I can tinker, but I’d rather get on with writing text, not code, not searching for plug-ins, etc. Obsidian has a lot going for it, but I really am not someone who enjoys tinkering. Finally, I have just enough familiarity with Perl that it’s an option for mass conversion, And I need to be able to eat-and-spit (import and export) reliably, for the long haul. I need an app that I can see and easily read the output (visual issues) and that will work with screen readers. I’m writing a lot in Bear, still, and it produces quite clean html. I have BBEdit and templates and TextExpander, and use them. I’m quite fast with HTML, and I’ve used basic tags so very much for work (among other things, I used to convert several thousand syllabi to html pages, for work, several time a year) that I’ve got muscle memory for it. So I’d be interested in alternatives to Obsidian, but I do have some pretty strict requirements! Suggestions welcome!ĭon’t laugh, but at this point, I’m using hand-coded HTML. If they can just export to Markdown, that’s a halfway point, but it’ll normally only take you in one direction, and to fulfil my first criterion, they need to be able to do that with all your data in a single operation. This is only possible, though, when your tools use the filesystem instead of a custom database, and Markdown instead of a custom format.
A friend of mine who writes a lot of long-form stuff and, like me, uses Ulysses to do so, was delighted when I pointed out that Ulysses can be pointed at external folders, and so you can include your Obsidian data in your Ulysses world, and write any given chunk of text with the tool of your choice. I don’t find it nearly as nice a place actually to write notes as, say, Bear was. I switched to it because I thought automatic reverse-linking would be a really useful feature, and I’ve almost never used it. I tend to use things with real keyboards for writing, but if somebody calls me while I’m walking the dog, I need to be able to look things up easily on my phone.Īt the moment, I use and like Obsidian, but can’t help feeling that the vast number of features can be a distraction from the task in hand. Will it sync, and be accessible, across both my Macs, my iPad and my iPhone without needing some external service? (beyond the iCloud, SynologyDrive and Dropbox I already use). This freedom to do a quick and complete move when wanted is doubly important for any app that wants to charge me a subscription! Markdown is a great lingua franca, and had enabled much of this flexibility, but it’s also a fairly low common denominator. If I adopt a new app like Craft (which I admired when I tried it some time ago), but it offers new features like an unusual block structure, or hand-written annotations, I have to wonder what happens to those when I next switch. This is especially the case when it’s something as important as my main note-taking and knowledge system, and I know it’s a good question because my data has moved from VoodooPad to Apple Notes, to Day One, to some hand-coded scripts, to Bear, to Obsidian in the past (and several more before that that I can’t immediately remember now). How easy will it be to get all my data out, in a usable form, in three years time when I want to switch again?
#Voodoopad for writers pro#
Pro tip, from Scott Rosenberg: Whatever you use, be sure it has a plain-text export, for archiving, and because technologies and programs will change.Īlso, as raised by Laura Newman, Steve Silberman’s list of tips from authors of things you should think about as you start a book or big project.My number one rule when switching to any new tool is:
Youtube (closed-captioning as a quick-and-dirty draft transcription).
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