To your first con, it helps because sometimes docs can be extremely large, and you may need to know and remember 1 specific thing. But yeah, I agree docs will be better, especially when things change. :)

@VakkaHun You first con is actually not true and is in fact a big advantage for a lot of people. Obsidian is available offline meaning you dont have to do a google search to check the documentation. Yes the online documentation is ofcourse useful but if all you need to know is the syntax of a command, why do a google search when you can do it locally faster?

I agree that taking notes just for the sake of it results in the person never utilizing the notes because it becomes too cluttered. Also it doesn't help with retention because you're just writing things down instead of internalizing them Notes should be for links to resources so that you don't forget or saving posts that may be deleted in the future. Other than that I rarely keep notes

You will probably never read this, but you are doing notes wrong. First don't just copy past from docs. rewrite in your own words to reinforce your learning. Second document the undocumented: meaning as your learn take note of the quirks and tricks you learn, and the problems you have along with your solutions.

​@@heinzerbrewBro said you will never read this as if OP was some celebrity whose notifications are flooded lol

The multi-colored lines is presentify (macOS only), not ZoomIt

Excalidraw

Awesome to hear. Yep. I'm hoping to release the Deep Dive sometime in the next few months

I found the following plugin for drawio: github.com/zapthedingbat/drawio-obsidian You can always link from obsidian to wesites/resources or export content and drop it in your vault

For me, the biggest benefit is having markdown files, native vim support and having the files stored locally. On top of that, you have over a thousand open source plugins (or you can develop your own if a functionality is missing)

I takes ages to navigate your files link after link inside Notion since they are not local. Also Obsidian seems very responsive. When there is not something in the native app that is really needed -> someone do a pluggin for it. I remember when I had several open tabs inside Notion. After work I close notion -> next day open notion, only first tab is now open. Now they solve the problem but I had to wait so long it was a pain. There is lots of small stuff like that where if something is bothering, you don't have to wait for the obsidian / notion team to develop the solution -> somone, or you, will. Also like that my files are readable outside of the app. I am building so much knowledge into those file, would be a shame not to be able to access it if obsidian / notion shutdown or even worse, the company die. As a developer I prefer the obsidian editor, even tho notion one is not that bad it feels pretty slow next to obsidian one

I like the way how obsidian is fully customizable. It isn't a pre-made solution like Notion. In Obsidian you can make the workflow or almost any aspect of it your way, specially if you have some coding skills.

Yep, even in the browser 😂 You can create an and display anything you'd like inside

@@amantinband how do you use vim in browser? I'll check the thing 🙏

Totally agree. Obsidian in my opinion is like Vim to VSCode. Why wasting the time when you can utilise it somewhere else in a more useful way … You need to install tons of plugins and each plugin needs to be maintained by whoever. Rather just use notion and life is good

I promise you, if you get version 1.3.7 it's dead simple - no complexity. (That's what I use) This new version they introduced does not work.

It's not complicated at all. You can just make it complicated. It's more powerful than notion because you can literally tailor it to you.i use both tho. Notion is better for databases and stuff like docs, collaboration etc.i love notion lol But if you are building a body of work, want to write a novel or academic research, obsidian is far superior.

@@superakaike notion is completely online while obsidian is local markdown files. Huge difference for a lot of people.

Tools are just a medium use whatever works best for you and gets your job done. Just speaking about Obsidian it can be simple and complex based on end user needs.

what an overestimation 🙄

It's as simple or as complex as you want it to be

I'm also a developer and I love Obsidian. What other note-taking app feels more familiar to devs than Obsidian? Let me know.