App like inkdrop12/9/2023 If someone needs a new Firefox feature, within limits they may be able to make an extension that makes the desired feature possible. Obsidian would be the equivalent of Firefox which does. This may mean that a capability someone might need could exist and not know it yet - especially if a capability exists when a user combines multiple plugins plus a specific workflow to make it happen.Īpps like OneNote and Evernote might be like web browsers that don't support extensions and add-ons. However, to use Obsidian to the fullest, we may have to sift through hundreds of plugins to at least learn enough about them to see how they might be useful. But they don't have a user interface like Obsidian that lets you work with multiple panes the way we can in an editor like Atom. Programs like Roam and Logseq are useful. So the user interface itself can be helpful even if we only use Obsidian as a multi-pane Notepad replacement. That's also a quality-of-life UI feature that can increase productivity. For instance if we just added a photo to the vault, that can appear near the top of that list.įeatures like that can increase productivity just like when we click a search result and Obsidian opens the associated page and briefly highlights the part of the page that has the result we're looking for. That list is sorted so most recently used items are at the top making them easy to choose. Obdisian plugins can make it split information into smaller units.Īnd as someone once pointed out, if we type [[ The best that OneNote can do is show short snippets of information in search results. Hover over a search result can we can see the entire note associated with that note. Smart templates make it easy to create new pages pre-populated with useful information. The Dataview plugin can make list automatically appear on a page. Because Obsidian has an open API, we can continue to add useful functionality to it.įor instance, yesterday I needed to see a display of all pages that have lowercase file names. OneTastic for OneNote, for instance, can't change the way OneNote works. Like synaut noted, OneNote has no real expandability. They've already promised a bunch of things over the last ~3-4 years and none of it has materialized thus far. We'll see what happens when they finally get clear of their multi-year app swapping nonsense on Windows, but as I said elsewhere in the thread, I'll believe new OneNote features when I see them. But for a researcher or an office worker, there's just deafening silence as to new features. OneNote's primary target market right now is the classroom, and they are rolling out new embeds that make teaching primary school kids easier, and new ways to manage class notebooks. OneNote also is really slow with rolling out features/updates. I had to manually move my notes over to Obsidian from OneNote. Anyways, I’m not saying that OneNote sucks or anything like that (obviously it doesn’t because I was using it for years) I’ve just moved on from it because I feel limited by it now.Īside from that, the major issue I have with OneNote is the difficulty in exporting notes out of OneNote and that’s precisely because the notes are stored using a proprietary format. Microsoft doesn’t really have any insensitive (IMO) to update OneNote or dedicate a lot of resources to it because it’s not their “money maker.” Obsidian, on the other hand, is a dedicated core note-taking app developed by a small team, so there are incentives to make the app good because this is their main product. md and local on my computer so no sync issues or exporting troubles and the community is active so the updates are very frequent. These are the main reasons I like Obsidian: the notes are. Aside from that, the major issue I have with OneNote is the difficulty in exporting notes out of OneNote and that’s precisely because the notes are stored using a proprietary format. And I’ve plenty of sync conflicts (probably was not doing something completely correct). Yeah, I know the notes are downloaded to your device when you start up OneNote, so that you can use OneNote offline which is great, but the notes are eventually uploaded to OneDrive where they’re stored for syncing between devices.
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