Hello. I'm a big fan of markdown, using it since years and all my notes are .md files. I've therefore tried Obsidian but... do not see why to use it. I mean what are the added value against visual studio code ? What are for you the killing features of obsidian ?
Vscode can preview the file, can manage table of contents (using Markdown All In One plugin), ... and since I'm using vscode all the day, yeah, didn't see yet in which way Obsidian can be better for me.
Sure, that's fair! I personally like having my notes and my code separate, plus I like the plugins that Obsidian provides that aren't necessarily in the VS Code ecosystem, and also I take a lot of notes on my phone (which VS Code is not really set up for).
Thanks. I've read a few "obsidian vs vscode" articles yesterday after having read your post here and didn't see in which domain obsidian can be, for me, better than vscode.
I'm using it everyday (I'm developer) and, yes, I find there everything I need.
For smartphone, you've vscode.dev / github.dev i.e. a web interfaces. I'm storing my notes on github.com (public or private repos) and I can well edit my files on my smartphone.
(I don't appreciate the [[plugin]] syntax in obsidian because it's not standard in markdown and thus you'll loose features as soon as you stop using obsidian which is not really "open")
Obsidian is not an editor for markdown files. It's a separate system of notes which are supposed to be highly interlinked. Wiki-like link syntax is essential to it. The files are not supposed to be used outside (although they can, since it's basically markdown), this has nothing to do with openness.
The concept is also not unique to Obisdian. As a VSCode fan (apparently) you might be interested in checking out Foam.
Ah there you go, yeah, I don't want to store my notes in a repo, but that makes sense!
Also you're right about the [[link]] syntax, but it's not as proprietary as you might think; Notion, Bear, Roam, and a bunch of other note-taking softwares use it!
Also VS Code has a extension that does obsidian-like stuff.
Personally I'm losing interest in obsidian - and markdown in general. Ito formatting, It’s all or nothing for me.
Obsidian is a flavored markdown editor, and as soon as you commit to github, everything (dataview, etc) breaks.
What I do appreciate about markdown repos is that they're easily editable in notepad++ and vscode. I spend some time in notepad++ just adding (autosave) files to a subfolder in my obsidian repo. The notepad++ plugins are better than obsidian.
I guess there's a gradient of use cases for markdown. Oh and I appreciate being able to save files of any type (html, rtf, .txt and .csv, .Json, .xml and .sql) in my note repo.
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Hello. I'm a big fan of markdown, using it since years and all my notes are .md files. I've therefore tried Obsidian but... do not see why to use it. I mean what are the added value against visual studio code ? What are for you the killing features of obsidian ?
Vscode can preview the file, can manage table of contents (using Markdown All In One plugin), ... and since I'm using vscode all the day, yeah, didn't see yet in which way Obsidian can be better for me.
Sure, that's fair! I personally like having my notes and my code separate, plus I like the plugins that Obsidian provides that aren't necessarily in the VS Code ecosystem, and also I take a lot of notes on my phone (which VS Code is not really set up for).
Thanks. I've read a few "obsidian vs vscode" articles yesterday after having read your post here and didn't see in which domain obsidian can be, for me, better than vscode.
I'm using it everyday (I'm developer) and, yes, I find there everything I need.
For smartphone, you've vscode.dev / github.dev i.e. a web interfaces. I'm storing my notes on github.com (public or private repos) and I can well edit my files on my smartphone.
(I don't appreciate the [[plugin]] syntax in obsidian because it's not standard in markdown and thus you'll loose features as soon as you stop using obsidian which is not really "open")
Obsidian is not an editor for markdown files. It's a separate system of notes which are supposed to be highly interlinked. Wiki-like link syntax is essential to it. The files are not supposed to be used outside (although they can, since it's basically markdown), this has nothing to do with openness.
The concept is also not unique to Obisdian. As a VSCode fan (apparently) you might be interested in checking out Foam.
Ah there you go, yeah, I don't want to store my notes in a repo, but that makes sense!
Also you're right about the [[link]] syntax, but it's not as proprietary as you might think; Notion, Bear, Roam, and a bunch of other note-taking softwares use it!
Also VS Code has a extension that does obsidian-like stuff.
Personally I'm losing interest in obsidian - and markdown in general. Ito formatting, It’s all or nothing for me.
Obsidian is a flavored markdown editor, and as soon as you commit to github, everything (dataview, etc) breaks.
What I do appreciate about markdown repos is that they're easily editable in notepad++ and vscode. I spend some time in notepad++ just adding (autosave) files to a subfolder in my obsidian repo. The notepad++ plugins are better than obsidian.
I guess there's a gradient of use cases for markdown. Oh and I appreciate being able to save files of any type (html, rtf, .txt and .csv, .Json, .xml and .sql) in my note repo.