Anyone here using Obsidian? Not so much for note taking but I've been using GitBook for creating steps for common tasks. I keep asking myself why I am not just using an Umbraco site which I find much more enjoyable to edit. However, I thought I would do a bit of research and discovered Obsidian and further still the Zettelkasten technique. All seems very interesting so wondered if any of you have been down this rabbit hole?

Never heard of it to be honest 😄 I use Gitbook for my wiki. Reason I don't use Umbraco for it is because I can just store it all on Github and access it on my phone if needed, plus all the functionality that gitbook gives me would take me ages to build in Umbraco 😄

I installed Obsidian, but keep going back to VS Code and markdown files, pushing to github between my work and personal laptop. Going to look into the Zettelkasten technique now though.

I use Obsidian as my day-to-day notes app

I'm currently using Obsidian! I love that it's just an extra layer on top of Markdown, super easy to use and I especially find linking documents together helpful

I have a little ticket board in there with my todo's and I like how easily I can create a simple diagram with it. I just want to make boxes and connect them with arrows

Same @D_Inventor. Notion was far too complicated for its own good for a day-to-day note taking app

Love Obsidian, the best note taking app I've tried so far. But I just keep falling back to scribbling on my Remarkable instead. I am not organized enough to use an organized system for note taking 😅

Going to take a peek at Obsidian now 😄

It's so good because it is indeed Markdown+ and I love Markdown.

oh, looks like I can import Gitbook in to it too.

Thank you all for engaging - I would be interested to see feedback about Zettelkasten as well. I'm still wondering if I could achieve the same with an Umbraco site if tag / category management was a little more comprehensive.

When all you've got is a hammer everything looks like a nail? 😅 You might be able to do it, but the fact that Umbraco adds a lot of meta data to each content item means there will be plenty of friction in organizing, saving, etc.

I think the key difference is this amazing Graph View https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Graph+view

Oooh, this looks cool. Gonna have to give this a try 😄

Just realised, I probably dont want my wiki on gitbooks in obsidian as they are 2 different things for me. Obsidian would be note taking while my wiki is code snippets etc. Hmm, need to pay for device sync.

You can have multiple workspaces I think

oooo. a way around paying for sync stuff 😄

I was thinking to use a folder in OneDrive?

Should work too

I was going to use OneDrive folder but then couldn't access the onedrive folder via the mobile app

I used Github for synching

How does that work? Ah you manually commit changes?

yes, typically when I switch between work and personal laptops

In general or just using Obsidian?

Obsidian.

I just gave it a test using OneDrive between my Laptop and Desktop and it ran perfectly. I am using my personal folder in my 365 account if that helps?

I can hook up between laptops / pc. I just can't hook up from laptop to mobile.

Hmm cynical me thinks this kind of looks deliberate that it will only use folders that Android provide access to and doesn't allow you to point to your onedrive folder. Adobe done a similar thing to get us to keep all our files in Creative Cloud. However less cynical me things that perhaps it's either not possible or would be costly to do so. Here's Obsidians take: https://help.obsidian.md/Getting+started/Sync+your+notes+across+devices