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Re:Ideal Note-Taking Platform? by filterfiber on Friday November 24, 2023 @03:34PM (#38407939)
Obsidian with plugins!!!!

You can create some very powerful workflows with dataviewer, properties and templates.

Whatever note taking style you want really, automatically moving them to folders, etc.

I highly recommend using unique notes with tags to start with, you can reorganize it as you need.

I have #snippets for code snippets, #walkthrough, #todo. Theres plugins to automatically move these to folders if you want.

Notes can easily link or embed each other too, so going from bug -> bug -> project isn't an issue. And creating glossaries is super easy with dataviewer.

Bookmarks for glossary's and searching with tags a keywords makes it easy to find what you're looking for even if its in a pile. And properties let you mark things like "completed: false" for todo items.

The best part: All of your notes are markdown, so you can easily move them elsewhere if needed.

Re:Ideal Note-Taking Platform? by jacobroyquebec on Friday November 24, 2023 @03:44PM (#38408061)
Great to know, I always read that people dislike Obsidian for being closed-source. It's also not self-hosted by default, but seems possible with a sync plugin. Thanks, I will look into it!
Re:Ideal Note-Taking Platform? by filterfiber on Friday November 24, 2023 @04:55PM (#38408805)
Yeah the client is unfortunately closed source.

The only reason I'm okay with that is that it's a client side application that works with markdown, and their schema for "canvas" is opensource.

> It's also not self-hosted by default, but seems possible with a sync plugin.

I've been very happy with the git plugin for syncing personally, I know many people recommend syncthing. I think there's some obstacles for iphone support specifically although I don't use it on mobile.