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I've been using it on desktop for ages, and I really like it. Excited to see a mobile version too. Thanks.
@onerez I think part of this is just the cool factor for me. It looks good and feels good to use. If you already have a good note taking or writing system then there’s cost of trying something new and possibly moving to a new system. For me, I haven’t previously taken notes this regularly so it was less costly for me.
At work I would regularly take notes for a project or meeting and then they’d just sit there. Now I can link things together easily, and notes don’t go to die in folders that I never return to. Excited to delve into more journaling as well as note taking on other passions.
Thanks Ben. That makes sense. I will give it a spin as I need to take notes on projects that I work on as I forget often…. 😂
Great one @bcrichards, thanks for the link!
Full text search is essential for me, something Koder and Textastic are missing.
I wish it had WebDAV support but iCloud is better than nothing 👍🏼
@richardyot : I would say that Obsidian is flexible enough that you could have a folder hierarchy as your primary organizing scheme if that's what works for you. Then add links as you go, growing into a hybrid model. If you look at Obsidian or Roam or any of these other "second brain" type apps, they'll push the Zettelkasten methodology, which in the strictest form demands a very flat storage structure -- one folder! -- with links to provide idea structure. This doesn't work for me, so I've come up with my own scheme, which uses folders for big topics and links across topics. There are no rules. Ultimately, it's intended to be a tool for you to reflect the way you think.
I hear you, and I'm going to give it a few weeks to see if I can change my mind.
The thing is I'm already pretty happy with Notion, and Notion has one big advantage that is very important for me: it's highly visual, which for me means I find it much easier to organise. I can display my notes in thumbnail form, and for the type of notes I often create this makes a lot of sense because they contain a lot of visual information. Not the case for everyone of course, but it works really well for me.
Can we link to an existing file like a pdf on our ipad??
I see this but can’t get it to work. Maybe not on IOS?
You can embed attachment files like images or audio in your notes. Use the ![[filename.png]] syntax like so:
There’s a lot of features that don’t work on iOS, especially from the community plugins. Sliding Panes is one that seems hit or miss for me. Works on iPad, can’t get it working on iPhone. Not sure about attachments.
@onerez : I just checked PDF linking and embedding on the mobile app, which for me works the same as desktop. The PDF needs to be in your vault. I don't think you can link to PDFs stored elsewhere on your iPad due to iOS sandboxing, but I could be wrong. I also use a community plug-in called "Better PDF Plugin," which allows you to embed specific parts of a PDF. For instance, you can embed the third paragraph on page 6 of a large PDF if that's the piece that's relevant to your note. This involves defining the bounding box, which can be tedious, but that's a limitation of the PDF format, not Obsidian.
Linking to PDF, etc, without embedding works on the desktop version, but I avoid it because that defeats the portability and sync, which are the strongest points of the app for me. The last thing I want to do is pull up a note I need on my phone somewhere only to find the content missing because it's hard-linked on my desktop.
I've been working with lots of text files over the years, basically snippets of information that sometimes cannot be sorted into a clear folder structure because subjects are often mixed.
I know more fun things to do than giving tags to each text file but I have to say that after forcing myself to spend the 30 seconds to give a new file proper tags and extend them if necessary, I now find it much easier to access any text that I'm looking for.
On the Mac, my favorite is SnippetsLab because it not only supports tags but it also has a nice and fast full text search engine. And I've not even started to work with links yet.
Obsidian has full text search as well. I don't know if it's fast or not yet.
I'm kind of excited about Obsidian's granular embedding possibilities. One thing I dislike about hyperlinks is they take you completely out of the train of thought, and require either remembering to open in a new window or tab, or to navigate back to where you were. Half the time I get distracted by some other content on the linked page and further lose my train of thought.
The idea of being able to embed just a paragraph or so, then to have that paragraph automatically update if I change it in the other document seems right up my alley. Not only do I not need to worry about distractions, but I can maintain once and reuse content anywhere. I run into use-cases like this all the time.
@tja - I simply copied the files into the vault folder using the files app. They instantly showed up in the Obsidian file browser.
@tja @wim Yeah, I love the fact that you can access the vault via Files. It’s interesting that you can only use iCloud Drive or their own syncing system, though — I had no real idea that Dropbox integration into iOS/iPadOS didn’t go beyond single file access at a time!
What I didn’t like in the import process (no fault of Obsidian, BTW) was the realisation that the iPad seems to lack any text editor with “search and replace in folder” functionality, like any reasonable programming editor on a desktop. I wanted to do some regular expression processing of a bunch of old Markdown files (to atomise Bear.apps’ nested tag system, which Obsidian can’t recognise) and had to use Visual Studio Code on a Mac to do it. Outraged. Am I incredibly dumb (I even looked in Working Copy, which I use for my Git repos, and that doesn’t do replacing, only global search), or does no iPad app do this to multiple files in a folder?
@tja It definitely works for folders, as I’ve done it, but I think what you’re experiencing is Files.app simply being crap and spitting the dummy with that complex nested structure. Files.app is dumb. If you have a Mac, you could try copying to the same iCloud Drive folder.
@tja I didn’t even use separate instances; I just dragged a bunch of folders into the vault folder by hovering over the iCloud Drive icon in the source list pane and then into the Obsidian/NameOfVault folder. Mind you, they didn’t have a very deep structure — maybe 4 levels.
Actually, I remember now that I tried this using a Mac, and it didn’t work. I know how you feel about the Mac — I actually only use it for things I can’t do on an iPad, and that dumb search and replace problem was one of them. I tried using Textastic, and couldn’t figure out a way.
@tja Ah, a shell would do it, but I’m crap at that stuff. I’ve got the Blink shell — I’ll try it out next time I have that problem. Still, you’d think that with all that power, an iPad would be able to do something that basic. Perhaps it’s a filesystem API restriction?
MEANWHILE, I AWAIT A STUPID PROGRESS BAR FOR COPYING FILES.
@tja Now that I think about it, I got your “forbidden” sign when I tried dragging those same folders into the vault folder on a Mac! WTF is up with iCloud Drive?
@tja - on the Mac you can use Open Another Vault > Open Folder as Vault to choose an existing folder of markdown files. I don't see this option on the iOS version. I don't think they've gotten as far as integrating with the iOS file system. My guess is they will get there eventually though. This is an early release.
Anyway, maybe this is a way to test your existing markdown files (on the Mac). According to the documentation, your files will be left alone, but an ".obsidian" folder will be created to store your configuration, etc.. So if you're leery of working on the existing folder then you might want to make a copy of it and work on the copy instead.
No, it's not an import. It's simply looking at the folder in-place. If the iPad can't see that folder then it will not be able to open the vault. Your only way of making it visible on the iPad is to successfully copy that folder to the Obsidian folder on iCloud. Why you can't do that is an Apple mystery as already noted.
I like it on the Mac. My preferred workflow when anything has to do with a lot of typing is to work on the Mac. That everything syncs in near real-time to my iOS devices is cool and very useful. Same for Textastic.
btw, there is a Windows (& Linux) version too.
There's an installer for the full MacOS version on https://obsidian.md.