michalmiddleton/Dokuwiki2Markdown
- rowlandc 2y agoThis site is borderline unreadable, maybe a little tiny bit of CSS testing in order before sharing stuff here... ouch, my eyes.
- paradox460 2y agoI've been using foam instead of obsidian for my personal knowledge base. It works rather well. And it's completely free and ultimately just markdown. While I might wish it was djot, I don't wish hard enough to make that so myself https://foambubble.github.io/foam/ https://foambubble.github.io/foam/
- fooqux 2y agoKinda neat, but only if you live in Code. Not sure it would work for me, as a lot of time I have a random idea I don't want to lose while I'm not at my computer. And while I know it's just markdown and thus any text editor could open them on my phone, I do enjoy having something like Obsidian which works well on my phone and syncs files over git.
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- hoppyhoppy2 2y agohttps://code.visualstudio.com/download https://code.visualstudio.com/download
- hn_acker 2y agoVisual Studio Code binaries from Microsoft's website is proprietary [1] even though their source code is available under the MIT License. VSCodium provides MIT License builds with Microsoft telemetry removed [2][3]. [1] https://code.visualstudio.com/license https://code.visualstudio.com/license [2] https://vscodium.com/ https://vscodium.com/ [3] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases
- egberts1 2y agoHopefully we can turn "tracking" off in VSCode.
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- poglet 2y agoI started migrating from OneNote to BookStack wiki. Loving it so far, but am not sure how backups and data exports work. It's nice to be able to have it publicly available and accessible from any internet connection.
- nfriedly 2y agoI haven't tried Obsidian, but I'm pretty happy with NextCloud Notes which saves all my notes as either plain text or markdown and keeps them in sync across my phone, and various computers.
- suprjami 2y agoI recently spun up a self-hosted Nextcloud and was pleased to see my existing directory of Markdown notes just worked.
- egberts1 2y agoi couldn't put import various media into Obsidian.
- Kichererbsen 2y agoWhat kind of media? An Obsidian vault is just a folder with files in it - and with the `![[file-name]]` syntax or the `` syntax if you prefer plain markdown (for portability?!) it just embeds?
- apitman 2y agoObsidian's business model might be genius. Open file formats; closed source. By making a great product, they attract users. Usually the main argument against software like this is vendor lock-in. But by using open formats, there's always an escape hatch. If they decided to squeeze their users, I suspect a decent open source alternative would pop up very quickly. In the meantime, casual open source alternatives are very unlikely to catch up in terms of quality and features, because they don't have a funded team working on them full time. On the flipside, Obsidian is incentivized to keep their customers happy, because their moat isn't so large as to allow complete complacency. Overall some of the best aligned incentives I've seen. Though it does make me sad because I feel like we almost never see this good of balance in open source software.
- boraoztunc 2y agoProducts are the reflections of their makers. Obsidian is a great example. Happy from the beginning.
- abhinavk 2y agoYeah. It's one of my most used apps. I pay for Sync to support their model even though I hardly use it on my phone. Apart from no lock-in, another benefit of the open format model is that you can complement it with other tools. Since their code editor is not that great, I just open the vault folder in Vim/VSCode when it becomes cumbersome.
- itsjustjoe 2y agoThe third party plugin community is fantastic as well, I use it for GMing TTRPG sessions and I have a pretty powerful workflow built out.
- zappchance 2y agoCare to share which plugins you use? I'm interested in GMing some lesser known RPGs.
- throwbmw 2y agoPlease write a blog about it
- aidenn0 2y agoFWIW, Pandoc can convert from dokuwiki to markdown.
- ahmed_ds 2y agoI honestly think if Pandoc had a GUI, it could genuinely be the fourth most popular word processing software out there. Just a simple GUI and a rich text editor—that's it.
- jszymborski 2y agoI have used and loved both DokuWiki and Obsidian (although I use Joplin these days). As the author noted, DokuWiki is best with collaborators and when public facing. However I've found a Git repo with Markdown files that link to eachother makes a killer decentralized collaborative KB. Add to that forges like GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg which render the markdown and list the files in your browser and it's truly great.
- kristianpaul 2y agoIt took me a while to realize that there wasn’t an obsidian git repository to check out the source
- kaeruct 2y agoThanks everyone for the feedback regarding the issue with readability in light mode. I completely missed it!
- yegle 2y agoI wonder if migrating to tiddlywiki would be a better option. Mostly writing in Markdown, lightweight, intended for single user, open source & have good mobile web UI.
- graemep 2y agoTiddlywiki or Zim or one of many tools meant for single users. Dokuwiki seems like overkill for a single user.
- entrepy123 2y agoIt's possible to basically avoid the second step ("Convert all text files from DokuWiki Syntax to proper Markdown") by only ever writing Markdown in Dokuwiki to begin with. To write Markdown in DokuWiki, the "DokuWiki Commonmark Plugin" [0] is pretty great. To use it, tips are: - REQUIRED: On the top line of each page, put `<!DOCTYPE markdown>` (using the new toolbar button or typing it in). So that Dokuwiki knows the page is in markdown. - STRONGLY SUGGESTED: In the Dokuwiki Config, set the `maxseclevel` to 0. Since the Commonmark markdown plugin currently unfortunately sort of messes up edit-section.) That's basically it. Makes the Dokuwiki files that much more immediately-portable, in theory. [0] https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:commonmark https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:commonmark
- tannhaeuser 2y agoInteresting, didn't know about <!DOCTYPE markdown>. Though as an SGML pedant, I have to say using this doctype declaration in this way just tells an SGML or XML parser about the base ("root") element and is thus simply incorrect since there is no "markdown" element. The proper way would be to use just "html", and adding SGML shortref declarations in the "internal subset" for markdown-to-HTML mapping, like sgmljs is doing.
- Xen9 2y agoRegarding note-taking, an Obsidian plugin that generates Loci's palaces where you get to add all sort of things, using stable diffusion & other new technology (rotable 3D => better spatial memory) would be great.
- yibbix 2y agoI use obsidian daily and while I love it, I do feel it’s got lots of flaws. Mostly I feel the development team is pretty opinionated with some of its choices, especially regarding its tab management. I find myself annoyed by a lot of the basic functionality and am constantly having to add custom css or plugins. I’m grateful that the plugin community is pretty large, but it sucks needing so many plugins just to make the program useable in the way I want to use it, rather than obsidian having more options and toggles built in.
- kepano 2y agoWhat are the plugins or toggles you think should be included in the app?
- yibbix 2y agoSome plugins are Another Quick Switcher, File Explorer++, Force note view mode, Remember cursor position, and Open in New Tab. These plugins mostly chance existing functionality to work better how I would expect them to or add some QOL features. Obviously I don't expect Obsidian to implement massive features like Dataview, Kanban, Projects, Calendars, etc. One of my biggest complaints though is Obsidian's tab management. Notes are always opened in whatever tab I am currently in, even if the note is already open in another tab. I know that I can just hold shift or ctrl to do a new tab but I forget to do that all the time and would just love a toggle to always open notes in a new tab, or swap to an existing tab that note is already open in. The default quick switcher I feel is also very bare bones. I can't search by tags for example. I would also love it if obsidian had native markdown table support similar to how the advanced tables plugin works. I know I can just use that plugin but it does not work in live preview edit mode which is what I prefer to use. I don't know if that's an Obsidian issue or a plugin issue. I'd also like to see tree style tabs or just vertical tabs in general similar to vscode's open editors feature. I tend of have many tabs open and am constantly switching around. Overall though maybe I'm just using Obsidian wrong or its just not for me, but out of all the note taking apps/markdown editors I've used, Obsidian is the closest to perfect that I've seen. EDIT: I should add as well, I do appreciate that Obsidian allows for plugins and custom CSS. I'd rather be able to change the things that I don't like rather than be locked into the default functionality. However with some of these plugins being implemented in "hacky" ways as their description says while also not being updated in quite some time, I do wonder how much longer they will continue to work before an update breaks them permanently.
- hi-v-rocknroll 2y agoCurrent Obsidian user having migrated from Apple's Notes.app. I used to use DokuWiki about 15 years ago (~2008) to document the IT systems at a biomedical informatics department.