#obsidian

looking for some #Logseq alternatives. am a (mostly) happy Logseq user, but there are a few friction points and i’d be willing to consider something new.

looking for something that is…

block based (goes for editing, tagging, embedding, transcluding, etc)
a not awful mobile experience (i don't do a ton of entry on mobile, but i do like to reference things from time to time)
offline capable (i can deal if something is cloud based if it's e2ee and available offline, online-only tools are a non-starter)
no AI crap (or at least be easy to turn off, and not a core/integral part of the thing)

stuff i've tried: Obsidian, Anytype (though this was a while ago, admittedly), Craft, Notion, DEVONthink

boosts appreciated!

#PKM #PKMS #Logseq #Obsidian #Anytype #Notion #DEVONthink #software

@bitprophet weird, I always hear Sync being very reliable.
Anyone know anything #Obsidian

About a day into having migrated my #Obsidian vault back to iCloud Drive based syncing. So far so good but obviously any intermittent sync problems will take a while to be noticeable.

Pro tip: a common issue here is preventing the OS from 'optimizing storage' by nuking infrequently touched files from the local disk. macOS has a blanket “just don't fucking do that for anything in iCloud Drive”, iOS/iPadOS require you to set it on a per-folder basis.

@fluxmind I've started using #Obsidian for taking notes from our #ttrpg game. Adding links meta tags makes it much easier to track all the NPCs, locations, factions and their members, etc.

Ooohh, I just discovered the stacked tabs feature in #Obsidian. Amazing. It's like PaperWM for notes!

On a related note, what theme are you using? I went with Primary for a while but right now I'm using Mono High Contrast.

Have been writing an TTRPG adventure in obsidian recently. Ive written tons and tons of adventures over the years and I love obsidian, but this is the first time the two have overlapped.

Pretty interesting actually. Has changed how I chunk data, with intralinks and such.

Essentially making it a wiki.

I kinda love it tbh.

That and graph view for when you pieces that you haven't filled out yet and you see them as nodes all by their lonesome.

#obsidian #ttrpg

Some fun indie/cozy-web directories:

For those whose websites:
- have a /now/ page: https://nownownow.com/

- have a /uses/ page: https://uses.tech/

- use Obsidian to publish: https://obsidian-gallery.craftengineer.com/

Are there any other directories folks have seen?

#Cozyweb #Obsidian #IndieWeb #Now #Uses

https://github.com/LuigiCerone/obsidian-water-tracker

This is an Obsidian plugin that easily allows you to track your water intake.

The plugin creates a button in the Obsidian ribbon. You can configure the button to list what type of drink you've had–for example, water or coffee—and the plugin can also be configured to list your water intake in a daily–note file.

The GitHub repository lists a dataviewjs code example to display liquid intake in a file.

#Obsidian #plugin #water #tracker

I might also experiment with reverting from #Obsidian native sync back to iCloud-based sync, though I went the other way early on, because iCloud had its own issues (typically, not /enough/ syncing, it would frequently just stop syncing that folder entirely for hours or days at a time).

But if I'm supremely lucky maybe that iCloud issue (which was mostly on the Mac side) was specific to the version of macOS I was on at the time?

Now, #Obsidian /has/ added tools /around/ this problem in the last year+, so if I’m lucky enough to catch the issue before I've made further edits to the note, it’s pretty quick to view diff history and restore previous version.

But that's a big "if”; it happens so quietly and frequently I often can’t catch it til after subsequent edits, and then it's an actual pain in the ass to disentangle

Plz 2 make sync a li'l smarter and/or let me put a client in read-only mode!

#Obsidian sync is getting /so/ bad I'm starting to think about drastic measures

Constant instances of one of my mobile devices deciding to push its older copy of random notes (as in - notes I am 110% /not opening or editing on that device in any way/) and the merge resolver going “sweet, thanks!" - now a random subset of sentences/list items/etc are duplicated throughout the note.

And as this happens in the background, I frequently won't notice for days or weeks.

My go to personal information management system is #obsidian.

Because all my data stays my data.

https://obsidian.md

@somecat I don't know obsidian but your blog looks neato!
(maybe tag your toot with #obsidian ?)

Seriously, this is such a basic hack, but it's been a game-changer for me. For ages, I had both #Obsidian and Google #Calendar constantly open, driving me a little crazy with all the back and forth. Now, one click and I'm there . So simple, so helpful.

https://youtu.be/jOiXCxVxP78

I thought I managed to get Obsidian working with Nextcloud sync on Android but it's trickier than I thought and it doesn't quite work... but it may work enough for my needs right now.

#obsidian #android #nextcloud

Now that I have all my #eBooks in #Obsidian, there's so many possibilities. For example, there's are, of course, plugins for reading #ePub files in Obsidian . Not to mention all other amazing #Calibre features, like setting it up to download the recent news.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/128125474

I’ve also realized that gmail is just kind if a mediocre product. The UI is clunky and the integration across account products, e.g. mail to calendar, sucks ass and can’t be easily modified. This has been my experience with most monolith services, but its taken me a while to realize that I don’t need them at all, as long as I can find a replacement host.

Looking for a way to manage a dynamic calendar across devices that isn’t google calendar, too. Maybe that can be done with #obsidian?

Hi All. PKM Weekly (May the 4th be with you) is live

#obsidian make .md plugin and Obsidian from an engineer's point of view

#logseq DB updates (no desktop app yet) and LLM

#tana App and AI updates and 7 ninja tricks

#Capacities enhancement survey, search issues

#Thymer split view

#constella - new website and quick scan

#Anytype Types, properties and templates

#appflowy, #OrcaNote and #remnote Updates

- https://ednico.substack.com/p/pkm-weekly-2025-05-04

- https://ednico.medium.com/pkm-weekly-2025-05-04-58b5917ebd8a

Thank you #pkmweekly

Weeknotes for 2025, week 18: https://denisdefreyne.com/weeknotes/2025-w18/

#Weeknotes #Berlin #InteractiveFiction #Obsidian #ObsidianMd #BearApp #Screenwriting

Ooh this is interesting. I'm using #Obsidian Canvas to stay focused on just a handful of things, and plan what's next and what I need to not forget. Loosely based on ATC flight progress strips.

The idea is that the thing you're working on _now_ should be at the top, and then progressively less important things should be smaller, and lower down.

Here I've moved them in to a 'cruising' group on the right, and shrunk their cards. So they're still there, not forgotten, but they're not the main thing I'm focusing on right now. And now I move those cards around, updating them with progress, based on what I'm doing now and next.

Ideally I'd customise this with code, but out of the box Obsidian's Canvas is good enough as a proof-of-concept.