MadaboutDana
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All-In-One solution?
3 weeks ago
Hi Mike,
Ah, the all-in-one approach is one of those things that hovers, just out of reach...
I've been using Obsidian as my go-to here, because of its unbelievable flexibility. On the other han...
Forum redesign
3 weeks ago
Just another endorsement to say: this really is the bees' knees! Very elegant, very easy to use. I'd love to know what the back end is?
Whew, thanks for reminding me, Paul – I was beginning to hyperventilate...
Paul Korm wrote:
>There's always the weekend, Bill ...
Funnily enough, I caught sight of this just yesterday – but with extraordinary self-discipline, managed to stop myself from downloading it... Damn, maybe I'm going to have to after all...
Oh wow, I hadn't seen that – and I use Task Board! I'll take a look straight away...
Forum redesign
4/14/2026
Whoa, that's so cool! Thanks, Chris!!!
HelixNotes and Zorin OS
3/10/2026
Bravo! Elementary OS is very nice (and in fact, Zorin OS Pro includes an Elementary-style interface, which is nice).
Installing Zorin on the MacBook Air was ridiculously easy. They've clearly include...
HelixNotes and Zorin OS
3/6/2026
Well! What fun I'm having in my spare time!
As some of you know, I regularly experiment with Linux as I seek to achieve my long-term goal -- moving away from the big U.S. suppliers. But so far, my ex...
Bike Outliner 2 Themes (Preview)
1/20/2026
Just thought I'd post part of an e-mail I've just received from Sascha at Zettelkasten.de – apparently Bike is his outliner of choice:
"I just pull content from my Zettelkasten. For most episod...
Obsidian Bases -- any use cases?
1/13/2026
Totally agree – and of course DataView serves as the back-end for so many other plugins, thereby avoiding the need to tackle it directly ;-)
But I uninstalled it long ago, because it also contr...
Recent Heptabase Experience
1/13/2026
With respect to Obsidian, I strongly recommend the plugin "Various Complements", which despite its rather dull name offers an amazingly useful way to identify related notes as you are typing. No, it's...
Obsidian Bases -- any use cases?
12/15/2025
I don't use Bases to any major extent, but I do sync my contacts with Obsidian, and use Bases to filter them. This is especially useful when looking for multiple contacts; it's easy to create a Bases ...
Capacities 2025
12/2/2025
Ha, sounds like me! While I’m pretty firmly fixed on Obsidian and TickTick now, I still enjoy encouraging the developer of Octarine and others. I would happily switch to Octarine as a PKM system...
Yo Prion,
Er, there isn’t a kanban view in Octarine (although I’m sure the developer would happily create one at some point). There’s a “graph” feature, like Obsidian...
Heh, nice idea.
Well, yes, I do use Obsidian. But I also use:
- Growly Notes (mentioned in the Nisus thread)
- Octarine (mentioned elsewhere in the forum
- reMarkable Desktop
The latter I use much ...
Has Nisus disappeared?
10/24/2025
Nice thread – worth remarking that when I’m not writing in Obsidian (very much my standard go-to nowadays), I use Growly Notes instead. One of the most impressively efficient Mac apps ever...
An interesting journey. Since you’re gravitating to Obsidian for longer, more data-intensive work, can I recommend the plugin “Various Complements”, which is by far the fastest and m...
Oh wow, you’re right – I hadn’t actually noticed (I tend to use my mouse, but would certainly prefer keyboard arrows for large data sets)!
I shall let the amiable Rajat know!
AI-infused
10/2/2025
Well, I must say I’m delighted to hear about such positive experiences.
My own tests of AI translation have been disappointing, although I continue to use MT systems as a kind of super-thesauru...
AI-infused
10/1/2025
@eastgate, just to come back to what you were saying earlier. I tend to agree that you’re missing the point. Speaking personally, I am not “against” AI as such, but I am very wary, f...
AI-infused
9/29/2025
... or, with some nice examples, here: https://equixly.com/blog/2025/03/29/mcp-server-new-security-nightmare/
AI-infused
9/29/2025
For a more brutal takedown of MCP, see e.g. https://medium.com/data-science-collective/mcp-is-a-security-nightmare-heres-how-the-agent-security-framework-fixes-it-fd419fdfaf4e
AI-infused
9/29/2025
Sorry, I meant “works as a high-level software engineer” there – she isn’t actual software, as it happens!
AI-infused
9/29/2025
Quite right. A couple of revealing articles here:
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/model-context-protocol-mcp-understanding-security-risks-and-controls
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/artificial-intell...
AI-infused
9/26/2025
Speaking of MCP, it might be worth taking a look at this report: https://www.itpro.com/security/a-malicious-mcp-server-is-silently-stealing-user-emails
Many software engineers have warned that MCP is...