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Coming from Linux where your Filesystem is your database and I use obsidian because I can pop it over a file tree and have my vault integrated into the rest of
by pfix 2y ago
Coming from Linux where your Filesystem is your database and I use obsidian because I can pop it over a file tree and have my vault integrated into the rest of my system, something like textbundle seems like alien and missing the point.
I like the general concept of sandboxing applications, but if it leads to this, it's more hindering than helping.
- ibash 2y agoHow do you handle attachments? In particular, if you attach a file to a note in obsidian then no other program can link to the right attachment, right?
- paxys 2y agoThere are no "attachments", just files and links. Your directory has note.md and image.jpg. The note has a link to the image. The client can then render the markdown and image as it wants. Any other application can also find and link to the attachment because...it's a file.
- vundercind 2y agoObsidian may avoid the problem well enough, but it’s been my experience that connected pieces of information that aren’t coupled very tightly indeed have a way of eventually becoming separated and never re-united. Goes for information in computer systems and for physical records/photos/objects.
- ibash 2y agoThat's what I meant. My experience is that if I link notes in obsidian I can't read it in any other text editor. And the opposite. Most recently I tested this with obsidian, ia writer, obsidian.nvim, fsnotes, and a few others I forget the name of. Especially if you want to access your notes on mobile and have a good syncing experience... you're out of luck if you want a non-proprietary format. Only notion and apple notes had reliable syncing.
- pfix 2y agoI use obsidian on android with syncthing and have no issues. Tailscale VPN for connecting "home" (my vps)
- xenodium 2y agoRelying on markdown links to local images works well on my machine, but breaks as soon as I'd like to share that markdown file with someone else. Sure, I can zip everything and send them over, but it's not as friendly for recepient as receiving a document handled by popular viewers, specially if they have to modify it and send it back. With wide adoption of something like TextBundle, we get to have our cake (keep using plain text) and eat it too (send, view, and edit richer files).
- cspeterson 2y agoI have in the past run markdown through an exporter that base64-encoded the images into the document before sharing with someone solves this one issue at least
- pfix 2y agoI've never had the usecase of sending markdown with images attached. I use markdown for personal notes and in the rare case I shared them in the past, either there were no (relevant) links or I shared with e.g. confluence and I could just add the image. My other usecase for markdown is Readmes and those are shared in git including the files. I understood this spec mostly for sharing with local apps. Is that a missed usecase by me? Markdown documents instead of word/pdf/powerpoint/whatnot?
- bityard 2y agoReading the site and spec, it sounds like TextBundle is specifically for exporting and importing your Markdown (or other documents) to and from various apps or other users. In particular, it's needed for software in the Apple ecosystem because there are (apparently) strict rules on how applications can communicate with each other. Personally, I was hoping TextBundle would be something like a standard format for inserting binary content into Markdown files. (Something better than just base64, anywho.) I could use such a thing for my home-grown wiki.