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A couple of thoughts and comments on Obsidian pricing:
1. The reason for publishing the pricing model is precisely so that people don't waste time on something they won't use once it goes live. I per...
Obsidian has released their pricing. Note that even though sync isn't included in the free tier, one could use one's own sync solution, such as Dropbox.
https://obsidian.md/pricing.html
If I actuall...
I should clarify a few things.
There was some discussion in the Obsidian discord forums about the choice not to base Obsidian on an outliner. There are a lot of good reasons for their choices includi...
I am still torn between Obsidian and Roam
On the Obsidian side:
I like the Obsidian developers better, and I agree that the system is more future proof and there is less concern for lock-in. Also, b...
Inter-note using the [[wikilinks]] syntax is an emergent standard in markdown and is supported by Obsidian among others. Files exported from Roam work fine in Obsidian, although I had to run a script ...
Digital Garden
4/16/2020
A wonderful collection of online "digital gardens" that will appeal to forum members:
https://twitter.com/Mappletons/status/1250532315459194880
(Via the Obsidian discussion forum.)
Roam is not simply an outliner with wiki links, what really makes it unique is the fact that links are bi-directional. You see what is linking to a document. This turns out to be very powerful. For in...
Regarding Ulysses, it now offers pretty good support for folders of markdown files, with some limitations:
https://ulysses.app/kb/external-folders
Taskade
4/14/2020
With the promise of recurring tasks I decided to give taskade a try as a task manager. In the end I don't think it is for me. It seems good for people whose tasks are very project focused, but there i...
My big disappointment with Obsidian is that, despite being by one of the Dynalist developers, it is not an outlining app. It is based on plaintext markdown files. I hope that this can be somewhat miti...
Opening a thread for discussion of roam-like knowledge managers including Roam, Obsidian (beta app from Dyanlist's Erica), as well as TiddlyWiki and Org-mode (people have made plugins for both to repl...
Useful Article Explaining Zettelkasten
4/14/2020
I was reluctant to post the link, but still glad that we can now talk about Obsidian as well as Roam here. I just posted a suggestion on the Obsidian forums (they use discordapp) for outliner features...
Useful Article Explaining Zettelkasten
4/13/2020
It isn't an open beta yet, so I would feel bad about sharing the info here, but I found out about it myself on the Roam Slack channel. You can look there. It is very early beta so far, so not much to ...
Useful Article Explaining Zettelkasten
4/13/2020
Bill,
I totally respect your choices about what kind of file system you want to have. I do want to reiterate however that there are good reasons to play with Roam and learn what it can do *even if yo...
Useful Article Explaining Zettelkasten
4/10/2020
The site had some issues yesterday, but my understanding (from Slack) is that this is the first time anything like that happened since they went public. Also, they had recently implemented new sync me...
Useful Article Explaining Zettelkasten
4/10/2020
Bill,
Have you tried Roam Research? I was just talking with people on the Roam Research forums about how great it would be to have something that combined the slick user interface of Note Plan or Age...
Strength and solidarity
4/7/2020
When the apocalypse is upon us I will probably still be trying to find the perfect outlining app to record the last days ...
stay safe everyone!
Outliner for granular writing?
4/4/2020
Oh, seems that Zeksa is currently down. Hopefully the developer will get it back up again...
Outliner for granular writing?
4/4/2020
I posted about such a tool recently: Zeksa.
https://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/9000
Personally I use Ulysses for this:
https://ulysses.app/
Dynalist does not have great output formattin...
Explanation of the Firefox issue here. (It is back up.)
https://community.worldbrain.io/t/firefox-add-on-cannot-install/385/3
So I got some clarity on the sync issue:
"The mobile app only requires the wifi connection on the first sync.
It should also work when using the phone’s tethering, at least it works for me just...
I give 1 star reviews if I can't use the product as advertised, or if I attempt to get an answer from support and it isn't answered. In this case both are true. Note that the review is only of the iOS...
Memex (formerly WorldBrain) is "A privacy focused extension to annotate, search and organize what you've seen online." Works in Chrome and Firefox and has mobile apps. I'm still trying to figure it ou...
I finally tried Roam and am really impressed. What I really love is that you don't have to move items to file them away. This is a big problem with outliners and task managers, where you constantly ha...
Taskade
3/12/2020
That is a business model, but it isn’t the one Taskade claims to be using. (As they’ve discussed in several places as well as what is fairly obvious from the other features they reserve fo...