I’ve been using Neovim a lot nowadays. One thing I miss about Emacs is graph view in org-roam-ui. It had way more functionality than I needed. I simply wanted to display a chunk of the graph inside Emacs. org-roam-ui would generate the graph for the browser. There is a Neovim version of it as well, but it too uses the browser.
Soooo…I’m trying Obsidian at the moment. Actually, this would be my second time. A few years ago, I was on the hunt for the elusive perfect note-taking app. My finalists were Emacs org-mode and Obsidian.
The main problem with Obsidian was…it was too much. Of course I could have hidden lots of stuff, but out of the box, it was like, “damn, another tool to learn.” While with Emacs, all I had was a nice blank page. I went with Emacs.
But I could never get over the fact that I had to jump to the browser to see the graph of how all my notes was connected when using org-roam-ui. The switching back and forth made me nuts.
Now I’m giving Obsidian another try. I’m trying to slim down the UI as much as possible. I like how the graph is always in the sidebar.
We’ll see how it goes.