alt Hacker NewsWhat’s the benefit of tools like Obsidian vs using whatever code editor you have on hand? Why would I use it over vs, say, vs code?
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gesis • today at 9:15 PM
Obsidian works on my phone without janky workarounds.
That one simple trick makes it incredibly useful for its intended purpose.
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ergocoder • today at 8:01 PM
Formatting, syncing, and organization but yeah the benefits are too small for many people including me. I just use vscode.
However, enough people find those things valuable enough that Obsidian has millions of paying users.
I don't think software really need to penetrate more than 1% of the market to be profitable. If Obsidian penetrated even 10% of the market, they would have been worth >$30B lol.
zaphirplane • today at 9:19 PM
It’s the linking, write preview. The usability really
For me it's the combination of:
1. Multimedia. I have a cookbook with photos and videos in my Obsidian, as well as songbooks with musical notation that renders properly.
2. Databases. e.g. for an international vacation I created the itinerary as a "Base" (structured database) that rendered out to a calendar and day-by-day pages. This even included floating itinerary items like "eat X kind of cuisine" to squeeze in on any day, shopping lists for gifts to bring back, as well as all train routes, flight numbers, hotel/ticket confirmation numbers and the like. Then on each day I could journal what we did and see what we still had to do. I was able to share these with everyone on the trip and make sure everyone got to experience their must-see items.
3. You can argue all of the above would also work as a website. But Obsidian makes this work across my phones and tablets too, in a way that I can edit from mobile whenever I need to jot down a quick edit. That's the killer feature.