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Obsidian is now free for work

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by hisamafahri

1 day ago

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crooked-v

23 hours ago

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I feel like the Obsidian Publish pricing model is a bit off. Having it "per site" feels like nickel-and-diming for small things that's kept me on Notion for a lot of miscellaneous web-published projects. It would be more appealing for at least me if it was something with a higher flat rate that then doesn't care about the exact divisions between your projects.

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bdzr

3 hours ago

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Interesting. I usually don't complain about prices because I wish more products charged, but I always found the publish pricing to just be too high altogether. I have a blog that's a few simple markdown files and it's easily worth the pain of setting up GitHub pages instead of paying $8/mo. Maybe I'm not the target market though.

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aosaigh

23 hours ago

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I agree. I have a number of vaults and would love to pay for Sync + Publish to host them online, but I can't justify paying for 3 separate Publish instances.

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ldoughty

23 hours ago

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Doing a quick look at their homepage and pricing pages I don't think it's communicating it's value proposition well... Or I just don't understand this use case. Am I missing something?

Is there more to this than syncing notes across devices and (optionally) hosting them on a web page? Maybe 'notes' isn't the best term, but that's the term the site uses ... Does seem to include markdownish support? And if you pay $96/year you get a node graphic layout option?

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samr71

23 hours ago

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It's just a really really good markdown editor. With some great power user features. Not sure what else to say!

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chrystalkey

23 hours ago

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*really really bloody good. i would more broadly say knowledge base? I have yet to find a tool that has so little friction in storing/retrieving (Text+img based) ideas + Interoperability + Speed

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mintplant

23 hours ago

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Do you have a good way of storing and organizing images (and other media) in Obsidian? It's the one aspect where I've found its functionality wanting.

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borgerc

21 hours ago

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I am surprised to hear this, as the Obsidian functionality is the only out-of-box offering I find acceptable in a corporate environment. Other alternatives like notion, logseq, joplin all break my workflow in spite of their selling points, because they do not simply store or reference a file. Obsidian is easy for me because I simply drag and drop something like a pdf or recording, and even if it is not a readable file within the Obsidian view, a file copy is dumped to the attachments folder without altering any of the metadata and a simple path reference is inserted in the fancy-markdown document. You can configure different workspaces/settings to dump to different folders if needed, but I treat mine mostly as a dumping ground that I manage similar to a bucket. If I need to audit images I can simply look at the folder with another program.

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abdullahkhalids

23 hours ago

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I thought you can just embed images and other media [1]. They have to be stored in the attachments folder [2].

[1] https://help.obsidian.md/Linking+notes+and+files/Embed+files

[2] https://help.obsidian.md/Contributing+to+Obsidian/Style+guid...

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hagen_dogs

18 hours ago

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iiuc, it's both. drag / paste an image into obsidian it will automatically be stored in your attachments folder (regardless of what note you're in) and a preview is placed in the note itself

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slightwinder

5 hours ago

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That's not really my experience. It depends on your browser and configuration on how well this works. Firefox for example does not work, but chrome does. With Firefox it instead creates a broken <a>-link with nested <img>.

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kvdveer

23 hours ago

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For me, the value proposition is twofold:

- the multidevice sync allows me to write both as an impulse (on my phone) and structurally (on my computer)

- I derive value from Obsidian. It is genuinely very good. I want this company to have a decent survival chance.

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nanook

2 hours ago

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How is obsidian sync any different/better than putting your vault on gdrive/icloud etc?

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dtkav

22 minutes ago

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it is end-to-end encrypted

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wduquette

22 hours ago

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I don't actually use Obsidian's syncing feature or web publishing.

I use Obsidian to write and manage large collections of linked notes, like a personal Wiki; only I don't need to host a wiki somewhere, and the files are just plain text files. It's become one of my killer apps, one where I manage all of my background notes for the projects I work on. It suits the way I think, and I find it more useful and more friendly than other apps of its type.

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hagen_dogs

18 hours ago

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really good markdown editor, overwhelming amount of community plugins, all data's local and stored in plaintext. app itself is free, easy syncing option is the $4/month (with afew other nice to haves) though there are ways to do it for free (syncthing, but that's changing with the ST team not supporting andriod anymore and apple is weird too).

I've now been using it for ~3 years and I do everything in it. wonderful, wondeful tool

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t0bia_s

10 hours ago

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logseq is open source, free, markdown editor, support many plugins and it's actually really fast.

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gnabgib

1 day ago

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Discussion (54 points, 31 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43115767

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aendruk

3 hours ago

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Ironic. Two days ago I migrated all my notes to Joplin specifically avoid Obsidian’s complicated licensing around commercial use.

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otterpro

22 hours ago

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Aww man, I just paid for one out of my pocket just few weeks ago, after procrastinating for months. I use Obsidian for taking notes on my work laptop. I think I'm the only one at work who uses Obsidian, and everyone else at work use OneNote or just plain text or something else. Anyway, I hope Obsidian continues to thrive, as it was the only note app that was good enough to make me switch from vim (and onenote and nvalt). I feel it is the only note app that really understands its users, and it shames all other commercial note apps.

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soupfordummies

20 hours ago

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I would love to switch from onenote and ive played with obsidian a bit and even use it on some projects.

I guess what holds me back is the recursion/hierarchy of notebooks>tab groups>tabs>pages>subpages

I also really like the text-boxes, canvas-style of onenote and the easy customization of page styles on OneNote.

How hard is it to replicate that kinda thing in Obsidian?

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dnel

10 hours ago

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Good, but I'm now deep into logseq for work use and switching now is unlikely. Their previous terms were a barrier, it created a chicken and egg problem that meant I never got onboard enough to consider paying for a license. Most people I know that got into it did so outside of work but I never had a need for it there.