Anyone else using #obsidian for notes or documentation? I've been toying with it personally and tuning up some ideas for my next term starting this week. What plugins have you found useful as an IT professional?
I'm a solo #sysadmin with a fallback #msp. Agent facing documentation in my ITSM is a process (rightfully so) to edit and update, but is slow to search if I can't find it straight away.
@dapprvilln This is my list of community plugins. I'm using #obsidian for note-taking, articles, archives, and research. Hope it will bring inspiration.
@dapprvilln@kushal Love Obsidian, I use it for work, home, and D&D. One of my favorite plugins is the typewriter scrolling one, which makes it such a pleasure to write and edit longer documents.
@dapprvilln in addition to daily notes, I am using it for project notes and planning, short stories, novel writing, kanban project management, kanban management of short stories and blog posts, and cooking recipe management. I'm a fan.
@Pantsu@dapprvilln I’ve never heard of #LogSeq before, having settled on #Obsidian (even though I’m not a closed-source fan) after trying a number of #Markdown#PKM apps. I’m going to try it out this morning, so glad I saw this thread!
@punko@Pantsu maybe the #LogSeq regulars can better clarify this. But from my initial reaction, when I imported the 'graph' that was my existing #obsidian 'folder', it simply parsed all of the notes as pages and didn't offer any out of the box structure to the notes that I had with Obsidian. That was my biggest hangup - expecting them to be equals in that regard.
I'm sure a plug-in exist, and maybe that's part of the mindset difference I'm not getting between the two platforms - that maybe LogSeq is meant to be simply a journal where you outline and take notes and use tags or search/links to reference data in a meaningful way. I'm still a newbie at this markdown mindset.
I have it in mind to categorize Obsidian into folders for specific items, like projects, documentation, templates, etc.
@alxlg@punko@Pantsu I used #LogSeq exclusively from scratch today and started with the videos on their website from #OneStutteringMind. I still need to watch the last half of the series tomorrow. But if the mindset of blocks and outlines applies to Obsidian as well, then I went in with the wrong approach and today's learning and practice was worthwhile regardless of the platform.
I can see how it will be useful even without all the fancy plugin support Obsidian has. Still, I found some useful, but not until I was using the system in a barebones fashion.
@dapprvilln@alxlg@punko@Pantsu@obsidianmd#Obsidian and #Logseq are fundamentally different. Files and prose are first-class citizens in Obsidian; blocks and outlining are first-class citizens in Logseq. Both approaches have strengths and limitations. Some people use them both, but for different things.
@punko@dapprvilln@Pantsu I use emacs org-mode with evil-mode. With org-babel it's really powerful for executable documentation with the ability to mix and match languages and then export to markdown, html, or whatever for stuffing into other systems. Not to mention all the gtd task management and pkm capabilities even before looking at packages like org-roam. Plus then your inside emacs, so you can read email and use Magit and and and #emacs#orgmode#pkm
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