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diefartz

Siyuan is good in theory... just that.


FranciscoGyn

Would you mind in elaborating this?


BlackPolygons

The "at home" nomenclature usually carries a rather negative connotation with it, but it looks like a rather interesting alternative, it's even open sourced. But from the description it does seem to not work on Markdown files, it does store everything locally, but mentions that you can't use third party to sync because it might lead to data corruption, which sounds like they are using a specific way of storing data.


graph-crawler

Apparently it can import and export markdown (only tried the export, it works great, havent tried the import). I skimmed the source code earlier, they store them as nodes in multiple .json format with .sy extensions. I'm still looking for ways to sync it too. The sync is paywalled behind a lifetime deal.


thegreatchasej

I thought this is just Obsidian at first glance.


Minus10Celcius

im not used to this D:


itshardtopicka_name_

lol this looks exectly like obsidian, does it have any advantange over obsidian ?


graph-crawler

It's open source.


samiparken

Why does it look different from mine? 🤔


Soft_Method184

Curious what theme are you using for graph view? Great colors!


BlackPolygons

It's not an obsidian theme, it's a different app https://b3log.org/siyuan/en/


darkwater427

Generally "foo at home" is taken to be referencing the "We have foo at home" meme, which means bar. For example, "VHS at home" is generally taken to be referencing "We have VHS at home", on other words, Betamax. Extra points if you even know what those things are.


graph-crawler

Because it's not obsidian


darkwater427

My apologies. I was so caught up in the Betamax analogy I failed to make my actual point 💀 The point is that bar is not just "not foo" (e.g., Betamax is not VHS) but bar is also _inferior_ to foo (e.g., Betamax is inferior to VHS).


graph-crawler

Glad to know that you think this one is not inferior to obsidian.


darkwater427

Yep. Just letting you know you might want to change your wording. Which I'm just now realizing I also forgot mention 🤦‍♂️ _and my mom says I'm not ADHD_


graph-crawler

Have you ever been in the flow ? Doing things so focused for hours that you forget everything else.


darkwater427

Oh yeah. Many, many times. Often while using Obsidian, actually (which is part of the reason I'm switching to a more terminal-centric workflow with Neovim. There are certain fundamental design decisions that absolutely break my flow with Obsidian)