“Phones cannot handle it like desktop and they keep overthrowing and restarting obsidian from memory. But that's my personal experience and my phone has 8gb of ram”
“I would personally recommend Obsidian. Might be a bit bias OFC. Just the fact that you have the files itself is a big plus. I myself really value plain text files that are stored locally, not only for notes but also configs and stuff.”
“I was afraid of Obsidian complexity until AI, which makes either very easy to configure setup for your needs. You don’t need deep dive into this plugin research hole if you don’t want to, or easily create plugins for you to add ANY functionality you are missing.”
“Obsidian requires more manual setup as you’ve noticed with plugins but vastly more customizable. Notion is mostly ready to go as is but you have limited control.”
“Obsidian is kind of a different beast. I am enjoying markdown, and the fact that it saves its files locally is a big plus in terms of security and continuity (even if it makes sorting folders and files a bit more annoying), but it does have a layer of complexity that I don't know if I want to deal with in the long term.”
“I wanted to ask Claude on my phone things like "what did I write about X?" or "add these interview notes to the Acme file" and have it just work against my Obsidian notes.”
“You can store your PDFs in Zotero and then annotate them in Obsidian. Another good plugin is TaskNotes for task management/pomodoro/calendar sync etc.”
“I’ve never met an engineer that doesn’t know what obsidian is and how to use it already so it’s suspicious. For “a tech guy” markdown should be completely natural to him so it doesn’t sound like he actually is.”
“i have the best obsidian workflow i have ever seen, and i havent tinkered with it in probably 18 months. i use a variety of automations and integration with nvim.”
“Because of that, I'm not into the aspect of "taking random notes" that Obsidian excels at, but I am considering a hibrid approach, just to get all of the logs, or more in-depth knowledge for a certain project in Obsidian.”
“One of the things I really like about Obsidian is that the vault is just a directory of files so it's very easy to automate things with tools like N8N or simple scripts”
“I view obsidian on phone or laptop all the time, but laptop for any significant editing. I did get a keyboard for the iPad but haven’t tried hard enough to make it work well to say fairly that it does not work well.”
“Sorta unbelievable how great Obsidian is getting on mobile. I have some really complicated notes full of various kinds of javascript, and they all open and scroll flawlessly on mobile. Wouldn't have expected this when I started using the beta on iOS years ago!”
“Still love Obsidian more than Notion. I use notion at work with my clients as the collaboration feature is great for that. But for note taking, hard to beat the simplicity of Obsidian, because yes, at its core, it is simple, but you can make it as complicated as you need/want.”
“So I am using Obsidian for 2-3 years now. After chatGPT was launched I was looking for a way to integrate this in my note taking experience. This i did via trying some communitiy plugins for chatgpt and via an API key.”
“Obsidian is by far one of the best learning tools out there, I get if all you’re doing is managing shopping lists then obsidian isn’t for you, but it does so much more than notion, it’s got better relationships between the notes, it’s visually pleasing and if you are any good at your backlinks, the whole thing trumps all competitors.”
“My brain automatically leans towards multiple, but I'm finding A. That I'm working less in obsidian overall when I have to switch vaults so often to do so and B. While there are definitely things being stored in there that don't need to interact with each other, figuring out where to actually draw the line between two vaults gets weird with my specific interests/workflow/tasks.”
“Once I discovered Obsidian I moved on and happy ever since. With the plugins in Obsidian you can do much more then will ever be possible with OneNote. So for me the choice is clear...”
“Yo usé Onenote pero por la sincronización lo deje. Ahora uso Obsidian. Pero estos días le di una revisada a Shizumu, es ligera, rápida, organizada por día, no piensas donde guardar, solo entras y escribes, pero para organizarte tiene Pins y Trails, lo mejor es también exportable ya que hace todo en SQLite...”
“If you are thinking on turning your vault into a personal wiki connected to an LLM as your assistant to interconnect those notes and access that knowledge base, I’d rather do it in a separate vault.”
“I saw all the organization guru’s (Para, Ace, etc.) say one place but Obsidian isn’t designed well for that today. You can’t easily setup isolated instances to keep search to work or home … have a daily note go to each… etc.”
“Its super fast compared to Notion, and due to all the files being markdown and local, you can have a copy of it on a usb drive, or on a secure cloud, or anywhere, that data is completely yours and away from prying eyes on the internet”
“Don't overdo it with plugins. Less is more. Use Obsidian as a secondary backup for helping you retrieve that which should first be encoded in your first brain to begin with. Do ALL your homework problems on your own.”
“Ive been using Obsidian in combination with Claude, and have a pretty big Vault with different Sub-Vaults, one for Uni, Job & Applications, Projects, etc.. Was wondering if it made sense to keep on going with this structure or to restructure into entirely new, specialized Vaults”
“Where Obsidian excels, and differentiates from Notion, is my ability to see the folder structure on my machine without having to open various files individually. Since Notion is good with linking to external resources (e.g.”
“Are there any plugins, workflows, or ways to connect Obsidian with other apps that you’d recommend for improving productivity? I’m mainly looking for ways to manage my notes, coursework, projects, tasks, and general organization.”
“It depends, for me the critical factors were: AI editability, not having to depend on Microsoft's terrible sync system across devices, and better speed and modular customizability (you can keep Obsidian as simple as notepad or as complex as an IDE).”
“obsidian does it too, and the file is plain text so it will outlive both apps and any subscription decision, which is the real argument for it. not plugins, not graphs.”
“Obsidian is a very powerful note app, but it’s unique, especially if you aren’t used to front matter, YAML, JS, and takes some time to learn regardless.”
“So a local folder which can be accessed on mobile was only solvable though Obsidian Sync (most elegant solution still) else a manual push and pull or something like that. I'm not on frontend, I'm a data analyst.”
“Obsidian is by thousand-miles better than notion, you are operating in a vault which is just a folder with one subfolder which is .obsidian folder. You know what that means, right?”