obsidian-vimrc-support VS logseq

with vim mode enabled in settings, from normal view you can create a new line below with 'o' or a new line above with 'shift+o'. you can rebind with the vimrc plugin.

Another thing I was considering was using this: https://github.com/esm7/obsidian-vimrc-support

The vimrc-support plug-in comes with a built-in surround command which you can bind to.

The one thing that immediately comes to my mind is that you need an extension in order to be able to use a .vimrc. I also don't think you can use any vim plugins.

The plugin esm7/obsidian-vimrc-support and the built-in vim support is the closest we can get for a mouse-free experience.

" .obsidian.vimrc " " A small .vimrc for Obsidian vim bindings " " To enable this file, you must install the Vimrc Support plugin for Obsidian: " https://github.com/esm7/obsidian-vimrc-support " _________________________________________________________________________ " ; (semicolon) - same as : (colon) nmap ; : " (space) - same as : (colon) nmap : " j and k navigate visual lines rather than logical ones nmap j gj nmap k gk

You can extend the built in features with your own config using this plugin: https://github.com/esm7/obsidian-vimrc-support

Obsidian's Vim functionality is just using whatever is available to the codemirror editor, it doesn't actually have all of the features of Vim. It's possible to get a plugin which allows for loading a .vimrc but again, the supported functionality is limited (i.e. there are lots of vim settings and features that do not work despite being valid in a regular .vimrc). It's not hard to find an example of this either; in actual Vim the movement dj will delete the current line and also the line below it. In Obsidian with Vim features enabled, it will only delete the current line. This is a simple example that has nothing to do with getting snippets working, but it is indicative that the actual Vim text editor and the Vim features available to Obsidian are not the same.

Logseq support via our Logseq Plugin

Sorry, but _what exactly_ «it seems to do» from your point of view?

My «second brain» now is almost 300Mb of text, pictures, sound files, PDF and other stuff. As I already mentioned, it contains tables, mathematical formulae, sheet music, cross-references, code samples, UML diagrams and graphs in Graphviz format. It is versioned, indexed by local search engine, analyzed by AI assistant and shared between many computers and mobile devices. And (last but not least) it works: it allows me to solve my tasks way more faster than with the assistant of external, non-personalized tools (like ChatGPT, StackExchange or Google).

I know no tools for all this tasks except org-mode. Well, maybe Evernote in the 2010-s was something similar — but with less features, with more bugs and with worse interface.

Personal note-taking _is_ a complex task per se (well, at least for someone like typical HN visitor). I've seen many note-taking tools, that were ridiculously featureless, stupid and inconvenient because they were _not_ complex enough.

> Sure if one wants to do emacs-gardening it is fine.

1)You can use org-mode outside Emacs. See for example Logseq (https://logseq.com/), organice (https://organice.200ok.ch/) or EasyOrg.

2)Org-mode works in Emacs out of the box, you don't need any «emacs-gardening» to use org-mode.

3)The term «Emacs-gardening» itself sound a bit like hate-speech for me. The complexity of Emacs customization is overrated, mostly due to opinions of people who never used Emacs or used it in the previous millennium.

Obsidian is great.

For those looking for an open source alternative (or don't want to pay the Obsidian fees for professional usage) check out Logseq: https://logseq.com/

For an opensource alternative to Obsidian checkout Logseq (1). I spent a while thinking obsidian was opensource out of my own ignorance and was disappointed when I learned it was not.

1: https://logseq.com/

I use logseq to keep journal of my daily work.

While Emacs and Org mode can certainly be used for this (and, when they can't, you can always inject little python/js scripts in your emacs config to take care of specific things), I'd also recommend you take a look at Logseq.