Obsidian 1.0

Posted by steveylang
Oct 21, 2022 at 04:45 PM

Yes- it is in fact free ;-) (although there is a paid version with more functionality.) I am also going to check out MacDropAny, I haven’t done a lot of 2-way stuff from my iCloud devices to Android yet, I guess I’m afraid of conflicts and that sort of thing. I’m also considering just signing up for Obsidian Sync to make it simple and support the devs. When I first started using Obsidian there was an introductory price of $6/month IIRC, and those that signed up get to keep that price indefinitely. I would do it now in a heartbeat, but at the time was just trying it out.

Another great freebie Mac app for use with Obsidian and general Markdown/text files is MassReplaceIt, a great little utility for doing batch find-and-replace of file names and file contents.
http://www.hexmonkeysoftware.com

Also, MarkdownServiceTools is handy to have if you ever find yourself needing to convert from MD to rich text, etc. (pretty sure there are Obsidian plugins that can do the same):
https://brettterpstra.com/projects/markdown-service-tools/

Finally some interesting news- the Obsidian Roadmap now has a ‘canvas’ feature planned, which I assume would provide a notecard or Heptabase type interface. A discussion about visual note-taking here:
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/visual-spatial-note-taking-whiteboard-mind-map-concept-map/32346

Okay, one more Obsidian tidbit- the weekly Obsidian roundup newsletter is pretty cool, with updates on new features, new plugins, etc.
https://www.obsidianroundup.org

Dellu wrote:
Hi Bill,
>Yes, i have tried UpNote because I have read your views about it before.
>The thing about it is that, it is really cross-platform. The
>organization tools in it are also brilliant. I like it a lot.
>But,there is one issue that made me to avoid it: it uses internal
>database just like Evernote and Bear. I really don’t want that kind of
>system because I want my notes to be available to Foxtrot.
> >@steve thank you for mentioning FreeFileSync. I am not familiar with it.
>But, it seems similar like MacDropAny or Syncovery which can push
>folders to cloud storages. If it is as free as its name suggests, it
>could be great alternative.
>