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[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

Bunch of ideas in this thread. Does anyone know of a good solution for reading text files (markdown) in a folder? I tried flat notes (too bare bones), An Otter Wiki (it was fine, but I couldn't get into it). I'll try silverbullet.

[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Trying out typemill. Seems ok so far.

Edit: crap. Search requires a license.

Obsidian does that. But I don't believe it's FOSS

[–] DragonBard@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 days ago

VSCode with Foam. Or go old school with Vim Wiki.

[–] flightyhobler@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That website scrolls funny on my Firefox mobile. Is that a sample of what to expect from the actual software?

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

Looks fine to me (Firefox 142.0.1 on GrapheneOS 2025081400 on a Pixel 8).

[–] ObsidianZed@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This looks like it could be an open source alternative to obsidian.md. Would anyone be able to speak to that?

[–] Holli25@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is. The differece is that Silverbullet is self-hosted and not in app like Obsidian. The basics are the same, Obsidian has a way bigger community and more plugins, Silverbullet is easier to extend due to using Lua. Lastly, Silverbullet has queries built in, in Obsidian you have to use Dataview. If you need a markdown-based note storing system Silverbullet is great. Obsidian has more bling and customizability, but is not self-hostable.

[–] DragonBard@ttrpg.network 3 points 6 days ago

Obsidian now has a native query ability via the Bases core plugin. I've barely played with it though.

[–] interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I'm curious how it compares with trilium

[–] conrad82@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I like what I am hearing. I was a big fan in the beginning, but it developed to add more and more features and some breaking changes, and I decided to stop using it until the bleeding edge development slows down

What is the outlook regarding breaking changes in v2? Should I wait a bit?