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by dugite-code 824 days ago
The big gap I would love to be solved is a, preferably selfhosted, browser based view into my notes. That way I could access my notes from computers you can't or won't install obsidian on.

If it was open source that would be more likely to happen
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drewp 823 days ago
I threw something together to address that goal. It was really hard to render obsidian-md into html that looked about the same. I started with general MD libs, then ultimately used obsidian-html. Obsidian's MD is not standard at all, though I'm not sure any MD is fully specified since there are so many edge cases.

Sample output (should be viewable since I put `#public` at top of the document): https://bigasterisk.com/vault/esp%20cams.md

Server code: https://bigasterisk.com/code/vaulterrific/files/tip/

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Brajeshwar 824 days ago
Do you mean how your notes are connected, and organized? Otherwise, they are plain-text Markdown files. Any app that renders Markdown should be able to do it.

In-fact, I don’t really like Obsidian on Mobile, so I use iA-Writer to edit/view the Markdown files that I managed with Obsidian on the Desktop.

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dugite-code 824 days ago
> Any app that renders Markdown should be able to do it.

Sure but I can't interact with them the same way as I do in Obsidian. It's an electron app so it's already heavy on the web based tech.

Currently I export my notes as a webpage and edit using my Nextcloud instance. It works, but it's not very nice.

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