I’ll go ahead and start on this one:
After being shown what Obsidian can do by my producer, Neigsendoig, I wanted to set up an Obsidian vault for when I would eventually start doing narration for Cocules Reddit Readings (currently inactive because I hadn’t really recorded anything in a while since my debut on the channel), and making the scripts for it with a few plugins. My experience has been positive for something that’s local-first (which the two of us have been going full-send on lately), and I’m already in love (so is Neigsendoig, in fact).
That’s my experience in a nutshell.
I can’t help myself. I just can’t stop snorting obsidian. Every night I obsessively go to my workshop. There I remove a small flake of obsidian glass I keep in a special leather pouch. Over the course of the next hour, I obsessively grind down the flake into powder, finer and finer. At last, when the right consistency is reached, I take out a piece of glass and create a fine line of obsidian dust on a mirror. Then, I simply snort it. What the strangest of addictions I have. I simply must use obsidian. It’s a compulsion summoned from some part inside of me; I cannot say where. And no, I cannot simply reuse last night’s grindings. I need that fresh glass man. I throw away probably 90% of what I grind each night, but that’s just a necessary part of the process. I don’t even get high afterwards. I simply must snort obsidian, and I don’t know why. Just gotta have my black glass.
I graduated to it from OneNote because it was way smoother, and I could type LaTeX equations much faster than dealing with the WYSIWYG editor in OneNote when I was doing math-intensive courses at Uni. Being able to hyperlink notes was a huge power-up. Really as easy as imagining one’s own personal Wikipedia. Brilliant.
I have been using Obsidian for a long time. Started using it at the end of my time in school and now it is my “second brain” as they say. I have a sync sub and they way they handle it is fantastic. They email a week before the sub is due (I have a yearly plan) to remind you it is coming. I have 3 different vaults to keep a few things compartmentalized. And I just got my own sync server set up locally with the community-made live sync, which so far has been better than Obsidian Sync. I love that even if they took the program to a subscription model I would be able to keep my files with out having to convert them or export them.
Which self hosted sync solution are you using? When I was looking into Obsidian I couldn’t find an easy solution that would also work with iOS.
Obsidian live sync is the one I am using. I just age it running in a docker container.
I recommend using iCloud for sync instead if you’re on Apple.
I’ve been building my own Call of Cthulhu campaign, using it to map out all the scenarios, scenes, characters, and monsters that are needed. It’s great for visually seeing all the links between things, especially after adding tags to them and color coding the graph view.
I love the fact that it stores everything in .md format so they are easily transferable to something else, there’s no locking you into proprietary formats.
Using SyncThing to sync between devices easily is also very handy (I recommend checking it out if you’re looking for a good cloud drive replacement and are fine with self hosting the backup machine yourself).
Syncthing is great for backups, but you have to make sure to change the options for your sync folders to not sync deletions. Otherwise you can potentially delete all your data
OneNote is better for note-taking incorporating a pen (stylus), and Dynalist is better for lists, but Obsidian is decent for both and has some unique add-ons (Leaflet map plugin). I still use all three.
