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Congratulations, and also: holy fucking shit!! no app has changed my day-to-day life to this degree in many, many years.

I use Obsidian every morning on my roof deck for my journal (automated with the plugin, of course) and then at my desk all day long for my daily WTF blah blah info-capturing tool.

Sure I wish it had more features (persist collapsed/expanded state, even in a best-effort, might-not-last-forever kind of way! build in git support because apple makes it too hard for plugin guys to do on mobile!) but the fact that it is all just "standard" markdown and image files washes away all almost my complaints.

I use the paid Sync plugin, too (even though it's standard files and folders; could totally do it myself! could totally just use SyncThing! etc!) so that it is on all my machines and virtual machines. Perfect for sysadmin logs of things you touch only annually, e.g. Dad's iMac.

To HN readers who haven't tried it: it's the millennials' VisiCalc, basically, except for words.



there's a plugin for folding persistence.. it has a silly name like pants or ironing or something but it works welll


I think you’re looking for what some pants have - Creases https://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-creases


What plugin do you use for automatic journaling?


Automatic journaling is a built-in plugin called "Daily Notes".

You just enable it in the "Options → Core plugins" pane in the settings.


What other plugins do you use besides the Sync plugin?


Only the Calendar one.




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