Obsidian gets folding

Posted by bvasconcelos
May 18, 2020 at 03:03 AM

In software like this one would expect nested tags, but that is not yet in the roadmap.

Theoretically, it would be pretty easy to incorporate obsidian into the workflow since all my note are stored as markdown files inside a single folder. They rely, however, on automatic wiki linking, so this works very well as an indexed folder in DEVONthink. Even if it would be easy, then, for me to open my folder as a volt in Obsidian, I am not sure it would be useful as I would be missing out on the best feature, in my view, that is the graph view. (The graph view relies on double brackets style wiki linking.)

Apart from that, I am not sure it offers much more. The return links are nice, but that is also possible in devonthink. One also has to make an effort to set aside the fact that it is an electron-based app for, in a way, it still feels a lot like a browser. For editing the files, it feels weird to choose it over something else, like, let us say, BBEdit.

A last remark: I find it astonishing that automatic wiki linking is so underrated as a feature and how poorly disseminated it is. Apart from DT3, only VoodooPad has it. And this last one is not even worth considering at this point.