obsidian-excalidraw-plugin VS Joplin

I think I have somewhere around 1k notes. Startup time is not my concern as I keep it open all the time. It seems like I bumped into https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/issu... tl;dr: Minimal theme doesn't get along with Excalidraw.

I use excalidraw for almost everything. Brilliant tool. I already mentioned it in another response in this thread but using excalidraw inside obsidian via https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin has been a game changer for me.

For those using Obsidian, the Excalidraw plugin plays really well within it.

https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

Plug for Excalidraw:

https://excalidraw.com/

https://blog.excalidraw.com/

Which, FWIW, supports Apple Pencil and iPad quite well since 2022:

https://twitter.com/excalidraw/status/1491044642493992960

As well as a seemingly evergreen release of the Obsidian plugin that gets people Doge levels of Such Wow:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/s58d2o/just_dis...

Video walkthrough here:

https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

The team based real time collaboration in Excalidraw+ is just fantastic. Glad to have a way to compensate the author:

https://blog.excalidraw.com/introducing-excalidraw-plus/

I love my setup, and if you are going to spend money on an S8 (I have mine with paperfeel screenprotecor). Make sure to donate to the maintainer of the excalidraw plugin, he is doing awesome stuff: https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

For embedded drawings you can use Excalidraw for Obisidian.

As for community plugins, I currently have only the Excalidraw enabled on my Tab Ultra, but I haven't used it much so far.

The Obsidian Excalidraw plugin allows you to draw and write https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

Excalidraw plugin.

I've had great success with using Joplin for this, with Syncthing as a sync backend. Works well across OSes; I use it on Linux, macOS, Windows and Android.

https://joplinapp.org/

The tools to manipulate SQL aren't that bad, no.

But rather than having a self explanatory markdown & flat file, now I have to start learning about the schema & making specific tools (in my preferred language) for manipulating Joplin's schema.

Suddenly I'm digging through 20 different technic specs to decode what data is where, how it works, and what I can do to it. Want to edit history? This is the best help you'll get, pray it's adequately technical to expedite you to your purpose: https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/blob/dev/readme/dev/spec...

As I began with, I struggle to imagine anything that generates anywhere near as much user agency as flat files and markdown. Having boring common data & systems lets me apply portable skills I already have, rather than having to skill up in some particular product's own ecosystem.

Joplin is a good open source option too, feels more like the original Evernote in terms of UI/UX https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/

Joplin, an open source, extendable, Markdown-based hierarchical note-taking app: https://joplinapp.org/

It lets you choose a synchronization backend, offers applications for every major desktop and mobile OS (also has a terminal version). You can create notebooks and subnotebooks to organize your notes. You can also add tags for better search experience. I created notebooks for specific domains (work-related, home improvement, etc.) and also keep a "temp" for quick notes and W.I.P. snippets.

Its only con that it uses Electron on desktop which causes relatively slow start of the application.

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