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by Simboo 122 days ago
Don’t over complicate this everyone.

This is the best file-explorer GUI ever made hands down.

All your files map 1-to-1 with the OS filesystem. No double clicking files over and over again. No getting lost in endless unsorted directories. Launch any file extension type straight from the same explorer GUI.

I use this app less as a second brain and more as a personal document vault. (Markdown is ugly sorry about it) I get lots of pdf’s and such so it’s all in one place.

Cool, end of speech. Peace out

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I use Calibre to maintain my PDFs. I've even got my taxes in there, but have been thinking recently that they don't belong in a library and probably should just be printed and stored with other important things like passports and birth certificates.

But every PDF I download, ebook, academic article, it goes in Calibre and out of my Downloads path.

I didn't know that Obsidian worked that cleanly; I occasionally flirt with it but have been using https://zim-wiki.org for about a decade longer, so my muscle memory is there. I keep looking for reasons to switch but so far nothing yet has done that?
Any good filemanager is better. Out of the box, it's also very lacking in necessary abilities. There are also some errors around the edges, like hiding vault-internal links, which makes it a bit questionable for good filehandling.

But sure, when all you have are supported filetypes, then it can be useful.

> This is the best file-explorer GUI ever made hands down.

besides norton commander and its clones