I will start with Obsidian.
It's a good WYSIWYG markdown note taking app that lets you embed and see images in the editor, but people sell it like it's a second brain and that it's revolutionized note taking somehow.
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The ability for hierarchical file organization and smart hyperlinking between documents are pretty nice.
>smart hyperlinking
I haven't had the opportunity to use that feature but I can see it being pretty useful for building your own wiki.
But except for that feature, embedding images and showing you formatted markdown, it's basically the same as using VSCode and creating the files yourself.
Not to say it's not nice, but not the second coming of Christ.
It isn't, but when should one ever listen to "lifestyle" "productivity" "gurus" anyway? if it works for your use case, then great. otherwise, just look for something else.
Are people here too stupid to use Org-Mode or something?
My hands couldn’t cope with emacs cramp
Did you rebind your capslock to CTRL? I'd kill myself otherwise
>Org-Mode
I'm still not even quite sure what that is. I just know it's Linux Emacs homosexualry.
Pretty much
Is it good for RTL?
Logseq does that for free(dom).
Logseq for notes
Todo.txt for tasks
CalDAV on NextCloud for calendar sync
Thunderbird for calendar
Get a bigger hand
I went Evernote>Keep>Joplin>Obsidian>Logseq. Is there any reason you'd recommend switching to TiddlyWiki?
>Logseq does that for free(dom).
I don't recall Logseq being able to organize pages hierarchically into folders like Obsidian, everything was all in one single bucket.
Logseq allows you to break your notes into pages, and then there are bullets within each page, but there aren't any folders (although you can get somewhat close with namespaces). It's kind of halfway between Obisdian and something like Workflowy or Tana, where everything is stored in one giant document.
I don't believe in notetaking.
And it's a proprietary blob
What is this? I have installer in my Torrents folder for some reason but never bothered to install it
Is it a meme-organizer made in Electron?
It's a note taking app made in Electron.
Based.
Im looking for a scheduler/organizer app. I remember a year ago someone here recommended something god but I lost the name of it
It's the only note taking app I've actually been able to stick with. Before I just made hundreds of text files.
I went from pile of text files > OneNote > Obsidian and now back to piles of text files and spreadsheets. I enjoyed OneNote but disliked the lack of plain text and the cloud-only environment. I found Obsidian too wanky, edgy and over-engineered for my needs. Also fugly dull webshit UI which none of the available themes improved at all
Joplin is great, I dig the web clipping addon aswell.
Obsidian is CIA spyware. John Hammond confirmed it like 2 months ago.
I assumed if all the IQfyuys were using it they must have wiresharked it to make sure this wasn't a thing... I thought too highly of this basket weaving forum once again
homie barely half these gays know how to code, let alone validate their network connections
unzippr.com
Obsidian is pretty good have a few normie friends that use it for Uni. It can also embed LaTeX which is quite nice.
I use org-mode and love it but also think it is a bit overrated. It is pretty much the same thing as with obsidian but instead of
>muh entrepreneur/gigachad/life coach selling you obsidian as a second brain
it is
>muh techbro that definitely is not a normie in disguise selling you on org-mode
Still it is very good especially all the integrations it has with emacs (you can find a package for everything) and I use it daily. + Org Agenda is better than any calendar change my mind
anything rivaling it in the open source world? Apart from Logseq that I read it has weird local and sync issues that delete your stuff
TiddlyWiki, anon. Rivals and exceeds it.
I've tried using Joplin but the interface felt janky, the WYSIWYG mode wasn't as good and it didn't let me pick a custom directory to keep the data.
Also (this is very nitpicky, but) it maps ctrl-s to opening the data sync screen to their paid service, and since I'm used to pressing ctrl-s while typing, I just kept opening it.
transmission.
it's fine, it works, not the end of the road for bittorrent clients, though. it's full of bugs including some that cause massive files to download twice, which sucks ass.
its like too much work to be honest.
why would i organize my life and thoughts and shit when its 9 to 5 6 days a week and when i get home the only thing i want to do is to play games and compile shit
>when i get home the only thing i want to do is to play games and compile shit
Based Gentoo user
we live in a world where for such basic cable task like notetaking they ship 500mb app which eats another 500mb of memory
Luxurious times indeed. Put those transistors to work. We got billions of them.
Why do people call everything 'technology'?
How exactly is Obsidian *a* technology?
when I wish to remember something, I simply use my memory instead of writing it in a note
>I checked all my stupid little rectangles, now I can get the green check and a sound effect.
Indeed, most of these "productivity" apps are useless, they just make you feel productive, while you're still a loser.
>I woke up, meditated for 10 minutes, then started my gratitude journaling...
It's just mental masturbation, you don't improve, it's like running on a treadmill, you feel the heat and movement but you're still on your place.
If you're thinking about starting a personal knowledge base, try TiddlyWiki! It's FOSS, infinitely customizable, and the entire thing runs locally and offline (without needing hosting).
Found this one recently: https://vitepress.dev/
This is based on it: https://wiki.nikiv.dev/free
Kind of cool ngl
do people really buy into this?
The free stuff has a bunch of good links, so I'd say yes.
here. Holy shit that thing is versatile as frick.
It use it to draft and writes articles. It has a nice, but kinda buggy, plugin for that, Longform.
The issue with Obsidian is that it's easy to get lost in the weeds. If you add couple of plugins and keep it simple (I know how it sounds, anon), it can be a very useful writing tool.
I use it with Focus mode plugin and write away.
It'd be great if Sync wasn't $10/mo and didn't suck shit. About once a month it has a conflict, if I move my notes location, it completely breaks.
Way overpriced. If it was like $3/mo I'd pay it for life. But after about a year of it, I'm looking for alternatives.
The way it handles images and attachments are annoying. Just dumping images in an Attachments folder and if I ever delete that image, I need to install a 3rd party plugin to scan for orphaned image files.
Tables finally got somewhat decent yet they still kind of suck?
Why do the lists suck so bad too? No drag and drop on lists is insane. Why does edit mode and read mode look completely different?
I want to enjoy the benefits of having .md files on my computer, but everything else about it sucks too hard. As long as I can make a monthly backup to my NAS of my notes from whatever app I use, that's fine. I'll recreate the 50 or so notes I actually keep in about an hour on any other app and take the L on the month of changes I lost.
Besides, creating a personal knowledge brain/wiki or whatever is so overrated. I've been doing it for years. I realized at a certain point, I never once looked back on my notes. I was just hoarding. I eventually just deleted like 80% of my notes or moved them to cold storage on my NAS. Big surprise, I'm just as productive in life.
There really is a huge market for productivity these days. They want you to think you need this. You really don't. Digital hoarding is real and stupid.
Joplin could be up your alley since it has much, much better sync options. Sadly it doesn't store notes in pure .md, you gotta export it from the app.
Nonetheless, if you have your own NAS then Joplin could be up your alley.
Syncthing is free, fellow poorgay
I use Syncthing, it just sucks on iOS devices. It's a battery drain.
>iOS devices
Hahahhahahahhahahahaha
Very original reaction. You got me so good.
I like small phones.
I hear there is an addon that lets you keep your data on Github.
You could always use Dropbox/Mega/etc.
>There really is a huge market for productivity these days. They want you to think you need this. You really don't. Digital hoarding is real and stupid.
It's all Mental Masturbation
I started using Notion and I think I like it more than obsidian honestly
Good luck with all your notes and data when you can't even extract them in a usable format.
https://www.notion.so/help/export-your-content
Plenty of reasons why Notion sucks, but you can export your workspace pretty easily. Even in markdown format. I'm sure it may export a bit wonky, but you can probably rebuild it without much loss in an afternoon in any other app.
As long as you have some sort of exit plan and some semblance of backups to rebuild with, most apps are fine.
If you're that concerned, just use pen and paper.
Obsidian and other markdown solution users love to brag about the storage format but I don't know anyone who's actually lost all of their iCloud Notes, Google Docs, Notion, Evernote, or whatever. If you're storing more than like 100 notes you actually use, you're a hoarder. If you want to migrate, it wouldn't take more than an hour to manually copy/paste each individual note to a new app. If the app/service goes down, well I hope you were making backups and most of these apps can do that.
The only valid use I can think of with Obsidian is Dungeon Masters, fiction writers, and world builders.
>Obsidian
Just use pen and paper. The only reason I can find to use technology in this case, is archiving, sharing, and editing.
If it's just learning notes, it's better to use pen and paper (if the learning subject isn't technology itself.)
>stfu boomer
You can keep trying all of the BS taking productivity trash, you will not find anything better than pen and paper. You can literally make it your own, and then (if you want, and it's something worth it) you can archive it (scan it or rewrite it) in an HDD/NAS.
>Software
The only valid use of note-taking software is to archive, share, and edit. Anything else is just useless and unusable.
Just use pen and paper, and buy an archive, and separate notes based on subjects. Then (if you want, and it's worth it) rewrite your notes or scan them to digitalize them.
>b-but second brain
You don't need a second brain idiot. does people can't use their brains, organizing thoughts managing, and manipulating them is the main purpose of the brain. Do you think the greatest minds of all history used Obsidian or Notion? wake up.
I made this meme, but they don't let me upload it (frick you IQfy).https://files.catbox.moe/7lojzn.png
>ITT: Good tech that's also overrated
>only a few examples in the whole thread
JFC, this board is so shit...
Sorry we can't all entertain you with our collaborative list of "good tech that's also overrated", such a great topic that we all can think of hundreds of examples of. Since I assume you can also think of a hundred examples of this, why don't you share a few of them instead of b***hing?
because I don't use overrated software? for taking notes I use cherrytree. I use browsers for browsing and analyzing/debugging websites/webapps/servers, and a bunch of other tools for my job that are actually useful and feature rich, features that I actually use.
I'm not even the OP, I came to this thread because I wanted to see what crap software I needed to try or to avoid. I found only a few examples of stuff that could be useful ITT, which sucks. but this is IQfy, so, nothing unexpected.
I use obsidian but I could do the same shit with regular text files
I don't use any of the hyperlinking, second brain, graph shit
why bother putting that much effort when I can just ask an LLM to do it for me lmao
even local LLMs are probably good enough for that these days
I could not fanthom why people are using Obsidian, a service that could shut down at any moment. Imagine taking notes all your life on it, everything from lecture notes, account credentials, family photos, next thing you know all of them are gone and locked to their service.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
Please enlighten me, I am not being sarcastic, I truly have no idea.
I don't even use obsidian but am pretty sure your notes are stored locally in an open format. Nta
bruh obsidian stores your files locally in plaintext
>overcomplicating simple notetaking
>good tech
Frick eceleb fotm fads and grifter "influencers"