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i'm the body selling robot and i'm always selling bodies

breaking into mausoleums doing something naughty



  • also a cat obvs
  • does art, video, coding, gamedev as executive dysfunction allows
    • (godot, zig, some c/c++/c#. if you need a programmer hmu on twitter or something)
  • 日本語はあまりできませんけど、学ぼうとしています
  • very autistic, probably inattentive adhd
  • θΔ maybe, nonhuman for sure
  • 29 & kink/sex positive, period
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exodrifter
@exodrifter

I've started using Obsidian about a week ago, and I basically have new relationship energy with it. I've never used a note-taking application which had so much emphasis on simplicity and an ability to link my notes together in such a powerful way. With it, I finally feel that taking notes is making me more productive and effective. It's made me so excited to... work on things and research stuff? ᵒʰ ᵍᵒᵈ ʷʰᵃᵗ ʰᵃᵛᵉ ᶦ ᵇᵉᶜᵒᵐᵉ

I just wanted to take some time today to shout from the rooftops one thing about it that I really love and what it has empowered me to do.


lexi
@lexi

i have used pretty much every markdown editor under the sun and obsidian is by a mile the best

not even it being electron can make it bad (and i am a passionate electron hater). it is genuinely some of the best software out there

it completely replaced all other plain text editors for me, and heck, you can even do presentations with it. you can make videos with it. you can integrate your calendar. you can use a git plugin to sync your notes around. obsidians plugin ecosystem is incredibly huge, there is a plugin for everything. and the coolest thing about it being markdown-based is that you have zero lock-in. markdown works with every markdown editor. and if you don't have one at hand, a text editor does the job too. i love markdown and obsidian.


thricedotted
@thricedotted

if you're a person who likes to learn stuff from videos and you're interested in obsidian, you might appreciate nicole van der hoeven's youtube channel — it's chock full of learning resources from just getting started to really specific, deep-dive use cases (she has a ton of videos on TTRPGs!)


ebu
@ebu

mixing in syncthing basically means I have my own synchronized personal wiki (!) with automatic offline support (!!). a lack of an offline mode was what killed my previous love for notion, and this combination brings back 95% of the things i loved best.


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in reply to @exodrifter's post:

So far it's nice. I love how easy it is to customize the theme for my eyes. I'm slightly disappointed the iPad version can't sync with Dropbox so I either have to pay them $10/mo to sync or skip using it on my iPad. Not necessarily a deal breaker but disappointing.

I wonder if that has more to do with Dropbox's weird idea of what syncing means on a mobile device. I can't get it to sync a folder on my Android device at all and it uses its own weird way of storing offline files. This means that my music player -- which works on normal files in the filesystem -- cannot play them unless I ask Dropbox to export the selected file into my filesystem, at which point it's no longer synced.

ooooo. this is very like wikidpad which i like but im a big fan of the fun little graph you can make. (tempted to start playing with it just as a graph maker actually no page content)

oohh, wondering whether it being more severely pay-walled is a more recent thing, then??

there are like a zillion archives of the article (based on like different combination of urls), from what i've seen.
but i think that they have all sorts of weird things going on due to medium's member-checking whatevers???
like, the link that you send me loads the article, but it explodes after scrolling an itty bit.
while i'm sure that i can find a hacky way to read this before it explodes, i wouldn't really want to share something like this if it requires more effort than scrolling to read??

i also found freedium:
https://freedium.cfd/https://writingcooperative.com/zettelkasten-how-one-german-scholar-was-so-freakishly-productive-997e4e0ca125

but, it the chance that freedium's ever taken down, then at least there's that pdf i did. 🤷‍♀️✨
(..or an archived copy of the hopefully less volatile freedium copy (which i'm struggling to get every image saved this way))

Oh, hm... that's interesting. I can scroll the entire article just fine myself on wayback, it might have something to do with the ad-blocking plugin I have installed and Firefox's privacy protection blocking something that would otherwise break it though.

Thanks for sharing the other links though, hopefully that can help others in case the other links go down at some point.

in reply to @lexi's post:

i love how obsidian manages to be really performant despite being electron. it’s so great.

fun fact: the main reason this is the case is because performance is absolutely critical to the devs. obsidian isn’t written with any ui frameworks, and the graph view used to be d3, but was later rewritten in c (and run in wasm) by licat himself because he thought it lagged too much

obsidian isn’t written with any ui frameworks

to be fair there are a few of them that introduce almost no performance loss, but most electron apps just use react lol