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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by NoMoreBro on Thursday October 13, 2022 @11:20AM (#33192246)
Love Obsidian. My main problem with it and similar markdown apps for notes is the way they store images and attachments. I find it very confusing to maintain multiple files per note and IMO the only app that nailed it is FSNotes[1] using the textbundle[2] format (with a custom implementation for encrypted notes too). I think it's elegant and future-proof.

But FSNotes is for the Apple ecosystem only and I can't tie myself to a single platform for something so important (I don't need another artificial reason to make OS switching so difficult).

I hope the textbundle feature request[3] gets some love soon. It would be great for Excalidraw files integration too[4].

[1] https://fsnot.es/ [2] http://textbundle.org/ [3] https://forum.obsidian.md/t/textbundle-support/3585 [4] https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by submeta on Thursday October 13, 2022 @01:31PM (#33194058)
Absolutely agree. Very confusing to see a folder full of attachments. Ulysses app (another exmple) does this better via textbundle.
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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by jq-r on Thursday October 13, 2022 @05:15PM (#33196580)
I'm having high hopes for Bear notes v2 (called Panda in beta). It does the textbundle format which makes complete sense, and also has native pen support on iPads. So actually it is simple, and a joy to use, and also you're not locked in to anyone.
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Re:Show HN: Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app by NoMoreBro on Thursday October 13, 2022 @06:04PM (#33197043)
Wow, textbundle on disk instead of the database, right? It would be huge.

Another great feature that Bear and FSNotes share is the ability to insert hierarchy tags like #parent/child For some reason, I find it perfect to organize notes without too much thinking.

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