“I see the many advantages of Obsidian over other notes apps But I'm wondering whether it's a good choice for me given that I'm looking for a true digital cabinet - one where my few 100 notes (so not thousands) can co-exist alongside some audio recordings, lots of PDFs, images and so on. Thoughts welcome?”
“At the moment it takes just shy of a minute to open and load all the plugins. Obsidian looks amazing though, my graph is amazing and I've made 17,325 YouTube videos about my favourite plugins and how to use Obsidian as a Second Brain(tm)”
“I write a lot in markdown (using Obsidian, VS Code) and I’ve noticed I retain much less of what I wrote compared to when I used Word or LaTeX. My guess is that every file looks the same and there is no page layout to anchor things to, so I lose the cue of “where on the page was that.” I am curious whether anyone notices this and what to do about it.”
“have a central folder with an obsidian vault for each seperate profile, and use syncthing to move it down to my homelab. Security wise, I have infisical with passwords, usernames, and instructions in hermes to NEVER save anything in obsidian.”
“The extra skill doesn't replace what Obsidian's skill does. It just decides when to use the vault versus a separate reference store versus long term memory, since those are three separate things in my setup. If you're running one agent and one vault, telling Hermes to update Obsidian and letting it manage everything is simpler, and I'd probably do the same.”
“If you’re using Obsidian, just let Hermes manage the vault directly with the Obsidian skill. Mem0 is for machine‑readable facts, not human‑readable notes, and Hermes already handles the “remember things across sessions” part natively.”
“reading mode is just the default view, it's not paginated like word and that throws people off at first. i get the frustration though, if you really need that doc-style layout you could try the pandoc plugin to export to pdf with proper formatting but obsidian's strength is in the linked notes thing, not the print layout.”
“Ive currently connected Obsidian and Mem0 to my hermes set-up, what would be the best way to go about managing this, is this even a smart thing to do. And what sort of memory set-ups do you guys use?”
“It's cool that you're diving into recipes with Obsidian! The frontmatter can be really handy once you get the hang of it, especially for organizing different types of notes.”
“there are two real self-hosted CRDT options for Obsidian right now, but neither reuses your existing Linux/Nextcloud accounts, both bring their own identity layer.”
“I've been taking notes using obsidian for the list three years but I've been very frontmatter-averse up to this point, opting instead to have a meta callout with fields instead on the off chance that I might use dataviewJS if I needed some kind of searching to happen.”
“Question: should I bother reporting the Android slow start time as a bug on the forum? It seems like there's I/O happening on the UI thread, but when I replied to your comment before there was no followup once I provided the startup report.”
“Obsidian Git handles the background pull/push fine, but the moment you get a conflict on mobile it's a pain to sort out. That rebase approach keeping history linear is pretty slick, I'd use a plugin that just exposes a single sync button and a basic conflict resolver.”
“You either accept the inconvenience of having to rename multiple folders and files every time you want to move something around, or the inconvenience of not being able to browse your files with the same sorting when you're outside of Obsidian.”
“Thank you so much for this plugin - which really does bridge a huge need in Obsidian for tablet users ! One thing I can't work out (maybe just being dim !) is how to export the ink ?”
“You can enable real-time sync from the Remotely Save plugin and it works ok when I've tested it with my phone and laptop (both using Obsidian at the same time).”
“I'm running QMD with a handful of Obsidian vaults, each configured as a collection. Hermes uses the QMD MCP tools for search/query, but for other QMD operations, it uses the cli.”
“I have found obsidian very difficult to use well so far. I also haven't invested the time as much as I could. I'm hoping to do some of that over the holidays this year.”
“I use Obsidian heavily in my personal life; however, I'm about to start some consulting projects and would like some advice on taking notes and tracking tasks.”
“I have tried EVERY sync solution (syncthing, git, livesync with couchdb, built in paid sync), and all of them had issues/trade-offs. I never even thought about self hosting obsidian as a website, I didn't even know is would be possible since obsidian is closed source.”
“obsidian livesync with couchdb works pretty well for near realtime edits, but if you truly need simultaneous multi user google docs style typing obsidian will always fight you since its just local text files. for that kind of live team editing hedgedoc or affine might save you a lot of headache.”