Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files

Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by bambax on Sunday October 17, 2021 @01:38PM (#28898200)

It would be extremely easy to replace storing in a db with append to a text file. (As a matter of fact it already appends everything to a text file for added security...)

However I kind of like the fact that it's hard to edit, and I (almost) never do it. It's a log -- the log of my brain.

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Re:Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain ... by bambax on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:36AM (#28903113)

Also, append (or prepend) to a text file means everything is in the order it was written. But sometimes I miss a day and then come back to write about days out of order (I write about Tuesday, then about Monday).

With a db it is trivial to order posts either in the order of the days or in the write order, etc. With only a text file that would be very difficult.

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