i don’t think this is going to replace obsidian for me. it seems like it would be a decently clunkier enough way of doing the same thing i’ve wanted to do all along, and which i think i have a pretty good chance of doing here anyway.
(or maybe it’s not too much clunkier, but i have a significant amount of history built up in markdown and moving it to something similarly-markdown makes things a bit easier, plus i like obsidian’s plugins. still, there’s something to be said for simplicity)
maybe another place my mind goes to how i really wanted to set up an intranet booru system for a long time, because it would make it much it so much easier to find my images. but, since it was so clunky to set them up and tag them, i didn’t get much use out of the idea until i learned about hydrus and clung to that.
and i think it might be the same here: as appealing as having everything present through a web interface sounds, it might turn into a real hassle with the size of the notebook we’re dealing with. something like this could be really nice with a slim journal, and i think there should be more slim journals out in the world. but i have to wonder how it would handle something like what this has become…
still, there are some interesting essays on this website:
- Essay / On Hierarchies
- i think i understand what it’s going for with how hierarchies encourage slamming ill-fitting (or category-transcending) notes into exactly one or the other category. i’ve yet to find a really clean way to solve this, since a perfectly nonhierarchical system would lead to thousands of notes being spooged out onto the main directory, with no hope of sorting them outside of the system.
- life outside a hierarchical system also works for note structures which will necessarily contain a high degree of backlinking. but here, do i have too many orphans to make that feasible? though do i expect to find these orphans through other means, like through dataview?
- Rejected Features / Tags
- he’s right. tags are clunky here. i really don’t like how they seem to prefer linking to the file itself as opposed to the heading, making all tags filetags (though that’s mostly an issue in the headings).
- i really should try incorporating tag pages maybe…
- i should also do more with frontmatter honestly, and use that for categorization when it seems appropriate (i’m feeling that way more and more with the genre tags…)