Father_Redbeard @ Father_Redbeard @lemmy.ml

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In this space, I think Acreom will be the one to beat once their road map is a bit further along. For example: making it open source and including local only option for Android. On that last piece, I don't know if iOS does it, but with Android you have to sync with their cloud whereas desktop versions don't even require a sign in, tested on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. So not there for me yet, but is very promising.

Try RISC OS first. It won't do what you're asking for, but it's a super neat vintage OS!

I already answered, but I'm curious if anyone else can speak to using Tiddlywiki for purposes of DnD notes. It's always intrigued me as an app, but my brain doesn't seem to want to get along with it apparently.

I showed my son Obsidian and a little explanation of how markdown works. Explaining the draw (to me at least) is that I can format text without taking my hands of the keyboard. A few hours later he tells me he discovered that there are shortcut buttons a the top of the screen to do bold, italics, underscore, etc and "you just need to click on them so it's a shortcut!"

I do like markdown editors that do the live preview of the rendered text instead of the side-by-side view of Markdown on one and HTML on the other. Obsidian sort of just changes to rendered text as you type.

Came to say this. Great co-op fun.

That reasoning is precisely why I started using Obsidian. I was keeping notes in Google Keep and a journal in Day One. Both of which require exporting to get into a more universal format. Obsidian uses plain text files, which is great for my use case. Yes, I know it's not FOSS. But it fit my flow better than Logseq and Joplin hides the markdown in a db that also needs an export (plus the android app is awful).

Unfortunately, there's not a very smooth way to track habits in Obsidian even with plugins. There are a few available but they're all pretty clunky, so I've skipped on them.

So it does export as a .db and you can sort of make sense of it. But I also completely skipped over a setting that allows for a single tap to mark a day as successful. So that does make it easier to backfill for the year. But I'm still curious what other folks are using or if they've run into this.

Hey, there's an idea! I'll have to see what's possible.

Oh, I'm running Pop!_OS so it's running just fine. But like I said, I had it mixed up in my head that it was only e2, not their personal tier. But this is great. Thanks!

No worries at all. You just helped me make a decision. I've been an iDrive customer for years but recently switched to Linux for my primary OS and thought I was out of luck regarding the 5TB for $79/yr plan. So I'll have to investigate further.

Wait....the scripts work for iDrive personal? For some reason I thought they were for the e2 storage.

Vampire Survivor. So cheap but fun to jump in for a run or six.

Isn't that funny how different our experiences are? I liked Obsidian because it felt less cluttered than some of the others. But that might be the theme and fonts I set up, i'm not sure. I will agree with the sync. I'm fine paying for a service like that, but $8/mo paid annually is too much. I did end up paying for a year to see if it was worth it. And while it's flawless and fast, I can't justify that continued cost. Once my year is up I'll look at syncthing or the CouchDB plugin sync to see if that does what I want and performs well. Shouldn't be too hard as it's literally just folders full of plain text files...

Being platform agnostic was important to me, which is what lead me to Obsidian in the first place. Joplin stores the markdown files in a SQL db that requires additional steps to export or convert. I believe Logseq also does flat Markdown like Obsidian, but it just didn't click with me for some reason.

Ah, ok. Thanks for the explanation. I was wildly off in my visualization of how you were using it. The other poster in this thread is right, the Canvas function can do a lot of that. You'd have to try it to see if it actually fits your use case. Regarding the others mentioned, I'm not sure any of them can do it. But Obsidian canvas or you could also play with the Excalidraw plugin. Or just test it separately here and imagine that functionality within your notes app, that's what the plug in does.

Oh that's very helpful, thank you.

You can use the excalidraw plugin maybe? I guess I'm not understanding the placement work flow you're speaking of. All the options I listed are free so you can download and try them. Big feature of Obsidian is the plugin marketplace. But hey, if it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

Not FOSS but I see so many YouTubers that DM talk about Obsidian for notes. I use it and love it myself, just not for DnD stuff.

Logseq and Joplin are FOSS and are often brought up. Joplins android app is garbage, if that matters to you.

Acreom isn't FOSS yet, but it's on the roadmap and I liked that one.

Notesnook is FOSS but has some features behind a paywall that might be deal breakers for some folks.

I'd pay the $10/yr premium if you can swing it. The emergency contact recovery feature alone was more than worth it to me.

For 2FA, I highly recommend Aegis. I switched from both Google and Microsoft authenticator apps earlier this year and it's been great. I have the backups running automatically and it dumps it into a folder the Seafile is syncing for me. So not only do I have the backups on the server, but on the clients as well. Seafile is then backed up to an encrypted B2 bucket for further redundancy.

I actually lied

How dare you!

In all seriousness that's good to know. Gives me options to pick from. Thanks!