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by filterfiber 933 days ago
Obsidian with plugins!!!!

You can create some very powerful workflows with dataviewer, properties and templates.

Whatever note taking style you want really, automatically moving them to folders, etc.

I highly recommend using unique notes with tags to start with, you can reorganize it as you need.

I have #snippets for code snippets, #walkthrough, #todo. Theres plugins to automatically move these to folders if you want.

Notes can easily link or embed each other too, so going from bug -> bug -> project isn't an issue. And creating glossaries is super easy with dataviewer.

Bookmarks for glossary's and searching with tags a keywords makes it easy to find what you're looking for even if its in a pile. And properties let you mark things like "completed: false" for todo items.

The best part: All of your notes are markdown, so you can easily move them elsewhere if needed.

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Great to know, I always read that people dislike Obsidian for being closed-source. It's also not self-hosted by default, but seems possible with a sync plugin. Thanks, I will look into it!
Yeah the client is unfortunately closed source.

The only reason I'm okay with that is that it's a client side application that works with markdown, and their schema for "canvas" is opensource.

> It's also not self-hosted by default, but seems possible with a sync plugin.

I've been very happy with the git plugin for syncing personally, I know many people recommend syncthing. I think there's some obstacles for iphone support specifically although I don't use it on mobile.