#Obsidian notes android
In practice, I still like to have access to my notes even on the go, so I just use an Android Git client with a Markdown editor. On one hand, it's not a big issue for me, because my goals for notes require a big screen and a nice keyboard. One disadvantage is that it doesn't have a mobile app so far (or a remote interface in general). For now, the API is internal, so all the plugins are made by the same company, but they say that once they reach 1.0, they will make the API public.īecause Obsidian is based on Markdown files, you can store them wherever you want and you can sync them across devices with your favorite syncing tool. This leads to some interesting looking "constellations". One cool looking feature in Obsidian is the graph view, where you can visualize how your notes are connected. There's also a way to embed one file (or part of a file) into another one. You can see for each page what other pages link back to it. It enhances the Markdown syntax with the some shortcuts for creating connections between pages using ] syntax.
#Obsidian notes portable
Obsidian is built around Markdown files, which means that the notes are portable and won't get stuck in an old program, should the company go out of business. It's quite new, it was released publicly two months ago and it's not even at version 1.0, but development is progressing quite quickly, with a new version coming out almost weekly. Obsidian is a new desktop app for creating a "A second brain, for you, forever.". Left: folder pane middle: raw markdown right: Rendered note Enter Obsidian Meta: Writing this post in Obsidian. It should make it easy to see all notes that are related to a certain note or to a certain topic. It should encourage serendipitous rediscovery of forgotten notes. Lastly, the note organizing system should help you organize and browse your notes. For your own ideas, in time you add something you cut some things, hopefully making them better and then you create something with them. When you read a book and find something noteworthy, you write some notes, but in time you find that you can reword it better, as you understand things better. Almost all ideas will eventually need refining. It's not something you just write down and then never touch again. It should also help you process your notes.
The note taking system should facilitate creating these connections. As you read things in books, blogs, or come up with ideas on your own, eventually some of them will be related and can be combined to make something even better.
Goals of a note taking systemĪ goal of a note taking system should be to store information, so that your brain can do more fun/useful stuff.īut another goal is to help you connect ideas, even from different domains. Looking back they were good ideas: I know because in the meantime other people have implemented them. Some of those notes were ideas I had, but I never followed up on them. But to search, you have to remember something to look for, so it's almost impossible to find notes which you have forgotten.Īs I've started moving my notes from Keep to Obsidian, I found a lot of old notes which I had totally forgotten about. But Keep doesn't offer good ways to organize notes, having only tags and search. I've used it for around 6 years, so I have a lot of notes jotted down there.
When it came out, I was impressed by how simple and snappy it was, compared to Evernote for example. In most classes, the teacher would dictate a lesson, I would write that down and then memorize it, without needing to create my own summarized version of the lesson. I guess the Romanian educational system is not set up to encourage that kind of critical thinking which leads to taking good notes. While I was still in school, I didn't take too good notes. Over the last couple of months, I've read about various note-taking methods, different approaches and diverse goals for them and they helped me change my perspective on collecting ideas. After starting to use spaced repetition more actively and being more consistent with my journaling, now I've tackled improving my note taking skills.
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