JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

If I am understanding Obsidian Publish correctly, you can create a personal wiki. Is that what we all think?

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MitchW
MitchW

@JohnPhilpin Essentially, yes. Purists will call it a “zettelkasten” or “digital garden” or “PKM,” and there are differences, but it’s essentially a variety of personal wiki.

I just use obsidian as a document management system and markdown editor, and don’t use publish.

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annahavron
annahavron

@JohnPhilpin you can create a personal wiki with the free version of Obsidian. The Publish add-on is just to make it, well, public. I don't use Publish, but I do use their Sync service so I can access my personal notes on the go.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@annahavron yes thankyou .. new to obsidian - but getting there ... now becoming a central part of my workflow as I unpack it.

Workflow

I have always find of understood sync - but wrestled with publish until the light dawned yesterday.

For me - I sync everything via iCloud - do iDevices and Macs can all see it - so don’t think I need synch.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@MitchWagner thanks Mitch - yes - same for me at the moment. The light dawned yesterday as I was trying to work out why someone would pay. Now I have ut - but the full idea of a public WIKI had been los on me until then.

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MitchW
MitchW

@JohnPhilpin Everything old is new again. People were posting personal wikis in the 2000s.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@MitchWagner whilst that is true - it is much easier to do it in 2021. I also like that something like Obsidian ( and Craft to a lesser extent) allows people to naturally expand a personal use case into the web to share.

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MitchW
MitchW

@JohnPhilpin Good point. Like the difference between hand-coding a blog vs. using Blogger.

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JohnPhilpin
JohnPhilpin

@MitchWagner well yes - but I was more thinking how

1) apps like wordstar, pages, word et all sat on your machine - separate to the network and then

2) they started to share docs amongst other machines with the same software through a network and then

2) they started to share docs amongst other machines with different software through that same network (doc portability) and then

3) the ERP doc management systems (OPEN TEXT, Documentum et al) kicked in big time for large enterprises and then

4) the web came along democratising that ability - BUT the world of creating and sharing lived in two distinct clouds

BUT NOW

5) we are seeing the merging of single apps being the creation point and the distrivution

(arguably wordpress did this first - BUT - really nobody in their right mind would use WP drafts as an unpublished library - all that is changing - again - with the new breed

Removing the friction between writing and publishing those words to a wider audience.

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MitchW
MitchW

@JohnPhilpin Removing the friction is key. I had not thought of that.

It's the difference between hand-crafting HTML vs. using Blogger or WordPress (or, beyond that, Facebook or Twitter). When blogs were hand-crafted HTML, only developers and web designers had blogs. Afterwards, everybody published to the web.

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