MadaboutDana
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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...
Since first writing about Octarine I’ve been following the app’s development with considerable interest and have finally gone Pro.
The developer, Rajat, has now decided to focus on Octari...
Most of which we proud CRIMPers have experimented with... ;-)
Personally, I’ve stuck with Obsidian. But TickTick is also a very powerful all-platform solution (and does most of what Todoist doe...
Tinderbox goes AI
8/13/2025
Indeed. It’s worth reading this article for tech insights into exactly how rushed and unprofessional MCP is: https://julsimon.medium.com/why-mcps-disregard-for-40-years-of-rpc-best-practices-wil...
The tech bro ecosystem
7/24/2025
Ah, thanks for posting the Brave comparison – excellent. What fun! I shall have to install Brave's Android browser too, and see how that all works out in practice (Opera has also recently s...
The tech bro ecosystem
7/23/2025
Interesting. There’s a useful comparison on DuckDuckGo’s website (at https://duckduckgo.com/compare-privacy) and yes, Brave does have a couple of points over DuckDuckGo with respect to ad ...
The tech bro ecosystem
7/23/2025
Because this is not entirely irrelevant to knowledge management, I thought I’d pen a brief piece on my cross-platform experiments.
As you all know, the main data ecosystems out there like to ke...
'I Deleted My Second Brain'
7/23/2025
Totally! I’ve read Tiago Forte’s book on your second brain, I’ve experimented with Zettelkasten, and no, they’re all associated with such an enormous organisational overhead.
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Oh wow, that sounds seriously sophisticated! I’ve installed and then uninstalled Dataview several times – it’s amazing, but also complex. Personally, I’ve (so far) had a g...
Oh, and Octarine can also be used with e.g. Obsidian vaults (and any other markdown-based repository of your choice: Tangent, LogSeq, Typora, etc.). It has a very good search engine.
As most of you probably know, I now use Obsidian as my base PKM, and have gradually removed all other apps and subscriptions, persuaded by the sheer power and flexibility of Obsidian and its plugins.
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Gingko
7/4/2025
I’m not sure the developer has moved to Obsidian, but someone has certainly replicated the Gingko concept in Obsidian – very well, in fact. The plugin concerned is called Lineage, and...