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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk
12/4/2022

Roam vs Obsidian vs Notion vs Apple Notes vs LogSeq vs...? What do people love/use? I've just started trying Obsidian, have spent significant amount of times with everything above.

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html5cat.eth@yuriy
12/4/2022

What I’d love ideally is a Notion like native Mac and mobile apps, persist to .md files and git, published as a simple elegant website 📖 Does Obsidian fit that?

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elizabeth.ai@elizabeth
12/4/2022

using notion, but have been trying to dedicate time to learn & migrate over to obsidian for moooonths -- it's so beautiful

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Sriram Krishnan@sriramk
12/4/2022

cc @eddy @dwr especially

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Shawki Sukkar@shawki
12/4/2022

your favorite? and why?

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Shawki Sukkar@shawki
12/4/2022

notion

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dmath@dmath
12/4/2022

Genuine question: why use Obsidian rather than say, VSCode markdown files? Is it just the linking capability, plugins, etc? What makes it worth it for you? I use vscode for riffing and a single google doc for long-term thoughts

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Rishi Bradoo@rishibradoo
12/4/2022

Check out LYT on YouTube, it will really help in building a framework to get the best of it. I’m a pkm nerd who migrated from Evernote to notion to Obsidian (found my home here)

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Alex Loukissas@futureartist
12/4/2022

Apple Notes. Has everything you need, simple, free, etc. only bad thing is the yellow on white font color for links.

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Mac Budkowski@macbudkowski
12/4/2022

Is there an option to mass migrate your notes from OneNote to a more modern tool like Roam etc.?

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Brian Kim@brianjckim
12/4/2022

apple notes 🫡

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Rasty@rasty
12/4/2022

Apple Notes. Syncs across all devices, easy to use.

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Krish Chelikavada@thecskc
12/4/2022

This but Notion instead of Apple Notes

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dylsteck.eth@dylsteck
12/4/2022

Used Roam for years but moved to Obsidian recently

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Ricky Tan@ricky
12/4/2022

Apple Notes - syncs across devices - locked notes - search is actually good

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Apoorva Govind@apoorva
12/4/2022

Apple notes all the way. The platform integration + habit built over years of using unstructured Apple Notes to jot things down quickly.

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12/4/2022

Drafts Around 80-90% of the text I write goes through Drafts. Such a good OG iOS app (and great Mac companion). farcaster://casts/0x...618588f958

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Varun Srinivasan@v
12/4/2022

Notion + Apple Notes

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Murdo@murdo
12/4/2022

Apple Notes - everything else has too much cognitive overload. But Bear has some nice design touches.

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Jayme Hoffman@jayme
12/4/2022

Notion for meeting notes, research and wikis Apple Notes for most everything else because of it’s lindyness

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Abe Anwar@abe
12/4/2022

I have tried everything and have gone back to Apple Notes. Nothing beats the simplicity it offers.

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Gregory F.@gf
12/4/2022

Notion. Not perfect, but I just can't stand the design aesthetic of apple notes

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Brent Fitzgerald@bf
12/4/2022

Been giving LogSeq a try (with beta sync service) and I like it. Has a growing community, seems hackable, but the defaults are good enough.

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Harper Reed@harper
12/4/2022

Don’t sleep on standard notes. Hands down the best encryption and sync (Apple notes level) but open source. If I could hook logseq / obsidian into their sync engine it would be game over

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Alex 😮‍💨@reyes
12/4/2022

Apple notes has been surprisingly good to use instead of notion with my cofounder. You can share notes and edit them together now

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Julian Lehr@julian
12/4/2022

(Surprised by the number of Notion / Apple Notes replies; would be curious what replies to this q on Twitter would have looked like)

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Gustaf Kugelsurf@gustaf
12/4/2022

Tried many things, but keep coming back to Apple Notes. But then I'm the guy that does wireframes in Keynote.

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Uncle Davo@uncledavo
12/4/2022

I default to Apple Notes because it’s so quick and it feels like there’s less pressure to be structured. But once a week I take from my (messy) Apple Notes and move chunks into Notion regularly (structured notes for sharing). Bit of friction doing that though. Any tips from others?

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grin more@grin
12/4/2022

@perl notetaking

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kepano@kepano
12/4/2022

Depends on how you like to think, and what you prioritize. Obsidian prioritizes offline performance, long term privacy/ownership of your data, and extensibility via plugins. For better and worse it’s designed to be less dogmatic, so that you can shape it to your needs.

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Carlos Acevedo@carlosace
12/5/2022

Apple Notes is quickly becoming my go to. Tags were a good addition, and the ability to use my Apple Pencil on notes makes it super useful. Sync is immediate. I haven't tried Obsidian. Will look into it.

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anand murali@anand
12/5/2022

Apple notes for notes and quick information jots. Notion for long term projects and planning. Also use notion as a bookmarking tool for the browser.

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anoushk.sol@anoushk
12/5/2022

For most stuff Apple notes is good, but if you want a snappy markdown editor for brainstorming and todos then obsidian, also don’t use the graph it’s a distraction tbh

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MC10 | Bankless Consulting 🎯@mc10
12/5/2022

I use Obsidian which works perfectly for my needs and can synch across multiple devices (this functionality has a small cost but worthwhile). The only downside for me is that I use Google Play Books for highlights. Unfortunately I was never able to find a plugin (or any other way) to integrate the two (FYI @kepano 👀)

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literature@literature
12/5/2022

how is obsidian on iOS? the roam ios app feels really slow, like a web view

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Ryan Shea@rs
12/5/2022

Photos for me

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Connor McCormick@nor
12/5/2022

- like to write in Obsidian - capture information in Tana - capture quick notes in Apple Notes - capture daily doodles in a little pocket notebook - structure workflows in Coda - sketch for present in tldraw - design in Figma Here are my notes in my pocket notebook today:

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Arjun Ram@arjunram
12/5/2022

Apple Notes for group editing. Moved from Notion to bear 🐻 notes. Their newer version which is called Panda is really good.

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Amit Mukherjee@amitmukherjee
12/5/2022

If you're trying to do the zettelkasten / smart note taking method, Roam and Obsidian are purpose built for it

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Alok Vasudev@alok
12/5/2022

LogSeq here. My biggest complaint is the difficulty to write documents (ie non bulleted content). But I prefer bullet formatting for 90% of what I use it for. I'd use Apple Notes if it were scriptable.

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12/5/2022

Apple notes :) occasionally LogSeq.

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12/5/2022

Would be best to understand what you currently use/most common use cases. I think it’s more about creating the right infra for you and working backwards. I personally love smart blocks plug in on roam. It allows me to template routines, auto mental models and look back on decisions I’ve made with easy surfacing.

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Vinay Vasanji@vinayvasanji
12/5/2022

Standard Notes https://standardnotes.com/ It's my go to for all note-taking, even has a secure authenticator app as a Note template (so no need to use Authy/Google Authenticator)

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Benji Fisher@benjif
12/5/2022

Apple notes is convenient. I usually jot down my thoughts there and transfer over to Notion as I have a better knowledge structure there. I really tickle my OCD when I got to 0 Apple notes.

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adt@adt
12/20/2022

I've used Quip for years and find it works quite well for a my admittedly trivial use case (more here: https://www.adthappa.com/organization/). That said, I've heard interesting things about https://www.craft.do/ which seems to work well with the calendar integration.