Good Apps: Obsidian blog.martin-haehnel.de

@matti i tried Obsidian for a while and liked it. But every app seems to have some sort of workflow glitch that turns me away from it. I am currently seeing what Drafts can do and find it working quite well for my purposes. But we’ll see. At some point something I won’t be able to do will argue against it.

@mbkriegh I'd be curious what Obsidian was lacking in your case? (Drafts, although a good app, doesn't have automatic renaming of links, so it wouldn't work for me anymore.

@matti there are things missing in the phone app, such as ability to open in Ulysses. When I travel that’s all I have so that is one problem. And then, on the phone app I can’t send article links to it. I also find I depend more on tagging to associate things than links. I am really liking workspaces on drafts too.

@pimoore long time ago I used Bear and really liked it. I imagine it has evolved so I should look again. I looked at Craft a few months ago and didn’t stick with it. Don’t remember why.

@mbkriegh Craft didn’t click with me as much as Bear did either, though I didn’t use it nearly as long.

@matti Yesss, I've become a big fan of Obsidian too! I like that it's relatively straightforward when you set it up (or at least can be if you ignore all the advanced settings), but you can also install extensions to make it more feature-filled (and complicated, admittedly). It's a nifty tool!

@jayeless Absolutely. It is easy to get lost if one starts to (over)engineer their setup too quickly. I sometimes wish that the whole note taking space would be less overhyped so that more people would just try it out instead of getting discouraged by the complexity of the software that doesn't need to be there or the marketing language. I think many normal people could benefit a lot, not only techy people.