This is an incredible time for knowledge management tools. Just a couple of years ago I was pulling my hair out trying to get a local wiki to feel like a native app, and now we have a dozen great options to choose from.
I started using Obsidian when it came out last year, and it instantly clicked for me. I immediately migrated 20 years of notes to it.
What differentiates Obsidian from all of the other tools in this area, is that they have made extensibility a top priority. The sheer breadth of plugins, themes, and other community-driven tools that have been generated in 18 months is spectacular. It makes it easy to recommend Obsidian because you can shape it into whatever you want.
There are a handful of plugins like Dataview, QuickAdd, Kanban and Periodic Notes that make Obsidian an incredibly powerful environment for thought.
Obsidian is great but I still prefer VSCode for creating these types of interconnected markdown notes on desktop.
Mainly because of the sheer amount of extensions available for VS Code. For example, I can write Jupyter notebooks in markdown files and let them be part of my notes but also open them as notebooks and execute code right in VS Code.
I do love Obsidian mobile though, undefeated on mobile!
Can concur, his Minimal theme is really awesome and looks Mac-native.
His theme played a huge part in getting me to make the jump from Bear Notes to Obsidian as I try to move away from Mac-specific apps to cross-platform (macOS and Linux) options.
I made a Windows 98/2000 theme for Obsidian which feels faster because animations are disabled and have more Thanks to Electron that I could do that. It was mentioned in the previous thread by its creator that because it's Electron you could make a css to make it look like anything you want.
the perspective that software is good because it's soft- as in malleable- is nice to hear.
i too feel like the more open-potential endlessly extensible form of computing is what's interesting & compelling. it's ehy computing appealed to me & still is. contrasting to computing as mechanization, big systems, & mass market software, where focus is on control & usually core, well planned user flows. this is boring rigidware. yet it's share of computing has radically risen. good to hear of syccessful flexible software in the world.
Ooh your the created of the Minimal theme, I really like the theme. Started using obsidian at the end of last month. Its definitely a new way for taking notes for me personally.
I started using Obsidian when it came out last year, and it instantly clicked for me. I immediately migrated 20 years of notes to it.
What differentiates Obsidian from all of the other tools in this area, is that they have made extensibility a top priority. The sheer breadth of plugins, themes, and other community-driven tools that have been generated in 18 months is spectacular. It makes it easy to recommend Obsidian because you can shape it into whatever you want.
There are a handful of plugins like Dataview, QuickAdd, Kanban and Periodic Notes that make Obsidian an incredibly powerful environment for thought.
I made a theme for Obsidian called Minimal that attempts to make the app feel more native, especially on Mac: https://github.com/kepano/obsidian-minimal
...and published a couple of my own plugins and a Web Clipper bookmarklet: https://gist.github.com/kepano/90c05f162c37cf730abb8ff027987...
The Obsidian community is just so fun, friendly, and collaborative, that you can't help but get involved and work on making the ecosystem better.