{"id":157,"date":"2023-07-15T11:39:23","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T11:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/?p=157"},"modified":"2023-07-15T12:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T12:00:08","slug":"note-taking-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/2023\/07\/15\/157\/","title":{"rendered":"Note Taking Software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When planning anything, taking notes is very important (The Brain tends to forget). I use notepads and stickynotes, but also some software. My personal budget and gym-logger is in LibreOffice Calc. For temporary stuff and creative planning I also use moinmoin wiki.<\/p>\n<p>Few days ago I stumbled on Obsidian. This is a note taking software that could replace moinmoin. Not that there is anything wrong with moin, but it is a wiki and since it is only accessible on localhost I can&#8217;t access my notes if I&#8217;m &#8220;elsewhere&#8221;. Both solutions have data in cleartext so if something goes wrong everything is easily accessible.<\/p>\n<p>After using Obisdian for 3 days I can make some comments and comparisons between the two.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>FLOSS: Both are free, but moinmoin is also opensource.<\/li>\n<li>Installation is much simpler with obsidian since it&#8217;s only executable and for moin you basically run a python server also simple to setup, but in comparison a bit trickier.<\/li>\n<li>Navigation: Both have text and hyperlinks. Hyperlinks take you elsewhere, basic stuff. Obsidian has a graphview that shows also the links that aren&#8217;t in the other file. So a simple referral makes a backlink entry to the other.<\/li>\n<li>Media: moinmoin has more control on media, it&#8217;s quite simple to set image width and height &#8211; on obsidian you can only change the width.<\/li>\n<li>Error Correction: So let&#8217;s assume that I make a typo on titling the page i&#8217;m writing and link it anyway. In moimoin I&#8217;d have to fix every link that points to the page, but in obsidian I only need to change the page title and every link is changed to point to that.<\/li>\n<li>Sync: Obsidian offers paid sync service, but since the files are just -md files in some directory, it should be possible to use a sync-tool to mirror this between the devices. As for moinmoin syncing is much harder as you&#8217;d need to sync the server files that are edited and i&#8217;m not sure how to do that. But I do recall that moinmoin could be installed into usb-stick to make it portable.<\/li>\n<li>Customizability: as a webserver moinmoin is themeable. Obsidian on the otherhand not only has themes (I haven&#8217;t used those) offers a lot of plugins to extend the functionality and my favorite is that you can customize the keyboard shortcuts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep on using Obsidian and wait that Proton releases a Desktop Sync software. Then I can test it on my tablet.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/moinmo.in\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/moinmo.in\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/obsidian.md\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/obsidian.md\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When planning anything, taking notes is very important (The Brain tends to forget). I use notepads and stickynotes, but also some software. My personal budget and gym-logger is in LibreOffice Calc. For temporary stuff and creative planning I also use moinmoin wiki. Few days ago I stumbled on Obsidian. This is a note taking software&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imxn.net\/wp2x\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}