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Re:Why I Like Obsidian by benhurmarcel on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @11:43AM (#39030100)
I think it’s pretty likely that a lot of Obsidian users use it for their professional activity without paying.

Personally I haven’t considered it because of that. I have no use for a complex notes app in my private life, and there’s no way my employer would pay for the subscription.

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Re:Why I Like Obsidian by theshrike79 on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @12:39PM (#39030864)
> I have no use for a complex notes app in my private life

I thought so too, but then I noticed I was searching the internet for the same things over and over again. (Or asking it from GPT).

Then I started writing stuff down as I searched it, with a sentence or two of my own text + a few tags.

Now I can find stuff directly from Obsidian (or more like from the set of markdown files on my drive) instead of having to sweep the internet _again_ for the same thing.

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Re:Why I Like Obsidian by eternityforest on Wednesday January 17, 2024 @06:07PM (#39034898)
That really belongs in the browser I think. Ideally we could just highlight the info we want to save, type a note, and the whole page gets saved offline as plain HTML, along with a markdown file that points to it.

Pocket is about as close as it gets it seems...

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Re:Why I Like Obsidian by machomaster on Thursday January 18, 2024 @12:02AM (#39038076)
You can use the combination of SingleFile ( https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/) and Obsidian/Templater for that.
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