Half a year ago I stumbled upon two notetaking tools of which one improved my life’s quality, so I thought I share my experience with the community. I’m not sponsored by either of these projects.

Both of these tools are powerful extendable markdown editors with a daily journal, calender function, TODO list and a knowledge base similar to a Wiki. Every page or block can be crosslinked, referenced or embedded. That way, I can keep an overview over my daily tasks with all necessary information directly accessible.

The one tool I use daily now, is Logseq. I synchronize my notes among all my devices via git. Works great under Linux, but I needed to install termux on Android. They are working on a sync service for logseq, which should make it more interesting for most users. There is one caveat though: It’s not on Google’s PlayStore, nor on f-droid.

The other similar tool, which I can recommend because it is more easily available, is Obsidian. The company also offers a sync service for premium users. I found one missing feature which is more a niche, but still a bummer: Code blocks cannot be indented.

What do you think? Do you use similar - maybe even better - note taking tools?

    • 667
      3•1 year ago

      What are some of the key differences between Obsidian and OneNote? Been using OneNote for some time now academically.

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        4•1 year ago

        i never did note interlinking in onenote, so idk if that’s there, but on obsidian is part of the core, and interlinking notes is essential for the zettelkasten/evergreen-notes note-taking process.

        i never used markdown on onenote either, dunno if that’s a thing, i see there’s a plugin, wonder how good it is

        obsidian’s best quality for me is self ownership, compared to onenote, where things are trapped there and i can download them maybe but it’s not something i truly own, i feel, while with obsidian, everything in there is just your files in your filesystem and you can just remove the ethernet cable and use it on an offline computer and just move it from computer to computer or upload individual files or whatever

        markdown is also plain text so it’s very lightweight to use, i’ve used obsidian in the shittiest smallest most garbage laptops out there with puppy linux and it runs beautifully and laglessly. it also has a cool mobile app.

        most cons have been removed little by little with progressive updtes. i don’t even know any cons right now.

        • 667
          2•1 year ago

          Nice, there’s no markdown in oN but it does standard text formatting as expected. I use oN for Mac which is particularly limited in its featureset, but it’s what I’ve got.

          I’m going to check out the note-taking systems you’ve mentioned and Obsidian; I appreciate it!