Imperatrix Siina Mar 9
Okay so I think I need to re-do my personal knowledge thing from scratch.

Is obsidian still a thing people use? I've tried logseq but it pains me. Things based on emacs are a no for me since I don't use it.
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@siina alternativeto.net is your friend. Opinionated (complains about shitware and abusive software). Near universal catalog of "things that are like thing".

I have been using Obsidian for a year or two. I hate it less than all the alternatives. A lot of people like it. I especially appreciate its tables/database feature since late 2025. My monthly diary pages are now just a query of "what pages are tagged wit this month?", showing columns for project, page type, title, etc.

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@siina I used Zim Desktop Wiki for years. I contributed to the Windows build/install process for Zim. Zim is good, but doesn't actually work well most years on Windows, thanks to depending on GTK, which stopped caring about Windows forever ago.
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@siina I used LogSeq for a few months and never could get along with its "folders don't have a page body" limitation. (There's a plugin to fix that in Obsidian.)

I looked at LogSeq again a few months ago. Seems to have got better, but. But I didn't try switching from Obsidian.

If you use Obsidian, pick and try out plugins in a Sandbox notebook. Avoid installing more plugins than you absolutely need.

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@siina I've only ever tried apps that work with text files in a set of folders.
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@siina also, after you become a student of Obsidian, tell "Theo - t3.gg" he should move his business processes to it.
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@progo i don't know them nor do i care what they use. i don't know why people bother to shit on someone for their choices. freedom of choice includes freedom to use things like notion or windows.
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@siina it's partly shitting on Theo's choices, and partly stupidly making a suggestion because the viewer sees a match where there isn't one, and the viewer has no idea what Notion actually does for workgroups, but they love Obsidian. And then speaking without even looking to see if someone else did yet.