telekasten.nvim VS obsidian.nvim

"renerocksai/telekasten.nvim" - note saving

Are you a Neovim user? If so, I'd recomend Telekasten.nvim (https://github.com/renerocksai/telekasten.nvim). It's an amazing experience writing your zettles

Are you familiar with the idea of Zettelkasten method? It's an old idea about how to accomplish what you're talking about, but there's a ton of software out there meant to facilitate it. The wikipedia article is worth a glance, and there are various articles about software implementations. A lot of people mention Obsidian in connection with it. I use a Neovim extension for it, telekasten.nvim because I generally live in Neovim, but there are bunch of other options.

- it interacts with calendar, so you can have chronological scratch notes, and well organised final notes https://github.com/renerocksai/telekasten.nvim

For Notetaking, I use Vimwiki. However there are other out there like obsidian.nvim, telekasten.nvim, neorg, nvim-orgmode, mind.nvim. I wanted something that felt universal, (like supported anywhere) so I moved to basically to markdown based system, since it's supported by github, gitlab, obsidian gui app, etc. I even use it on mobile, there is an obsidian android app.

Currently there are three choices that looks promising to me: neorg (might be too complicated for me), zk.nvim, and telekasten.nvim. What is your experience if you use one of these plugins for note-taking? How well can they address the problems listed above?

I am using a note taking plugin called Telekasten and my current theme, Nightfox, does not seem to support the custom file type. The result of this is that whenever I open a file that has the telekasten the colour of the file is completely uniform.

Plug for telekasten.nvim, I've bounced between a bunch of different note/journal/zettlekasten software solutions, but this one is just so simple and stays out of my way. A bonus is that it supports the same format (links, tags, etc) as obsidian, so I can switch between the two as needed.

https://github.com/renerocksai/telekasten.nvim is an excellent plugin for integrating markdown zettelkasten into neovim. The vimtex plugin is great for better neovim latex support.

Don't fall for the trap of note taking tools. At the end of the day, if you can write down your thoughts then it does the job. Spend less time on thinking about tools and more time on writing notes.

At the same time, in my opinion you should feel comfortable in your tool. If VimWiki does not suit your needs but you still want to use vim (like I do), you could look into https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim to edit notes in neovim, and then view them in Obsidian using :ObsidianOpen. I like to have my terminal and Obsidian open side-by-side for this workflow.

I'm currently switching from org-mode to obsidian for note taking and an important thing to get right is editing notes in neovim while they render in the obsidian app. obsidian.vim helps but we also need the obsidian UI to automatically follow when active note changes in neovim.

And of course there's also obsidian.nvim, if you want Obsidian-specific features.

There's also zk[2], a zettelkasten-based notetaking tool like Obsidian, but it provides its functionalities through a CLI and LSP server.

[1]: https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim

Yea worth it. As far as good for certain languages over others: text is text. Once you’re more experienced with how (neo)vim works, you won’t want to type anywhere. Like in the browser or obsidian

If i remember correctly, obsidian.nvim had something like that? Haven’t used myself so sorry if I’m wrong.

I use obsidian + obsidian.nvim

Because I like to collect notes from the browser with https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/markdownload/ to obsidian and edit in Nvim with https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim

Could try out this plugin for interacting with an obsidian vault: https://github.com/epwalsh/obsidian.nvim