And here's a specific example: https://www.reddit.com/r/autism/comments/146fb4d/downvotes/

I honestly don't use the mobile app much, but when I tried to use Roam's app in a doctor visit, it was embarrassing to wait 30 seconds for it to load. It was doubly embarrassing when I compulsively closed the app and had to open it again 🙃

I hope you post about your experience experimenting with Obsidian :)

There are lots of different ways to compare, but with Obsidian I like

• that I spend zero ongoing cognitive energy on security/privacy/availability concerns
• first-class aliases
• speed
• easy to backup continuously
• local graph view
• (while I don't use it much,) the mobile app is much more solid
• the leadership and the business
• I find it easier to do long-form writing

I do miss Roam's outliner and backlinks sometimes, but not enough to have bothered with a plugin yet. I also wasn't sure about Roam's future, and remained a paid subscriber to support them until I saw how the CEO had decided to moderate the subreddit.

Oh gosh, I really wish I had a proper PKMS back when I was at university. I would have done exponentially better, I'm excited for you 😆

I like your PDF pipeline! I do that manually sometimes but I usually just grab text. I've been meaning to dig into RSS too, with my primary feed (reddit) largely going away and Lemmy not having as much content right now, I want to curate a new, more mindful feed.

I use Obsidian and today was thinking about how I would "never" use Evernote for certain reasons, but I was just looking at your link to DEVONthink and I realize that I'd have to use a service like that for certain scanning/searching features if I had to scan papers as it sounds like you did.

Do you have any favorite personal examples of DEVONthink doing something that is ahead of the curve? Also, how was effort of scanning?

The problem is that even though you and me are ok with not having an app, most people need an app 🤷

Even though I prefer Obsidian now, Roam was like being able to run after only having crawled with Google Docs. It changed how I approach thinking.

It's not a 404 anymore and I was able to subscribe like expected 🤷 I'm on lemmy.blahaj.zone

I get a 404 from that link, and the /c/things above aren't links for me, still learning Lemmy...

If Obsidian wasn't around, I would look closely at Tiddlywiki and emacs org-mode. I wish I had Obsidian back when I was new to coding! And backlinks can be cool, and I do use them, but less than once a month.

I love Obsidian! I haven't been worldbuilding with it much lately but I love that I can easily go back to my notes.

I'm ace-spec non-aro and nonbinary as well! Gray ace and polyamorous, though I used to feel more identified with demisexuality.