I’ll go ahead and start on this one:
After being shown what Obsidian can do by my producer, Neigsendoig, I wanted to set up an Obsidian vault for when I would eventually start doing narration for Cocules Reddit Readings (currently inactive because I hadn’t really recorded anything in a while since my debut on the channel), and making the scripts for it with a few plugins. My experience has been positive for something that’s local-first (which the two of us have been going full-send on lately), and I’m already in love (so is Neigsendoig, in fact).
That’s my experience in a nutshell.
Obsidian is great. I use it for D&D campaign/world management and have a personal “second brain” to keep track of my own black hole of a brain.
As an unrelated aside, and I don’t mean to be rude or antagonistic with this but why do you mention your “producer” the same way in nearly every comment or post you make?
Neigsendoig and I are two separate people with similar interests, likes, dislikes, nightmares, etc.
I’ve been building my own Call of Cthulhu campaign, using it to map out all the scenarios, scenes, characters, and monsters that are needed. It’s great for visually seeing all the links between things, especially after adding tags to them and color coding the graph view.
I love the fact that it stores everything in .md format so they are easily transferable to something else, there’s no locking you into proprietary formats.
Using SyncThing to sync between devices easily is also very handy (I recommend checking it out if you’re looking for a good cloud drive replacement and are fine with self hosting the backup machine yourself).
Syncthing is great for backups, but you have to make sure to change the options for your sync folders to not sync deletions. Otherwise you can potentially delete all your data
Yes, totally agree
I have been using Obsidian for a long time. Started using it at the end of my time in school and now it is my “second brain” as they say. I have a sync sub and they way they handle it is fantastic. They email a week before the sub is due (I have a yearly plan) to remind you it is coming. I have 3 different vaults to keep a few things compartmentalized. And I just got my own sync server set up locally with the community-made live sync, which so far has been better than Obsidian Sync. I love that even if they took the program to a subscription model I would be able to keep my files with out having to convert them or export them.
Which self hosted sync solution are you using? When I was looking into Obsidian I couldn’t find an easy solution that would also work with iOS.
You can use SyncThing and set the Vault folder as the sync folder between devices
Obsidian live sync is the one I am using. I just age it running in a docker container.
You can use ObsidianGit on iOS, which is what I do.
I recommend using iCloud for sync instead if you’re on Apple.
I’ve been using it for notes and random documents. It’s the best one I’ve used so far.
I graduated to it from OneNote because it was way smoother, and I could type LaTeX equations much faster than dealing with the WYSIWYG editor in OneNote when I was doing math-intensive courses at Uni. Being able to hyperlink notes was a huge power-up. Really as easy as imagining one’s own personal Wikipedia. Brilliant.
I can’t help myself. I just can’t stop snorting obsidian. Every night I obsessively go to my workshop. There I remove a small flake of obsidian glass I keep in a special leather pouch. Over the course of the next hour, I obsessively grind down the flake into powder, finer and finer. At last, when the right consistency is reached, I take out a piece of glass and create a fine line of obsidian dust on a mirror. Then, I simply snort it. What the strangest of addictions I have. I simply must use obsidian. It’s a compulsion summoned from some part inside of me; I cannot say where. And no, I cannot simply reuse last night’s grindings. I need that fresh glass man. I throw away probably 90% of what I grind each night, but that’s just a necessary part of the process. I don’t even get high afterwards. I simply must snort obsidian, and I don’t know why. Just gotta have my black glass.
Well… let me creatively dissect that a bit, as this seems to be a joke.
The “Workshop” is the vault, the small flake of “Obsidian Glass” I have no clue on… and so is everything else I think. Either that, or this is messing with me a bit.
Oh jeeze. Nevermind. I thought I was being clever. I read this asklemmy title as “Obsidian Users of Lemmy, What Was Your Experience Like?” I thought I was being clever, but I misread the prompt!
Don’t think too hard about it. I read the question wrong. Then I wanted to take a different interpretation of the (misread) prompt. Write a fun little story about someone who was an “obsidian user”, addicted to obsidian, the physical material.
Oh well. Enjoy my odd little tale about the strange obsidian addict.
I didn’t think about the cleverness of it. Oh well, sometimes that happens.
Your misinterpretation is WAY more accurate than you realize, lol. Obsidian gained an almost cult-like following very quickly. It has made people obsessively document their day. They are hooked on it. Obsidian turned journaling into a drug. If a hardcover notebook is a fine cigar, Obsidian is a vape. You know who won’t like me saying that? People who vape. They don’t want to be compared to Obsidian users.
Neigsendoig and I are the same in that regard in terms of Obsidian use, though we use other note-taking software that’s local first. Notesnook and Standard Notes come to mind for Sendo, actually.
OneNote is better for note-taking incorporating a pen (stylus), and Dynalist is better for lists, but Obsidian is decent for both and has some unique add-ons (Leaflet map plugin). I still use all three.
I have no need for a stylus, and lists are actually pretty good on Obsidian with a plugin or two.
