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by ericax 6y ago
Could you please reach out on our forum or Discord so we can help you debug? Link to forum and Discord: https://obsidian.md/community
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by ericax 6y ago
We have been in private beta for a few months already, with 5000+ beta testers and a community. We did let them know that we're doing a "Show HN" today. Hope that explains things!
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by ericax 6y ago
That's an interesting idea and we'll look into it! We plan to stay in business in the long run, but if things do go wrong and we shut down, we do intend to open source the app.
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by ericax 6y ago
Maker here, excited to be on Hacker News. Obsidian is going into public beta today! (We're also on Product Hunt, come check us out!) We made Obsidian to be your long-term second brain and personal knowledge base. As you put in more not
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Show HN: Obsidian – A knowledge base that works on local Markdown files(obsidian.md)
1087 points by ericax 6y ago|477 comments
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by ericax 6y ago
Obsidian uses Markdown, and is not an outliner.
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by ericax 6y ago
We should have cleared everyone from a few days ago, could you check your spam folder?
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by ericax 6y ago
Yep! Block math is already supported and inline math is coming very soon.
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by ericax 6y ago
We might provide a plugin in the future to achieve this. Right now I think the closet thing is to use set up an encrypted folder with a third party app to use with Obsidian.
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by ericax 6y ago
Thanks for the interest! Not yet, currently most of our users bring their own sync (Dropbox etc.), so if you edit the same document in real time that might create conflict copies. We're working on a sync service with end-to-end encrypt
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by ericax 6y ago
Notion is great, I used to want to build my knowledge base in it, but figured it's not future-proof enough for my needs. And that's part of the reason we went on to build Obsidian ( https://obsidian.md/ ), the loc
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by ericax 6y ago
I built Obsidian ( https://obsidian.md/ ), a local Markdown file based knowledge base app. It supports internal linking and graph view, and recently added multi-pane capabilities too. It's looking more and more like an I
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by ericax 6y ago
Did the same. Obsidian now in private beta: https://obsidian.md/ Obsidian is mainly about offline Markdown files, being link-centric, and being extensive (plugins). Give us a try if that sounds like what you need!
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by ericax 6y ago
I've made a project that incentivize people to write every day by planting a tree on their behalf for every day they write a certain word count. I made it because I think too many apps try to keep writers writing by punishing them, and
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by ericax 6y ago
While open source software really shines when lots of contributions work together and when everyone is polite, understanding, and well-reasoned, not every project is like that. Sometimes it's hard or even demoralizing for the developer
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by ericax 6y ago
Thanks, I looked at the code later and confirmed that too. The visual style is very similar to MindNode, but it's rebuilt using d3.
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by ericax 6y ago
Yes. Looks like the author made his own with D3 [1]. It does look very nice. I especially love the colors. [1]: https://github.com/gera2ld/markmap-lib/blob/master/src/view....
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by ericax 6y ago
This looks like really nice! Are you using a open sourced mind map rendering library, or did you write your own? It visually looks really familiar, but looking at package.json there only seems to be d3. I've looked at a bunch of option
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by ericax 6y ago
Shameless plug: for bidirectional linking, check out Obsidian! We're in private beta: https://obsidian.md Spaced repetition might also be supported in the future, but it's not as high priority as links. We also have a
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by ericax 7y ago
Yep I did look at Joplin, but it seems internal linking is not their focus, unfortunately.
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by ericax 7y ago
Gotta watch that, thanks!
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by ericax 7y ago
As a reference book, the Planet Construction Kit is good and comprehensive. Although reading reference books like this can be a bit dry, it helps you recognize the elements that an author makes up for his or her world when you see them.
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by ericax 7y ago
Curious, why do you want to do that for your startup? Is your startup a game studio?
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by ericax 7y ago
Hard magic system sounds very interesting. Although "unknown magic" and "ancient powers" are convenient, it bothers me to think there's no consistent system underneath it. In the setting of the world, people in the
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by ericax 7y ago
I'd say Obsidian is very similar to Zim. Zim is probably the closest thing I looked at before deciding to make my own thing. I wanted a few things that Zim didn't offer, such as a quick PDF viewer, bib/reference entries, audi
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by ericax 7y ago
There's no sync right now, the source of truth is your local folder. P.S. When I read bidirectional sync I misread it as bidirectional links, which is something we're working on as well!
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by ericax 7y ago
Yeah, I wonder why they decided on that as well. The first time I learned about this syntax is from MediaWiki's internal link syntax [1], I wonder if there are any predecessors before them. [1]: https://www.mediawiki.org&#x2
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by ericax 7y ago
Not sure I understand the first question, but if the topic itself contains "!", that's fine by the app, as long as it doesn't use the characters that the OS doesn't allow (like slashes). The vertical bar syntax is a
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by ericax 7y ago
Thanks! There are 3 main reasons: 1) At least to me, "[Topic](Topic.md)" is the most typical case, where the name of the link is the same as the file name without the ".md", so I feel like not repeating the title twice i
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by ericax 7y ago
World-building. After reading about storytelling, I realized that I'm as fascinated to a well-crafted world as good plots and characters. There's not much to read about, as a fiction world can contain as much detail as the real wo

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