Obsidian gets folding

Posted by bvasconcelos
May 26, 2020 at 01:01 AM

Paul Korm wrote:
I’m confused. If a feature wasn’t there before but is not, then it’s >new (in most universes)—“should have been there” is not relevant.

I expressed that to me it was relevant. You expressed that you feel otherwise. I think this is all there is to it. Each one has its own priorities and access to financial resources to access digital products. To illustrate my point: had it been released a couple of months from now, I would not have been able to access a feature that was listed, but not included in earlier versions.

>I think you’re confusing Tinderbox with something else. There was never >a tick box in Tinderbox for [[wiki links]]. There has been a setting >like this in DEVONthink preferences since at least the early days of v2.

Take a look at this thread in the Tinderbox forum and you will better understand what I was taking about. Perhaps I didn’t make it clear enough, but I am not confused at all. It had a checkbox in the preferences to turn on wiki links, that is, to underline them and put them to work. The only problem was: it didn’t work. At all. (Bear in mind that wiki links are not the same thing as quick links, as Mark clearly explains.)

http://forum.eastgate.com/t/wiki-links-loose-their-formatting/2313

>Ziplinks work in Tinderbox regardless of style applied to the note.
>Tinderbox does not edit external files—RTF or plain text or anything >else. Maybe you’re thinking of DEVONthink in this case also?

No. I am merely expressing dislike for the rtf format since my notes are all in markdown. I never mentioned nor implied that it could edit external files. (Even though it can watch folders.)

Luhmann wrote:
I believe you are talking about something completely different.
>DevonThink uses AI to analyse your entire document and looks for similar >documents. This is similar to Google’s “page rank.” I don’t recall >voodoo pad having this feature.
>

It really has nothing to do with this. I already shared a link that shows how auto wiki links work and how it can be used to create a glossary/dictionary for reading ancient texts written in highly inflected forms (something that the aliases feature takes care of). Back links are also useful, of course. It allows you to go back to whence the reference occurred to analyse it but not to click on the word while reading the text and get where you want in the glossary (without having to manually add brackets to each and every occurrence of every known form of each word of each language being used.)