![]() ![]() Best functionality is for knowledge management and longer form writing, for both of those it is a distinct pleasure to use. It has spoiled me for any other note app. Support for the developers is only through their publish and sync services, neither is required to use all the functions of the product. Free full functionality in a data format that guarantees you can never lose access to your work. The combination is incredible and the Obsidian developers provide huge value for free across multiple platforms. Have been using Obisidan in beta for the past year and in the mobile beta since its inception. Forget Roam, Logseq, any of the other imitators - Obsidian is your answer. If you need more than basic note tools will give you then this is it. But, the reason I feel so strongly about it, there is an UNENDING level of customizability that comes from the deeply dedicated community and their custom plugins and themes - which the developer personally reviews and approves. The app itself - amazing note taking app right out of the box that does not gate your data - take it and leave whenever you want. I enjoy the desktop version more than the mobile version, but based on the insane features they just dropped on the desktop version (0.16) - I know the mobile version will be perfect at some point. I have paid everything I can at the highest tier because this is my most used tool - but I didn’t really have to pay anything at all. ![]() ![]() They give you a million outs to not pay them a DIME. They listen to the community but do not let it steer them in the wrong direction. The updates, bug fixes, and announcements are lightning fast. The development is done by a very small, very talented team. I believe that it is a matter of willingness and prioritization until we see an Obsidian search that works.I have used, researched, and thought about more productivity apps than your average nerd… this is simply the best, in all cases. There are some excellent indexing and searching libraries in the JavaScript space ( lunr.js, fuse.js, etc.). No more scrolling through a hundred results to find the most matching one - it will appear at the top of the list. As said, things are more complex because a few other factors are involved, but you get the basic idea. The app will return a list of results sorted by the number of matching query terms in each using the index. While the real index is a bit more complex, the basic principle is this: when typing a specific search query, it also gets split into terms. The trick lies in keeping an index of words (terms) pointing to the documents (notes) in which they occur. Relevance search is what we’ve come to know from state-of-the-art search engines like Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and within popular note-taking and document-manage- went solutions like Evernote and Google Docs. This is how you get the most relevant answer from the first try, not after tweaking filter and sorting options for 10 minutes. ![]() Quality research tools need the ability to sort search results by the relevance of the query. Those are all fine, but not if you have to apply all possible combinations until you find what you need. To make things worse, we have a multitude of options for filter narrowing and sorting. It might be helpful if you have 100 notes in your vault, but not 10000. What Obsidian calls “search” is nothing but a simple keyword filter. Take my word when I say that - I have worked with, maintained, and even worked on search engines of many sorts. Obsidian’s search is far from sufficient. However, if you plan to bet the future of your research or knowledge management on it, I think you should be aware of something. There are many good reasons to use Obsidian for your note-taking. ![]()
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