So a friend of mine recommended Obsidian ages ago and I looked at it but thought I was happy using Joplin (another text-based note tool) which I still think is a great app. Took a brief look at it and thought it was just too complicated…
Then recently, I went down a youtube rabbit hole watching videos of how people use Obsidian… OMG 🤯
Now I have 2x Vaults, one for work and one personal. Dataview, templater, quickadd, periodic notes have just changed everything. Now I have documents for each person at work with their basic info and then when I make a meeting, I can just tag them which then updates a dataview table that shows what meetings I've been in with them.
Tasks allows me to just create a bunch of todos in random notes and then I can create a table to show all my undone tasks.
I mean, why did I wait so long? I've been using it for about 10 days now and it's been such a game changer. Sorry Joplin.
I know right, the extensibility of Obsidian is jaw dropping. The fact that Excalidraw does what it does and saves those mofos as a JSON! I mean 😭
The Samsung s-pen app (note or whatever its called) is much smoother for drawing but they’re not vectors and its export options are truly pathetic. If Excalidraw could posses the smooth responsiveness of that app though, man I would do something drastic… like subscribe to Obsidian Sync lol
What theme you running friend?
Yeah the fact that it saves into JSON files is ridiculous. xD
I was using Minimal for the longest time, now I’m on a modified version of Tokyo Night. I just needed the contrast to look a bit punchier.
Kinda wish that Obsidian integrated handwriting into the canvas like Logseq has done with their whiteboard… it would be so cool