Obsidian.md VS Fantasia Archive

Obsidian.md Reviews

1. MTRG15    

   8 months ago
   The kind of software that may change your life

   Perhaps you know someone who swears by Obsidian, it may seem like a cult of overly devoted people for how passionate they are, but it's not without reason

   I've been using Obsidian for over 3 years, at a point in my life when I felt I had to handle too much information and I felt like grasping water not being able to remember everything I wanted, language learning, programming, accounting, university, daily tasks. A friend recommended it to me next to Notion (of which he is a passionate cultist priest) and I reluctantly picked it and fell in love almost immediately.

   Obsidian seems very simple, like a notepad with folder interface, similar to Sublime Text, but the ability to link files together in a Wiki style allows you to organize ideas in any way you want, one file may lead to a dozen or more ideas that are related

   If you want to do something specific, Obsidian has a plethora of community created plugins that expand the functionality, in my case, I use obsidian to organize my classes both as a teacher and as a student, using local databases, calendars, dictionaries, slides, vector graphic drawings, excel-like tables, Anki connection, podcasts, and more

   🏁 Competitors: Notion, Evernote

   👍 Pros:    Awesome community|Custom plugins|Local hosting|Beautiful themes|Highly customizable|Cloud storage|Becomes more useful over time|Markdown support

   👎 Cons:    Seems complicated/complex at first|Takes time to set up your personal workspace|Overwhelming for first time user
2. Stan    

   Founder at SaaSHub | almost 2 years ago
   My personal knowledge-base of choice

   I've been using Obsidian for more than a year. It's been great. I think it offer a great balance of control, flexibility and extensibility. What is more, you own your own data, that's been a must-have feature for me. I just can't imagine putting all my knowledge into something that I don't have control over.

   I think two of the most popular alternatives that people consider are Logseq and Roam Research. Although Logseq is a bit different, it's considered compatible with Obsidian. Supposedly, you can use them with a shared database (files. Both use simple text files for storage). I tried that once, a few months ago. It worked, yet it messed up a bit my Obsidian files ¯_(ツ)_/¯.

   🏁 Competitors: Logseq, Roam Research

Fantasia Archive Reviews

Obsidian.md mentions (1447)

• Show HN: Reor – An AI note-taking app that runs models locally

  Great job! I played around with this on a couple of small knowledge bases using an open Hermes model I had downloaded. The “related notes” feature didn't provide much value in my experience, often the link was so weak it was nonsensical. The Q&A mode was surprisingly helpful for querying notes and providing overviews, but asking anything specific typically just resulted in less than helpful or false answers. I'm... - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• Why use Obsidian for software development?

  I like to use Obsidian as a super notebook that is also quite simple. To get started with Obsidian you need to download the software from their official website. After installation you can start, Obsidian uses the markdown file format. It's similar to a text file, but it has features such as tags where you can organize the texts. I don't know about you, but I think it's really useful to use Markdown because it's... - Source: dev.to / 20 days ago

• How to improve your GitHub vanity metrics FAST

  In practice I write in Obsidian, the best thing since slice bread for me. And it was obsidian-git, running every 10 minutes or so, who was keeping my GitHub vanity metrics very green. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• DevDocs

  Not a complete answer, but I hope Markdown is or becomes the standard for offline docs and text for local/offline consumption. I only ever write in markdown anyway (usually with http://obsidian.md). The closest thing I know of for a service like RSS to download documents is [Dash for macOS - API Documentation Browser, Snippet Manager - Kapeli](https://kapeli.com/dash). - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Ask HN: Is there a service for uploading Markdown files that render beautifully?

  Have you tried Obsidian? The have a markdown file publishing service. [1]: https://obsidian.md. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

Fantasia Archive mentions (10)

• Need Advice for Passing a Campaign on to a Player to DM. Warning: Kind of a Bummer

  And fantasia Archive ( https://fantasiaarchive.com/ ) to structure the rest and organize the worldbiilding and the adventures. If you want to integrate images to fatasia archive, you must use online hosting (imgur the best). And go on the discord, there is a command pinned (it just an html image reference) to link your images. The underlining code of Fantasia archive is in markdown but there is a WYSIWYG editor.... Source: 10 months ago

• Worldbuilding + ADHD and similar disabilities/limitations...

  If you don't like this method, there are other technological alternatives. Some are online (and have small prices) like World Anvil, Campfire, Inkarnate (not a writing tool, but it's a crazy good mapmaking tool). If you don't want something online with a pricetag, try Fantasia Archive, which is free and not online. It's not as good as the online tools, but it's still great. I've been trying it for some weeks now... Source: about 1 year ago

• [OC] If you're about to start a new campaign, I strongly recommend making a calendar

  I had been using Fantasia Archive, but updates have unfortunately been very slow over the last couple years, and I was already thinking about jumping ship. This might be a good chance to do so. 🤔. Source: over 1 year ago

• what do you use to worldbuild?

  I've found Fantasia Archive to be a great way to keep things neat. Source: over 1 year ago

• Is there a software like world anvil and kanka but free?

  Both Fantasia Archive and World Maker are downloadable, free, open source projects (I haven't actually used either, but they look decent). Obsidian is also a decent free option for a desktop/personal wiki, though not worldbuilding specific. There's a guide to using it as a GM tool, which is similar to worldbuilding. Source: over 1 year ago