Program: Obsidian
License: Free Personal • Proprietary
Description: Powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
Website: https://obsidian.md/
Feature
- #Tags
- $$LaTeX math$$
- [^Footnotes]
- [[Internal links]]
- ![[Filename]] to embed notes and other files
- backlinks and graph view
- Command palette
- Open in default app
- Plugins
- etc
Other: Obsidian is 100% free for personal and educational use. You don't even need an account to use it. In Obsidian, making and following [[connections]] is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph. Note-taking is incredibly personal.
Obsidian is built to be extensible. With 22 core plugins and 237 community plugins, set up your own toolkit and get running in minutes. In our age when cloud services can shut down, get bought, or change privacy policy any day, the last thing you want is proprietary formats and data lock-in.
With Obsidian, your data sits in a local folder. Never leave your life's work held hostage in the cloud again. Plain text Markdown also gives you the unparalleled interoperability to use any kind of sync, encryption, or data processing that works with plain text files.
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Obsidian is really great and currently the de facto application for this.
It would be highly useful to have it in the suite.
Hi, I came across this simple batch file, on Obidian community (nice, sharing chap, I'll go back and thank, now I've tried it), it creates a directory system, local to the Obsidian.exe, wherever you put it - plus all else, as installed in ~/Appdata/Local/ point at 'your' vault - copied, including plugins, etc., or new...
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@echo off
:: Creating Folders
if not exist "%~dp0User\ProgramData" mkdir "%~dp0User\ProgramData"
if not exist "%~dp0User\Public" mkdir "%~dp0User\Public"
if not exist "%~dp0User\AppData\Roaming" mkdir "%~dp0User\AppData\Roaming"
if not exist "%~dp0User\Documents" mkdir "%~dp0User\Documents"
if not exist "%~dp0User\AppData\Local\Temp" mkdir "%~dp0User\AppData\Local\Temp"
:: Setting Env Variables
set ALLUSERSPROFILE=%~dp0User\ProgramData\Roaming
set APPDATA=%~dp0User\AppData
set LOCALAPPDATA=%~dp0User\AppData\Local
set HOMEPATH=%~dp0User
set ProgramData=%~dp0User\ProgramData
set Public=%~dp0User\Public
set TEMP=%~dp0User\AppData\Local\Temp
set TMP=%~dp0User\AppData\Local\Temp
set USERPROFILE=%~dp0User
:: if not exist "%dp0User\Documents\Obsidian" goto message
goto message
goto start
:message
echo PORTABLE Obsidian
echo -------------------------------
pause
:start
start Obsidian.exe
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Cheers, enjoy!
Jay
Hi, Jey, i saw this solution, but it is not the same as portableapps launcher or x-launcher or yaP(with symlinks)
any news regarding the paf installer?
Rocking for the One who is the Rock
You can use this portable version:
https://portableapps.com/node/68172