Looks great - so much so that I assumed it would be for Apple devices only, so congratulations and thanks for the Linux support.
I'll try it in a bake-off with Obsidian, but the main down-side for me is "notes stored on our servers" - I'd happily sacrifice the collaboration features for a self-hosted option with my data kept as regular text files as much as possible.
I haven't used obsidian, but have been using Logseq [1] (which a lot of people have mentioned to be similar) for over a year now and super happy with it.
The data is stored locally as md files, can be versioned using git which is a big plus for me. Also the workflowy-inspired zoomable bullet list is great to have for large outlines.
With the built in support for tags, image pasting, tasks, journaling, templates and static site publishing it just ticked every box I had out of the box, and I am yet to even start exploring its rich plugin ecosystem.
Oh, and its completely open source.
In the past year I've been on a journey of note-taking / personal knowledgebase:
- Trillium Notes [0]
- Joplin [1]
- others I can't remember
- Obsidian [2]
- Emacs/org-mode
- Logseq [3]
- and now back to Obsidian again
Logseq was really promising in concept - pulls a lot of cool concepts in from the others and supports org files. But I found it to be incredibly slow and laggy with my existing mixed org/markdown files. Unusably so, so I ditched it quickly.Obsidian has come a long way from where it was a year ago in terms of community plugins. There's some crazy stuff you can do with plugins like obsidian-dataview [4], obsidian-itinerary [5], quickadd [6], obsidian-Kanban [7]. It's no Emacs in terms of customizability, but it's pretty damned close. And Obsidian doesn't have the random freezes and random "oops I accidentally deleted a huge chunk of nested notes" that org-mode constantly exposed me to. I'm loving Obsidian (again). As long as you don't mind JavaScript for plugins and closed source core app, it's a super-powerful and performant option worth checking out.
The biggest thing Obsidian lacks right now that SuperNotes 2 seems to offer is good sharing / collaboration between people - for me, I just want to be able to have shared notes with my partner, but sharing with a team would be great, too. I'm not the target audience for SuperNotes 2, but it is good to continue to see competition in this space - the innovation it drives is exciting.
- [0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/
- [1] https://joplinapp.org/
- [2] https://obsidian.md/
- [3] https://logseq.com/
- [4] https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/
- [5] https://github.com/coddingtonbear/obsidian-itinerary
- [6] https://github.com/chhoumann/quickadd
- [7] https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-kanban
I also really like Admonition[1] to make styled blocks to format notes. Sliding panes(Andy Matushcak Mode)[2] makes the experience just more natural than windows that need to be resized, etc when switching context.
Found Admonition when learning about Zettelkasten via an efficient video by Artem Kirsanov[3]. Within 17 mins I got the system better than the scary 4 hour overkill vids out there.
[1] https://github.com/valentine195/obsidian-admonition [2] https://github.com/deathau/sliding-panes-obsidian [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6ySG7xYgjY&list=PL7eDrfPCCa...