scimax VS obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

Compare scimax vs obsidian-excalidraw-plugin and see what are their differences.

scimax

An emacs starterkit for scientists and engineers (by jkitchin)

obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

A plugin to edit and view Excalidraw drawings in Obsidian (by zsviczian)
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scimax obsidian-excalidraw-plugin
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scimax

Posts with mentions or reviews of scimax. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-27.
  • Jupyter and org-mode in scimax [video]
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2023
  • Testing different Emacs distros easy way in Emacs 29/30
    4 projects | /r/emacs | 4 Apr 2023
  • Switched to Emacs a week ago, really thrilled so far. Looking for help on a few (somewhat advanced) questions.
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 1 Apr 2023
    Scimax should have out of box setup for bibliography, references etc. Anyway, regardless of what you use Emacs for, one step a time, would be my recommendation. Just start using it and solve problems as you experience them. It is better to add a single thing at a time when you need it, than to add 1000 different things because you think you will need them, and then not know what you have or what causes a problem.
  • Embed excalidraw in Emacs?
    6 projects | /r/emacs | 18 Feb 2023
    https://github.com/wdavew/org-excalidraw is close. I discovered you can install Excalidraw from Chrome, and then it is like a local program. That is pretty amazing in itself. org-excalidraw indeed offers an org-link and way to make an excalidraw file from emacs, edited natively in an external excalidraw window. The svg preview does not work though if you use freehand lines in your image, and I was unable to install the npm packages on my Mac for some uninteresting reason related to DNS, but it did work in a node docker image. I find writing in excalidraw less advanced than in tools like Notability or PDFExpert. There are some artifacts in excalidraw from smoothing, or dangling pixels that I don't love. I forgot I had previously used https://github.com/lepisma/org-krita. Krita is a full drawing program, and this integrates into org-mode with image previews nicely. I am not that skilled in using it, and as a full drawing program, it has a learning curve. I wrote https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-inkscape.el to integrate inkscape into org-mode. It works, but I find inkscape slow to open, and I am not that skilled in using it.
  • Emacs and knowledge management for scientists
    7 projects | /r/emacs | 21 Jan 2023
    Maybe give scimax a go?
  • Emacs as org-mode interpreter - standalone, batch mode?
    5 projects | /r/emacs | 13 Jan 2023
    Anyway, if you want something geared toward scientific usage, there is Scimax by J. Kitchin. There may be some others, but I am not aware off.
  • emacs distributions without evil?
    3 projects | /r/emacs | 5 Nov 2022
    Apart from the ones already mention, John Kitchin's science-focused Scimacs is also an option.
  • Preferred Citation Management and Knowledge Management Tools?
    3 projects | /r/bioinformatics | 12 Jul 2022
  • Possible to display errors in src block results?
    2 projects | /r/orgmode | 3 May 2022
    Got it. Then, I recommend watching other videos by John Kitchin. He had some introductory presentations on Python programming in Org mode. He developed the whole Emacs system optimised for python, Org, and research work: https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/
  • Writing papers/thesis in org with a barebone config
    5 projects | /r/orgmode | 27 Jan 2022
    Not barebones, but I would consider looking at scimax, which is an emacs configuration that likely is similar to your work flow. You can also look to PhD theses written in org-mode and shared on github, there are a few with sensible configurations you might want to just copy.

obsidian-excalidraw-plugin

Posts with mentions or reviews of obsidian-excalidraw-plugin. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-24.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing scimax and obsidian-excalidraw-plugin you can also consider the following projects:

excalidraw - Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams

xournalpp - Xournal++ is a handwriting notetaking software with PDF annotation support. Written in C++ with GTK3, supporting Linux (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, SUSE), macOS and Windows 10. Supports pen input from devices such as Wacom Tablets.

emacs-drawio

excalibrain - A graph view to navigate your Obsidian vault

obsidian-mind-map - An Obsidian plugin for displaying markdown notes as mind maps using Markmap.

diagrams - :art: Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures

anki - Anki's shared backend and web components, and the Qt frontend

obsidian-plantuml - Generate PlantUML Diagrams inside Obsidian.md

Trilium Notes - Build your personal knowledge base with Trilium Notes

draw.io - draw.io is a JavaScript, client-side editor for general diagramming.

obsidian-calendar-plugin - Simple calendar widget for Obsidian.

.emacs.d - Emacs backup of mine