“im using notion at the start and find out that the service is suck, they loading my database longer when the databasw growing, so i switch to obsidian since then…”
“I was getting frustrated with onenite and googled alternatives I came across several but after watching a few videos of how obsidian can be used I saw the light”
“Some people use the Zotero plugin for Obsidian to export annotations into Obsidian. I personally don’t send any annotations over to Obsidian but I use the plugin to sync metadata and tags between Zotero and my notes for each article in Obsidian.”
“I’m not trying to completely change how my vault works because honestly I really like the folder → note → link setup I have going right now. I just want to start adding things that actually make sense as the world gets bigger.”
“Lo descubrí hace como 6 años, por querer ver videos de Notion y me aparecieron videos de "Notion vs Obsidian", me vi luego unos bideos de Obsidian, pero se me hacía feo y vacío, me tardé como tres años en retomarlo y comenzar a crear bóvedas de verdad bien estructuradas y útiles.”
“I think I was learning what Markdown is, idk how I or why I was looking into it, but I just did, so naturally, some web research (and probably some chatgpt) lead me to obsidian”
“Obsidian is a powerful and configurable... but requires more work to maintain and sharing knowledge with others is more difficult. I want this to be a super easy way for agents to connect to my knowledge, and make it easy for me to share my chunks of knowledge with my teammates and their agents.”
“It’s helped me write dataviewjs queries, it has helped set up the templates that I use, it suggested a backup process (Remotely Save) using an old web server I have on the floor behind me, it helped me migrate from Notion to Obsidian (working on SharePoint) and so on. But no content.”
“I keep PDF's local using ZotMoov and then make a symbolic the local Zotero PDF directory in my vault via a symbolic link so the PDF's are accessible via Obsidian. I can then use PDF++ plugin in obsidian to make annotations.”
“Thats a shame because obsidian is where I want to keep all my readings, especially so I can link them (via pdf++) when I quote them. If there was an app like Gn that edited the file where it is instead of making a copy, then I could use both apps on the same file.”
“I don't use Obsidian for organizing the actual PDFs, but for organizing my reading notes as a big annotated bibliography database. Each article/chapter/etc gets a note with all the metadata as frontmatter including subject-related tags; the body contains all my annotations, quotes, and/or a log line summarizing why I might refer to this in the future.”
“Fundamentally, Obsidian is an extensible Markdown file editor with auto-adjusting Linking capabilities. You can do so much with it, but first, master the basics by starting with these:”
“There is no set up with Obsidian, really. Just use it and figure out what's useful. Don't pay attention to the wanna-be influencers and YouTubers trying to sell you a damn course on the perfect set-up for productivity.”
“I opened the Vault for the first time and it hung. I then tried to add a few hundred files at a time. The indexing took a few days. I couldn't open the Vault, it would just hang.”
“I am very happy with obsidian now but it was definitely a process. I’ve used most of the note taking apps out there & obsidian is by far my favorite now that it’s set up.”
“I used Obsidian in its simplest form... with zero wikilinks or even hashtags for a long time before I did anything fancy. The the sheer ability to "search" on filenames was good enough...the extra structure came years later.”
“Your vault will only work if it works around how YOU operate. And I get you may not know how that may be or how to make Obsidian work along with you, but that takes time.”
“Don't build first. Just start taking notes and recording things. When you discover you have a need for something, then go look and find it, or implement something.”
“Nice, this is a problem I've run into too — hotkey plugins in Obsidian still feel a bit clunky for quick capture. Good that Type stays simple instead of trying to do more.”