“i am not interested in learning to code on obsidian, moving and reorganizing a decade-plus of files from google is more than enough for me to take on.”
“Obsidian can be fantastic for a certain type of person, to get to notion functionality it won't be nearly as seamless as notion. It will frustrate you. Ai is a pain.”
“Much better editor of the actual note text than the built in one. It's the core feature of the whole obsidian, I suppose, and for me the default one is quite bad and I don't see an alternative.”
“Every productivity app had so much enshittification with AI stuffed down my throat that even though I love AI, I stopped going into those apps. Agents and shit.”
“keeping faster-whisper or whisper.cpp sitting idle burns anywhere from 1.5gb to 3gb of vram constantly, which sucks if you just opened obsidian to tick off two checkboxes. the trickier edge case you will hit with daemon management in obsidian is handling zombie child processes and port collisions when reloading the app without closing the background server.”
“does anyone have a recommendation for transferring onenote data to obsidian that's easier than copy pasting everything? I've been wanting to switch out of onenote for a while but I have so many years of data I don't want to lose.”
“You claim to be a tech guy, and cannot set up simple sync between devices. Syncthing and git are pretty simple, but you cannot figure it out? Something's sus here.”
“That’s a good point, but digital tools like Obsidian can still be really effective for organizing thoughts and accessing materials quickly. It might be worth experimenting with both methods to see what works best for you.”
“- Obsidian is the best program for notes imo, it has hundreds of useful plugins with which you can do anything (sometimes some configuration or programming knowledge is needed but only for really advanced / highly automated tasks) and you can customize it however you like.”
“Zotero is way more intuitive to use than trying to force Obsidian into doing what Zotero does by default. Once they're integrated, Zotero would always be my first stop for notes on any article, essay, or book (that you can obtain digitally, at least).”
“Obsidian has a learning curve, which might not be ideal right before an exam. Instead, consider using a tablet with note-taking apps like GoodNotes or Samsung Notes.”
“I'm pretty new to Obsidian and just started using it often this year for college, as a way to have notes and assignements, and most importantly a way to file everything I read and annotate.”
“Like guys I have never taken any digital notes my current notes are mainly physical, but I have been facing some bottle neck with managing these things , I had heard of notion and obsidian but never used them”
“Obsidian, your notes are yours forever, since they are simple text files they are future-proof, works 100% online, you can make it as simple or as complicated as you want, you have full control not only over your notes but also customization to make it fit your needs.”
“You do NOT need Obsidian plug-ins. It's feature rich and most bases are covered. Hence I recommend getting the minimal plug in amount to survive for particular contexts you want then switch them off otherwise.”
“Obsidian and Notion are different classes of products, with different use cases that they serve. It sounds like you are trying to do the whole square peg in round hole.”
“As much as I loved Notion and was heavy into it, two things made me jump to Obsidian. Backing up Obsidian is as simple as copy / paste the vault folder. Obsidian is fully offline from the beginning.”
“If you’re good with Claude or Codex you can have them set up Obsidian just as you like it! I rely on a javascript script that Claude made for me that auto formats my titles.”
“After I got Notebook Navigator and used the 3 pane view, Obsidian became the clear winner. That is before Omnisearch and Email to Obsidian basically gave me back every Evernote feature I care for.”
“If you want something fast, private, where you actually own your files, and has stupidly good linking for study, I’d pick Obsidian. The initial setup can be a bit of a rabbit hole.”