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What is one thing you love & hate about ObsidianMD? (mastodon.social)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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@obsidianmd What is one thing you love & hate about ObsidianMD?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I love that I can dump all my knowledge there and have it be easily searchable on my PC, phone, etc. I love that I can take notes, attach PDFs and images, or make my own canvases and excalidraw diagrams. It's awesome and flexible.

I hate that it's not FOSS. I appreciate that it's an open format (plaintext Markdown files) and prefer closed app and open data to the reverse (Joplin is open source, but mangles notes into a database). I'm strongly considering giving logseq a try, but some of my favorite obsidian features have become a crutch that I don't know if I want to live without.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

FWIW I was using LogSeq for a while because I wanted a FOSS obsidian equivalent... As I discovered, it isn't really an equivalent at all, it's very much it's own thing. One thing LogSeq really doesn't do well is long form notes, I tried using it in combination with Zettlr for long form notes, which was good when I was doing my academic and engineering work, but didn't really fit with my personal notes very well.

I recently decided to try LogSeq and Obsidian together and so far I'm finding it really works well. I treat LogSeq as my daily notepad, I put in my tasks and small thoughts. I use Obsidian for my more permanent, bigger notes about things. My LogSeq graph and Obsidian vault are the same folder, and I have it configured so both use the same date format and assets folder. The only thing I've yet to check is if I can use YAML front matter in LogSeq in place of their style of front matter, because they would make the notes fit together much better.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I really just want it to be open source.

I also really missed the Outline feature of Logseq when using it. It's hard to lose that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I feel the pain, I also really want it to be open source (and I think it's funny that they talk about most of the community plugins being open source as a plus, but don't recognise how that could be a plus for the app as well if they open sourced it).

As for missing bits of LogSeq, I use both LogSeq and Obsidian together. I have my LogSeq graph and Obsidian vault use the same folder, and have them configured so they use the same default folders and date formats. It works quite well for me

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Syncing probably, but even that can be solved by another excellent software called Syncthing... Or just spend money to subscribe to their sync service, if you have it :)

The start up time seems to be pretty slow to me, barely a problem in desktop, but on mobile it genuinely bothers me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Their sync service is way too expensive but then again the software is free and too good.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

i love I have a central place i can put everything I need to reference or remember and have it backed up to Git for version control and all the connections between documents relate to each other the way they do in my head.

What I hate is the phone app not letting me have a default template or template select on news document. I also wish it was open source but I won't fault them for that. I also hate that the git plug in doesn't work on mobile so I have to do a sync and commit from my server vs committing directly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It would be amazing to have a way to not have to use the Sync system across all devices. I get Sync is good for most people but it has its limits compared to using Git or other methods.

Also, it's always good to have your notes work the way they do in your head.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

yeah I known it sounds weird but i group my messages normally but also tag based on emotions, smells, tastes and other sensory input I feeling when experiencing the thing I'm writing about. It helps me connect to the information and helps with recall to put me back in that place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

For mobile: there isn't a widget to create a note from a template.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I just wish it was open source. I love everything else about it pretty much.

[–] illectrility 2 points 3 months ago

I love how quickly I can get things done using keybindings (I use Vim in Obsidian) and how I can link everything together to really form a second brain with lots and lots of stuff all linked together nicely. I also love Obsidian Sync, I think it's worth it.

I hate the unreasonably long startup time. It's even worse on mobile as every time you open the app, it fully restarts, taking 10+ seconds. I've been trying to leave it open in the background but it's muscle memory to close all apps immediately.

I also don't like the lack of a good CAS plugin. I currently use mathpad which gets the job done but I often find myself tinkering with my input because mathpad sometimes just refuses to work properly. Maybe it approximates too much or sth but often times it just doesn't calculate accurately, doesn't solve equations properly, etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

For some reason my obsidian can only remember 3 or so vaults, when I want to open another I need to enable thrust and have to reindex the data.

What I love is that everything is a file and is easily backed up and restored via git.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

The syntax for inline linking to pages with a space in their name is awful