Tag: obsidian
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Signboard – A kanban app that writes Markdown files
I’ve wanted this for a long time – a kanban style productivity desktop app that writes Markdown files to disk. And that is what Signboard is. It looks like this. And here is this board represented on disk as directories and files. You can grab a copy for macOS or Windows today and give it…
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V.H. Belvadi on Markdown in a note editor
V.H. Belvadi: What we need is a notes app that looks and behaves like a rich text editor but saves in Markdown. And by this I do not mean the clunky ‘source editor mode’ or whatever Obsidian calls it, where the Markdown formatting characters appear and disappear constantly displacing the text on your screen; instead I…
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But she’s a girl on Johnny.Decimal
But she’s a girl…: Things were scattered all over the place, randomly distributed among badly-named folders, and often duplicated. It took my several days of chipping away at it in spare moments to get it all organised, but I feel immensely better for it. She’s doing better than I am. I gave it a try…
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Using Spotlight and Shortcuts to create daily notes in Simplenote
While trialing Obsidian I became fond of a core plugin it had called Daily notes. Activating the plugin adds a button in the interface that creates a new note with a name based on today’s date. It makes keeping a daily log extremely easy. Since I primarily use Simplenote I wanted the same thing on…
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But she’s a girl on Obsidian
But she’s a girl…: I wanted something that operated on plain-text files kept in a local folder, and that also had a graph view: that was the feature in org-roam that really made the difference between me just writing notes and seeing how they fitted together and building ideas out of them. Obsidian has both of…
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Obsidian didn’t stick, for me
Back in May I came across Obsidian, a knowledge base app that stores your information in Markdown files. I used it a bit here and there until, in July, I stumbled onto Ton Zijlstra’s post about Obsidian which motivated me to try it in earnest. I was excited to have a note taking app that…
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Decentralizing all of my data
A few days ago I came across Ton Zijlstra’s post about trying out Obsidian. I didn’t have the time to read it just then so I quickly stored it in Unmark (shameless plug alert) to read later. After reading his post I realized he is attracted to Obsidian for the same reasons that I was…