Simplenote vs obsidian update#

When Obsidian's Electron underpinnings inevitably start demanding 12GB of RAM and I only have 0.5 on the in-wall kitchen touchscreen, I can damn well use TextEdit to update the shopping list.Īm I ready to start another note-taking system journey? Well.In 10 years time when I have 10,000 pages in my database and decide I structured them wrong, re-jigging them will be a 10 line Perl script.When Markdown is indeed replaced by re-re-reStructuredText-final-this-time, converting between the two will be a sed one-liner.When Obsidian gets bought out by Amazon and is turned into a WebDev tool for people who don't read books, my database will be safe.

Simplenote vs obsidian Pc#

RaspberryPiLiteZeroPointZero, the upcoming mini PC that will run on the hot air coming out of the user's mouth, will be able to read, edit, modify, copy, backup, store and transform the files.

Sync1000, released in the year 2050, will still be able to sync the files between neural cyborg instances.

TextEditor9000, released in the year 2035, will still be able to read the files just fine.

I mean, have you seen the time I waste each day moving my hand to the mouse? Here's what gets me very excited about being plain text file based:

I do fear Markdown was only the archetype of an excellent concept, and may very soon be replaced by something less fragmented, like reStructuredText.

Obsidian is plain text file based and uses the oh-so-familiar Markdown syntax. So when one of the Twitter thread replies mentioned Obsidian, I felt the pang of intrigue. It's at that moment, that trying to find the right tab, having to login, waiting for the spinning wheel of Javascript doom, bypassing 30 years of keyboard shortcut muscle memory to use the mouse, or trying to remember the syntax to tag a thought, that the moment can so easily pitter away and be lost. Or I could be researching a new concept and deciding whether I should start taking notes or not. Or I might stumble across a Tweet I want to reflect on while doing something else on the computer. I might be on the couch and an idea pops into my head that I need to remember for tomorrow's daily standup. The very things that make it special - living in the browser the dot point as the atomic structure extensible powerful linking and markup features - seem to sap me of that crucial moment between idea and capture. I've seen people use it to great effect.īut for me. But no, Roam is modern, web-based, graph database enabled, blah, blah. On reflection, the similarities are remarkable.

More recently I took a very similar plunge, this time with Roam Research.

Simplenote vs obsidian how to#

I wouldn't even know how to open my DEVONthink database, let alone integrate it into my daily routine again. But that was many computers ago and a lot has changed. It had both the elegant feature set, and the fanatical community, which was sure to mean I finally had the right tool. I too have oscillated fiercely between sophisticated tools and simple ones.Įvery few years I launch into a system, usually by spending money as some sort of guilt or obligation-based hook. It conjured up my decades old obsession with 'the best' note-taking system, which I often fear consumes more time than actually taking notes does. I came across this Tweet: Who else quit Notion / Trello etc and has a simple ass todo list? Here's mine.