For now, this page just includes a reflection on obsidian as a [[PKM]]. [[February 10th, 2022]] Ok, I'm officially a couple weeks into Obsidian and I think[^0] it's the best tool I've used so far. While I don't have much time for noodling on topics these days I definitely need a place to write memos, draft emails, etc and Roam wasn't doing it for me. Obsidian has the same mechanics with the ability to cleanly store prose. - It's all just markdown. I can have a page that has a big bulleted, foldable list like in Roam and also have a bunch of prose in another doc. Both have the same linking functionality. - Sync is super snappy and works cross platform (Mac, iOS, Linux) - I can switch between live preview mode like Notion or just have raw markdown - Like notion where all blocks are formatted unless you - Typing `[[` is the only way to go. This is similar to Roam but way less clunky than Notion. Slightly difference in that making the link text doesn't create the page like it does in Roam. - Has the ability to link to individual blocks typing `[[Page Name^` will bring up a search within that page and allow you to link to a specific block - Nesting, folding, shuffling of bulleted lists - The `query` operator builds queries inline. I can create ToDo lists on any page, give them a tag of `#Today`, `#Upcoming`, `#Eventually` and then make a page that includes queries like the following. That page will render all my ToDos by tag and which page they came from. ``` ```query line:(#Today "[ ]") \``` ``` - Latex, Mathjax, etc - Plugins are quick little javascript modules if I wanted to write one - Publish is sick, I have a little space where I can publish all the pages I want. Once I get more comfortable committing to the platform I want to build out a full PKM. For now it's just a mess of junk for testing and linking people to notes/docs. - Sync is encrypted at rest and in transit. Also each device has it's own local store so if the service goes down, you still have the local files. Nits: - It's not completely open source. But neither is Roam or Notion so that's not a complete negative - No way to include child snippets/blocks currently. Only include by reference of individual blocks - Same inability to open multiple windows as the others Cons: - Can't do shared sync, only a single account. You can have multiple Vaults open in one app though. Plugins I have installed/enabled: - Base Plugins - [Backlinks](https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Backlinks) - [Starred Notes](https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Starred+notes) - [Publish](https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Publish) - [Sync](https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Sync/Introduction+to+Obsidian+Sync) - [Graph View](https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Graph+view) - [Quick Switcher](https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Quick+switcher) - Community Plugins (easy to install from the browser in-app) - [Natural Language Dates](https://github.com/argenos/nldates-obsidian) ## Other Sites Using Obsidian Publish These are a collection of other sites that I've found in the wild which are using Obsidian publish: - https://chadnauseam.com/faq as a PKM - https://untested.sonnet.io/ seems to use Obsidian as their base but not Obsidian publish [^0]: I may still be in the honeymoon stage though so it's tentative