Obsidian gets folding

Posted by MadaboutDana
May 15, 2020 at 09:02 AM

“sparks joy” – that’s a lovely phrase, perfectly describing the thrill felt by a veteran CRIMPer when s/he encounters an app that is a genuine pleasure to use! UX is still vastly underestimated by many programmers. If you want your users to use your app every day, for hours at a time, focus on UI/UX (no matter how many clever/powerful features you’ve incorporated into your app).

It’s a pleasure to watch NotePlan (originally a singularly uninspiring UX) develop into a well-rounded app that “sparks joy”. Mind you, there are one or two bugs in the very latest version (which does the Typora thing of instantly converting Markdown into a rich-text lookalike). But it still sparks joy!

Luhmann wrote:
Version 0.5.0 was still a bit hard to use, but 0.5.1 which just came out
>feels pretty solid if anyone has been holding off giving Obsidian a try.
>Personally, I still need to wait to see how the editor evolves. It
>works, but I wouldn’t say that using it “sparks joy” yet. Hopefully that
>will come.