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I liked my graph colors, but we'll see if I can ever figure out how to get it into a similar state to what it originally looked like without being a pain in the ass to organize like the older system...

I prefer ISO; not for any particular reason.

"the public transportation pervert gets off at every stop"

I love public transit

I've been obsessed with Notebook Navigator. It overhauls the file explorer pane into something closer to other apps like Apple Notes.

That's valid; Obsidian may be proprietary but I trust the team because they're small and seem to value letting users customize basically everything to their liking.

As for markdown, yeah, not much I can do there to sugarcoat it. If you don't like markdown it's not for you.

And in case David Walters sees this and tries Obsidian, there is a plugin that makes navigation on the sidebar much friendlier to people from other note-taking apps too.

The plugin is called "Notebook Navigator." It might not be exactly like OneNote, but it's better than just files and folders.

WHAT?! THIS IS SO COOL?!!?!

Beecat and Akkeri for sure :3

As for writing advice, all I can really supply is this article: substack.com/home/post/p-...

I don't publish much writing, but I figure 700+ personal notes is solid. Observing things & recording it, writing about stuff you learn, and jotting your thoughts down is great. Ideas will come if you do.

Though if you need your writing synced across multiple devices then Obsidian might not be for you (as you would have to pay for it)

For a Docs alternative I'd expect LibreOffice to suffice as a word processor.

But if you don't need a full on word processor for your writing, I might suggest something simpler like a markdown editor. There's many, but my favorite is Obsidian.

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Obsidian definitely isn't for everyone, but I'm glad that you took some of the lessons learned in using Obsidian to improve your Notion workflows.

Something of note is that "Multiplayer" is a planned feature in the Obsidian Roadmap, and Obsidian Publish lets you make notes public (but it's paid).

Fair enough; feel free to let me know how that goes. I'm curious about Logseq.

Hopefully that goes well; I've heard both good and bad things about Logseq, but I'm fairly comfortable where I'm at with Obsidian, so I have very little intention of trying it out on desktop soon.

Besides, Logseq is more of an outliner from what I hear, which doesn't suit me super well.

It's definitely not something that'll benefit every person. And from what I can tell, it can be a bit high maintenance to keep up.

I'm sure you'll find something that works for you though, just gotta keep looking :3

I'm with Obsidian here too, though Thymer seems very interesting to me.

I'll have to see how the project and its community evolves before using it, but it looks incredibly cool :3

As a bit of a warning, Obsidian has a learning curve to it so I'd try to familiarize yourself with the fact that it's all a bunch of markdown files on your computer.

If you understand markdown you should be fine. If you need better navigation I might suggest the Notebook Navigator plugin.