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  • prof@infosec.pubEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I don’t necessarily like a few takes in the comments here.

    Vibes wise the Obsidian team seems to be great and they don’t seem to have shown any reason why I should distrust them. I love FOSS but gifting others my work doesn’t put food on my table, so in that sense they need to have a lucrative business model which they seem to have established.

    I could use SyncThing, Git or other solutions to do synchronisation between my devices but I choose to buy their Sync offer, since I want to support them (they also have EU servers, which need to be GDPR compliant by law afaik).

    The closest comparison I could make is NextCloud. NextCloud open sources their software, but they sell convenience. Sure, you could self host it, but paying them to do so for you may be more attractive. In comparison Obsidian is not really complicated to set up or maintain. It’s literally just a MD-editor. So the only convenient thing to sell is synchronisation if you don’t want to put a price tag on the software.

    If they open source all their code, some tech wizard will implement a self hosted obsidian sync server with the same convenience as theirs in a day, and the company will lose their revenue stream.

    We’ve all been burned by tech bros in one way or another, but I think it’s ok for people to profit off of their IP. And they seem to be doing so with a positive vision. Feel free to let me eat my words if they ever go rogue, but that’s my 2 cents.

  • KingBoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    This post was how I learned about Obsidian.

    For those of you that love it, how do you use it daily?

    • wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Daily notes. I have a template that prompts me to fill out a number details I might otherwise forget.

      A wiki of people that helps me remember details about people I meet or have worked with. Makes it much easier to keep in touch and to remember important dates in their lives.

      Sortable todo lists, with due date and urgency information. I can add to the lists directly from any other note using a Dataview formula with the Tasks extension.

      Career plans. Project plans. Gardening plans. Recipes (there’s an awesome extension that imports recipes from the web).

      Any random writing I might want to do, from short stories to rough drafts of letters to stream of consciousness mind spew that I want to review later.

      I use the Auto Note Mover and Dataview extensions, along with backlinks and tags, to keep all of my notes organized automatically. I use the Linter extension to make sure things are formatted nicely. When I started using Obsidian, I used the Importer extension to easily pull in all of my existing notes and lists from Evernote and Google Keep.

      Honestly, that barely scratches the surface.