use case?
>>108719755So you can feel 'productive' while gaining fat and fucking up your spine sitting down writing worthless shit not even you will open or look at.
>>108719755Cross platform .md reader that emacs and vim can't do.
Virtue tool (similar to virtue signal) so you can write blogposts about Zettelkasten or whatever it isEvery hobby/niche has it, from carbon fiber bikes for cyclists to, idk, expensive authentic copper pots for cooking fanatics. It doesn't really make that much a difference, but they like to show it off.
>>108719755to feel welcome in a community of like minded people looking for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist outside of your own group bubble
>>108719755To write down useful stuff for further reference.Oh, I mean [insert meme answer here]!
>>108719755It might be useful if you're a really serious researcher researcher building a "knowledge base"I have never ever felt a need to connect two notes together though.
i use my phone to keep a grocery list because i only go shopping once per week. i used to use the notes app on my iphone but my new motorola didn't come with a notes app. obsidian was the first result when i searched for android notes app. i'm having a hard time understanding what went so horribly wrong in op's life that this series of pathetically mundane events has caused him so much distress. i can only assume his father held him down while his uncles and cousins all ran a train on him for days on end when he was nine.
>>108719949Yeah man I just nonchalantly googled a technology forum to shitpost on and 4chan.org/g/ was the first result, that's the only reason I'm here
>>108719986you made the right choice.
>>108719755Do you niggers have to make this same thread every week?
>>108719755I wanted to track all my soulhacking in XBC3 so I had Claude Code download information from XBC wikis for all the enemies I needed to kill and all the things I needed to do to level up the skillsI also got some help making the .base file so I could see everything at a glance and update it in a big spreadsheethttps://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/users/adiabatic/words/computing/ai/prompts/soulhacking-tracker-in-obsidian/>>108720052nobody made this thread last week, I checked
>>108719755I used it to record iterated prompts for chatgpt smut and image generation
>>108720218have sex nigga
>>108719755notes?!
>>108719755Documenting the IT set up at work.I remember when I took over this shit (with no professional experience or training focused, specifically, on IT), and just trying to figure things out as I went. So in an effort not to fuck over the next person to do my job, I have notes that go from "here is bulleted list of everything we need to continue to function" with links to notes like, "here is a list of our DNS records, and what each one is for," with links to notes like, "so you don't know what a DNS is? let's get you started..."So if a technical person takes over, they can just go through the implementation and configuration details they need. They don't need to look at the general background knowledge. If a technical person with a different background takes over, they can figure out the importance of things they don't recognize using the expanded notes. And if a non-technical person is thrust into the enviable position of, "make sure this doesn't catch fire," they have the full baby-walkthrough of everything.
>>108720248
>>108720279anon, they are going to hire some indian to do your job because you wrote everything downstupid
>>108720319Good, I really need a fucking sabbatical, because this shit sucks.I have amazing industry connections in this niche though, and there will be places that don't have their shit together yet.
>>108719755Closed source but cannot compete with OneNote. Feels extremely reddit-centric and it even has a retarded community around it. Obsidian is a really bloated electron app, so at that point why not use VSCode and one of the markdown notes plugins? Mobile apps don’t even have a native canvas, and rely on some community plugin. They make their money by charing for sync,
>>108719755Gateway to org mode
>>108719949>i can only assume his father held him down while his uncles and cousins all ran a train on him for days on end when he was nine
>>108720345>plain-text markdown files and YAML files can’t compete with a binary format that’s probably really messy XML in a zipfile
>>108719949I use neovim in termux whenever I wanna write down a noteI don't need more bloat by installing a dedicated note taking app
i use nano because vim is bloat
>>108720598It doesn’t compete with OneNote in features, yes. If you’re just going to be working with markdown files, why suffer the bloat of Obsidian on top? Useless software.
>>108720759I can't speak about the mobile version, but on PC I really like the community plug-ins for Obsidian. I do agree that it's bloated and slow overall, but it's not bad enough for me to drop it.
>>108720776>I really like the community plug-ins for ObsidianI just looooooove running unvetted plugins from literally-whos
>>108720759OneNote is far better but it's also abandonware at this point. Everyone who created it left Microsoft and the poo there now has no idea how to maintain it. The native desktop program was last updated with Office 2016 and its replacement "OneNote for Windows 10", a UWP app, has been deprecated and no longer is supported. I'm very wary of continuing to use it, even for local storage.
>>108720759>If you’re just going to be working with markdown files, why suffer the bloat of Obsidian on top?having specialized keyboard shortcuts for Markdown writing is useful, like being able to do option-command-1 to put in a first-level heading>>108720796that one database plugin I used, along with a gazillion other people, and was as thoroughly vetted as axios probably (but with fewer malware distribution attempts) was pretty coolbase is better though
>>108721350The OneNote desktop app is now part of Microsoft 365. Not deprecated, not unsupported. The only negative thing I can say is that looking at the roadmap, the only upcoming features include "Copilot" in the name. It's also still regularly updated on iOS/iPad.
I just use Google Keep and it just works on all my devices.
>>108719755>it’s essentially a markdown editor>the more journal esque and fancy features extend markdown, ie lock-in, ie you dont want to use it>if you stick with normal markdown you… might as well use vs code that you’re already using, what with being a nig/g/eri dont get the value proposition. maybe it being available on phones?
>>108721523There’s even VSCode plugins for ‘note management’ with markdown. Another freetard option is Joplin. Unlike Obsidian it is FOSS, and similarly it’s just markdown and the creator generates income by selling a sync service.
>>108719755Idk, maintaining this shit is too much work against just keeping paper notes. Can make easy to-learn lists, but understandings of things are shifting and again, maintaining becomes too much work
>>108719755A local/internal wiki for your own video game. It's especially good for worldbuilding. >>1087207961. I do vet them2. I don't auto-update them
>>108719755I use it at work to make internal writeups of projects, though I don't make any use of its conneced-notes feature, for me its basically just a text editor which is less annoying than word and has more features than notepad(++). Its Kanban plugin is also good, really helps with managing the buttload of tasks I'm given on a daily basis.And its very good for worldbuilding.
>>108719755writing down recipes, storywriting lore and worldbuilding, code snippets, project specs i will forget three months later and need to slam at the client's face.
>>108719755It's primarily for running a high level dox database / "knowledge base" against entities and corporations moreso than individuals. basically you are the PI and the point of Obsidian is to use it to store all your case information
>>108719869graphs like this make me want to sudoku. I'm trying hard to force tree shaped graphs to make them human readable while there are still obsidian links for the LLM.
>>108722648jesse what the fuck are you talking about?
>>108719755Is that a rock or a mineral?
>>108723293wrong
offline/private wiki for world building
>>108719755people who want to build a second brain but don't have their first one
>>108722246Can't really edit or ctrl+f paper notes though.
>>108721523I don't like vscode
it's the only good note taking app. shame it's so bloated.
>>108723449there are others.
>>108723471care to fill me in? every note app I've used requires an account, more bloated than obsidian, or simply has an atrocious UI.
>>108720218Wait Claude can work in line with Obsidian? Shit I might have to set it up to track a few Fansly Uploaders.
>>108719815> Using a note taking app to take notesHuh, me too. Fucking outlandish.
>>108719755I use it to document every meeting i have with a customer. Then i connect claude code to the repository and can easily generate reports.
>>108723497NTA but I've been using Obsidian for years without any plugins, so I've thought about moving to orgmode recently since from my understanding it does effectively the same thing with less bloat. Only problem, however, is learning the mandarin-like language that is emacs and so forth.
>>108723681>i will learn a whole new tool because muh bloatwhat fucking bloat? its a text editor for markdown you stupid fuckwhat difference does it make if it has some dumb shit like graphs if you never use those? is your computer struggling with an app needing 300 mb ram?
>>108723783Learning is fun you gigantic fucking retard. You can get emacs anywhere and you can tell it to do things that obsidian could only dream of doing. plus, you don't need a single dedicated application for note taking since I'm learning to edit files/configs with emacs as well.
>>108719869>Muh collective porn knowledge
>>108723558Obsidian just works on Markdown files with some JSON configuration and now YAML .base filesYou know what else works great with Markdown? LLMs
>>108725757>OneNote + Copilot:|>Le heckin' reddit-flavoured-markdown + LLM (Claude, of course):O
it fulfills its purpose.Wish it didn't use el*ctron, but oh well.
>>108726354I could not care less if Reddit likes itShould you like vegetarianism more or less just because Hitler liked it?
>>108727095The man did inspire me to give up meat, so...
>>108719869>might be useful if you're a really serious researcher researcherThis is the most reddit tier shit I have ever heard when it comes to obsidian. If you are doing serious research, you are not using markdown in the first place. You most likely have real books/paper using zotero, writing in Latex or a WYIWYG editor such as Word. If you are doing computer shit, well then you are also using Jupyter for sharing things. I will have to give obsidian some cred for meming this (I admit it, feel for it). But it really is just a marketed copy/paste text container for your PC and nothing else. >>108720279No, let the pajeet deal with my "undocumented" mess that only works as long I'm getting paid. This is why I love paper, I can just shred or burn it and it's not logged anywhere.
>>108719755Useless. Over complex for no reason. Plenty of better choices. For one, don't be a chud and host your own server with nextcloud.
>>108727322You're retarded.
>>108719755Anyone remember the guy who catalogs JAVs in obsidian?
>>108727254>tfw taking a break from writing latex notes with several zotero windows open on the second monitorGood to know I'm a serious researcher(tm)Also I don't like all the wording obsidian uses on its website. It makes it sound like just writing down a note immediately makes it like some immutable "knowledge" of yours. Like if I download a book off libgen I just immediately have it learned because it's now sitting on my hard drive
i started vibecoding an app to attach notes and links with videos to a big knowledge file.(no, not javs)then i realized i could do this with obsidian.the only difficult thing is copying and pasting files in doesn't reference them. Using symlinks for now, that way obsidian notes can embed videos but not duplicate gb videos file
>>108719755I use it for my DnD campaigns
>>108729654You can copy paste images and such into obsidian and it will copy the file (or image buffer if it's screenshot in the clipboard and similar) into the vault. Makes a copy if you already had the file lying around somewhere else, but the vaults try to be self contained so that's expected
I use it to store information about how I have had to unfuck things in my home lab / Linux / 3d printers etc. Good to refer to with things inevitably fuck up again.
>>108719755never heard of this and after searching because of OP's post I instantly installed because its exactly something I needed because I kept various random notes on various random places and couldn't ever find anything, thanks
>>108719755Still saves in plaintext, unlike the competition which have been poisioned by VC money.
Does this support handwriting notes?
>>108723569>t. uses dude wipes
>>108730762elaborate
>>108719949Way too specific of an assumption.Wanna sit down and talk about something, faggot?
>>108730662No. It relies on some excalidraw community plugin, but it’s nothing like OneNote or even Apple Notes.
>>108730762>>108730872fucking kek
>>108719755>make LLM instructions on how to organize my shit>make the LLM make Python scripts that will do the dumb but heavy computing to save on tokens>make the instructions use those scripts>write down rough notes through the day>make the LLM organize everything, add tags and links and what not>add excalidraws to some of the docs>occasionally read back some of this content to help me memorize my shit>use LLM to quickly fetch info>>108720707>>108720759The "bloat" is useful for quick navigation. That's what sets it apart from text editors.
