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Joplin
Joplin - the privacy-focused note taking app with sync capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
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logseq
A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.
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obsidian-git
Integrate Git version control with automatic commit-and-sync and other advanced features in Obsidian.md
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markdownload
A Firefox and Google Chrome extension to clip websites and download them into a readable markdown file.
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siyuan
A privacy-first, self-hosted, fully open source personal knowledge management software, written in typescript and golang.
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AI Coding Tip 020 - Create a Second Brain
Dataview Plugin for Obsidian
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Obsidian, Notion, Logseq?! The note-taking stack that doesn’t suck for devs
Example vault structure for dev notes (GitHub): https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview (Dataview for querying .md files)
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Obsidian Bases
The popular Obsidian Dataview plugin enables that and much more (instead of using Bases)
https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
Bases seem like a great alternative to Dataview [0] but better supported and with simpler syntax than literally writing inline JavaScript for more complicated stuff.
You can also export your table as CVS and they plan to properly support Obsidian Publish which was never supported in Dataview.
[0]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview, I was a big fan but it seems the author has stopped actively developing it at some point which is a shame.
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Blogging with Obsidian and Jekyll
Using Dataview, an Obsidian plugin that allows me to query and display content dynamically based on metadata, I can track posts in different stages of completion, identify missing translations, and view related notes.
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Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
No, Obsidian is quite more powerful.
Obsidian has built-in support for markdown, images, PDFs, canvas (via JSON Canvas which they developed and open sourced https://obsidian.md/canvas), and others.
For databases, you can add fields/properties both in the markdown frontmatter or in the text and query it via very popular plugins:
https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
There are tons of community plugins that support all kind of stuff: tasks, kanban, LLM/Copilot, graph analysis of links, charts.
It can also be extended in JS, both writing your own plugins or via a few plugins that allow limited JS support.
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Obsidian is actually quite good as a NoCode prototyping platform for personal apps :-)
E.g. CRUD:
- Use templates, via Templater: to define the content of your data
- Use links and tags to define relations and connections
- Use dataview or graphs for views
- There are even plugins to define buttons and the actions they perform, if you need commands
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📊 Obsidian: Nutrition
At the end of the day, I use Dataview, a plugin for Obsidian, which allows me to make queries to my notes similar to SQL to visualize the collected information:
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Apache Superset
https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
This whole ideas to have data, visualisations and knowledge base in one private offline place is very appealing
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blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview is an open source project licensed under MIT License which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of obsidian-dataview is TypeScript.
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