Obsidian is the private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think.
Settings
- Vim key
External Tools
Features
Extensions
Todoist-integration
Functionality to embed Todo list in pages
Ultimate Todoist-integration
Syncs todos with todoist . Tried syncing all check boxes but it was chaos with checklists. Might switch it back and only sync top level todos.
Smart rename
Rename without changing text or breaking links. https://www.perplexity.ai/search/obsidian-how-to-rename-a-note-5SunxW3yRGqL__9q0pZFdw
Issues
Renaming a document removes all link references to sub-headings.
Update Frontmatter Modified Date Plugin
Issues
This cases syncthing conflicts if obsidian is open on one machine while I’m editing the same file on another machine.
Solutions
Latex Suite
Not working for me.
Omni serarch
nvim style search Can ingest pdfs Requires Text Extractor
Text Extractor
Extract data out of pdfs and the like
Marksman LSP
to connect to nvim. For general markdown Compatible with link syntax out the box for obsidian.
Obsidian.Nvim
alternative to marksmann
Latex Suite
Appears broken
Tasks
Aggregates todos
Obsidian Handwritten Notes
GitHub Integrates with xodo for handwritten notes.
Advanced CLI Interface (Obsidian)
Bugs/Issues
Obsidian Syncthing Conflicts Extensions editing the files on one computer while I edit them on another can cause considerable syncthing conflicts.
Resources
Odyseas guide
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTy_BInQs8
Discussion
What really is the value of obsidian?
- It’s a markdown format.
- You can link between notes
- Which isn’t particularly interesting or novel.
- It’s got power-user a UI - The main appeal.
- And it’s got an extension eco-system.
- Cross-platform. I’m actually thinking that it’s all a bit overblown. It has a great featureset and works really well. But it isn’t open source - My #1 reason I won’t rely on it completely. Linking seems to work okay, but I feel it’s a bit of a pain to link to things and renaming doesn’t work out of the box which really is a travesty because that’s the main fucking reason why anyone uses obsidian rather than a text document and sycnthing. I’m sick of different apps emacs, neovim, different terminal apps, brave, airtable requiring their own keybindings and slightly differently broken modes. The web will always be slow, but we can fix the others. Emacs is an elephant and is fundamentally single-threaded. Once I’ve moved agda to neovim, then I can ditch it. Neovim is great, but it’s text only, so it’s not really a fully functional editor (eg for editing markdown with images/documents). We want to not require chromium where possible, otherwise we end up being VS Code. If editing in neovim is possible for obsidian, which I think it is. Then I can do that and use the Obsidian app on mobile, and as a way to preview the note. See Obsidian NeoVim Wrapper Idea.