• Exec@pawb.social
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    1 year ago

    I forgot Evernote was still a thing. Used it for a short while back in 2012 when there were not many decent note taking apps.

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        God I love Obsidian. Especially the community around it.

        Obsidian honestly spoiled me with the fact that my vault is literally just a folder of markdown files.

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          I’ve been using Zim, because I wanted something that was completely brain-dead simple and also completely not in any sort of “cloud.” It’s entirely local to my hard drive. It stores its files as a folder of markdown files too.

          How non-cloudy is Obsidian? I might take a look at that.

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            It’s completely local unless you specifically opt into cloud options. There is Obsidian Sync but that’s completely optional, and your files are still on the computer. I know some people make their vaults Google Drive folders, which, again, is something you have to deliberately do.

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            100% non-cloud. There are sync options but they are completely optional. No log-in required unless you use the cloud features.

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          LogSeq

          I never heard of it until now. I’m a veteran of trying out and dumping so many note taking solutions. I’m certain to try this one, too! Maybe I’ll finally find The One.

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            It’s a timeline approach. So, I just enter notes for each day. I’ve developed a habit of just putting things down when I need, including random stuff, links to Slack conversations, etc. I then use tags to bind things together, and there are a couple of plugins in use.

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              I installed it and took a quick look. It reminds me of Obsidian’s approach. I got excited about that, too, but I found it very burdensome to use in practice. What I need is a sort of life log that grabs a lot of stuff quietly from integrations and that I can then further augment (for things like meeting notes). The problem with all of these graph approaches (for me) is that they become burdensome to manage.

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          Just started using Logseq and it has been a game changer. All other note apps I‘be used become black holes…notes go in and are never seen again. I can actually find things now with logseq. It’s helping with brain fog and getting my shit together. Can’t recommend it enough

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          So like LogSeq, Obsidian is a free note taking application which stores notes in Markdown format locally on your PC. Unlike LogSeq however, it is not open source and is designed more for long form text (LogSeq is more bullet points).

          You can check out Obsidian here

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          Obsidian.md, you need to import some community plugins to make it better (e.g. Advanced Tables, Multi Column, etc). But it’s quite fast and powerful, it doesn’t look as pretty as, say Notion, though. I love using it, you can search on youtube for some samples / tutorials, it’s quite easy to use though.

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        1 year ago

        I love Obsidian but haven’t heard of LogSeq, do you use both but for different things?

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          They are very similar. The main differences are:

          • LogSeq uses bullet points. Obsidian is just pure markdown
          • LogSeq is open source. Obsidian is closed source
          • LogSeq has a predefined structure to it (folders). Obsidian allows you to have whatever folders you want

          Personally, I use LogSeq for my day to day work. Primarily because I prefer the bullet point approach when taking notes. But some people would prefer writing long continuous text with Obsidian.

          So to each their own. If you’re interested, try both (they’re both using markdown, so you can transfer between the two). I went back and forth a few times before settling with LogSeq

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      After leaving Evernote way back when I was in the wilderness for a while. Finally landed on notesnook, haven’t gone back since.

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        Fellow Notesnook user, here. I’m enjoying it. It’s what Evernote should have been.