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Obisidan and general note taking (hexbear.net)
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So context, I've always used fully FOSS systems, aside from firmware, and I am a long time neovim and Linux user. I've tried neovim with wiki.vim before, but could never get into proper note taking. I ended up amassing a like 100 separate notes, never revisiting them, even if I tried to link between them. But I checked Obsidian out of curiosity. My issue of being unable and very bad at taking notes kind of went away, and the link system works pretty well. I feel very conflicted about using it as it's closed source, though I know many vouch for it, and it's arguably the only closed source I've been using in the past 5 years (I've been trying it for the last 2 days.) I know LogSeq exists and it went to shit since the rewrite to storing notes in.. SQL? lol

Maybe my problem is with the way I approach notes. I feel like I just type things and never revisit them, but Obsidian forcing me to link between them makes me revisit them. This is one of my gripes, and also the fact 99% of the time I feel I have nothing to say / write about / someone else wrote it before me so it shouldn't matter, so I don't exactly feel inspired

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[–] 7 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

I started taking notes literally two days ago. I checked out Obsidian but found out it's just chromium with shit on top, just started the download, saw it was 350MB, and stopped it. I really, REALLY don't get why there's 350MB worth of code in my note-taking software.

I downloaded QOwnNotes instead and it seems to work fine, probably more minimalist than Obsidian and maybe doesn't suit your use case, but it grinds my gears so much that I'm supposed to install 200 floppy disks worth of software to take notes.

Wild throw but have you tried actual pen and paper? I found out for my projects that buying a cheap notebook for each specific project makes me actually wanna sit down and think and write whatever ideas I have.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Agreed, same here. Mine was actually 600mb and I had only used it for a week; so the fact that we had different sizes mildly concerns me. I manage space pretty tightly with some old school hard drives

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 week ago

    Oh yeah it's incredibly bloated, at peak Obsidian usage I got like 1.5GB RAM usage, which is absurd lol, I'll end up returning to neovim with obsidian.nvim plugin. I actually have tried pen and paper, I find it helps me memorize things better, but for a personal wiki/thought bank/whatever, typing on a computer is way more efficient as I type 100x faster than I write, plus I have an rather awful handwriting lol

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    Oh yeah pen and paper is great. Get some pretty highlighters and coloured pens. Get some gel pens or other fancier pens. Get a decent notebook—squared paper is my preference—and go to town. I find it satisfying to take pretty notes, and the ability to draw things (arrows, boxes, etc) helps a lot with the flow of the notes. Also, it's much easier to use a pen than to type out LaTeX if you're writing math.

    If you want to be a bit more high-tech, I like rnote for digital handwritten notes. However I think doing it on paper looks nicer. Plus you have more options for tools. You can put glitter, all sorts of highlighters, washi tape, etc on a page, if that's your jam.

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