Obsidian

Use Cases

• Project Management
• Research
• Publish

Plugins

Major Features

• Dataview plugin.
• Obsidian Kanban Plugin
  • mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban
  • A GUI tool for organizing tasks list within a Markdown file.
• Tasks for tasks management. [due:: tomorrow] [scheduled:: today]

Minor Features

• Colored Tags, colors tags, does not work with graph view and v0.14 properties feature yet .
• ~ List Callouts, prefix bullet text to make it a callout.
• Outliner, allows collapsing bullet points, and using s to reorder bullets.
• Icon Shortcodes
  • This plugin provides more features compared to Emoji Shortcodes
  • Including extended icon packs (with Obsidian built-in icons).

How?

• Folders? Backlinks? Tags? The goal is to extend our brain, not building a great Obsidian setup. The beautiful graph view is merely a byproduct.

Comparison with Roam Research

Why I chose Obsidian over Roam (as a Roam investor) by Nicole van der Hoeven

• Data ownership
• Roam has too many proprietary formats in Markdown
• Easy to publish/share the notes
• Better performance
• In Roam, everything you write is a bullet point in the database, which provides easily block access but also ruins the performance.
• Development team in Obsidian is much more inclusive.
• PRICING.

Obsidian on mobile devices

• On iPad, turn off “auto punctuation” to prevent two dashes from being replaced by an em-dash.

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