![]() I have BBEdit and templates and TextExpander, and use them. ![]() I’m quite fast with HTML, and I’ve used basic tags so very much for work (among other things, I used to convert several thousand syllabi to html pages, for work, several time a year) that I’ve got muscle memory for it. So I’d be interested in alternatives to Obsidian, but I do have some pretty strict requirements! Suggestions welcome!ĭon’t laugh, but at this point, I’m using hand-coded HTML. ![]() If they can just export to Markdown, that’s a halfway point, but it’ll normally only take you in one direction, and to fulfil my first criterion, they need to be able to do that with all your data in a single operation. This is only possible, though, when your tools use the filesystem instead of a custom database, and Markdown instead of a custom format. A friend of mine who writes a lot of long-form stuff and, like me, uses Ulysses to do so, was delighted when I pointed out that Ulysses can be pointed at external folders, and so you can include your Obsidian data in your Ulysses world, and write any given chunk of text with the tool of your choice. I don’t find it nearly as nice a place actually to write notes as, say, Bear was. I switched to it because I thought automatic reverse-linking would be a really useful feature, and I’ve almost never used it. I tend to use things with real keyboards for writing, but if somebody calls me while I’m walking the dog, I need to be able to look things up easily on my phone.Īt the moment, I use and like Obsidian, but can’t help feeling that the vast number of features can be a distraction from the task in hand. Will it sync, and be accessible, across both my Macs, my iPad and my iPhone without needing some external service? (beyond the iCloud, SynologyDrive and Dropbox I already use). This freedom to do a quick and complete move when wanted is doubly important for any app that wants to charge me a subscription! Markdown is a great lingua franca, and had enabled much of this flexibility, but it’s also a fairly low common denominator. If I adopt a new app like Craft (which I admired when I tried it some time ago), but it offers new features like an unusual block structure, or hand-written annotations, I have to wonder what happens to those when I next switch. This is especially the case when it’s something as important as my main note-taking and knowledge system, and I know it’s a good question because my data has moved from VoodooPad to Apple Notes, to Day One, to some hand-coded scripts, to Bear, to Obsidian in the past (and several more before that that I can’t immediately remember now). How easy will it be to get all my data out, in a usable form, in three years time when I want to switch again? etc.My number one rule when switching to any new tool is: start use the build-in Lion-Server-wiki, with fulltext, versioning, sharing.buy for 50USD the Lion Server (new strategy from Apple - the server is really cheap).upgrade to Lion (you get automatic version control).And transforming things into something new is not always an easy task. Like me in the past.īut my prediction is: you're sooner or later will need share knowledge with others, with remote access, security and so on. So now, you're sure will start with some desktop app, because now this is your best idea. Email and syncing is not a solution it is a pain. While don't want talking about its features, pros and cons - I must say: moved into foswiki because simply needed share my personal knowledge base with my wife and son and friends. I was used VooDooPad long time and still a part of my "knowledge base" is still in it.īut, now I'm using a open source wiki. Tried VooDooPad (it is really nice personal wiki) and several other desktop apps. ![]() In the past (years ago) I'm faced this problem too. I understand, than one of your basic criteria was "desktop", so the following is only from my personal experience:
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