• zeekaran@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Joplin user here. What does obsidian have that I might want? I remember briefly trying it years ago and disliking it.

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      1 year ago

      Joplin stores its files inside a database. Obsidian stores all notes as individual plaintext Markdown files.

      In the first instance, that’s clearly more future-proof and robust - your notes are immediately available in any application without a layer of abstraction. You can’t have a single file corrupt and destroy all your notes.

      I vastly prefer it for that reason. I want to know these notes are still going to work fine in 10 years, and be easily accessible.

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      1 year ago

      I use Joplin for a simple notes app mostly for my phone but I do have it on my desktop and sync. What I do not use it for is my desktop notes collection which is a several thousand notes pages some quite big. I use Zim for that. It is a desktop Wiki.

      I do not use Obsidian but it seems like knowledge base and linking is what people rave about. These are the ways in which I use Zim for example.

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      1 year ago

      Write 4000 notes

      Get a new device

      Sync

      Die waiting

      I do miss joplin, but not cuz it looked good or cuz it was good at syncing

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        Looks like Obsidian’s sync is $8/mo and is a bit messy to sync otherwise, if sharing between Android and Windows. Not a fan of that at all. Joplin sync just works.