If I want to transcribe every new audio file that appears in a folder on my Mac using (Mac)Whisper and then run the transcription through a LLM using Ollama to clean it up, what are my best options? Do I have to write some Python code myself or is the readymade tools for this?
An Obsidian user on Medium recently lost an entire vault to data corruption because of an encryption plugin.
I’m very sorry this happened to them, and that they didn’t have a backup.
Truly, if our notes in Obsidian can’t function without features that exist only in that app, we’ve shackled ourselves to the wall of a prison without a door.
Always have an exit plan! Always backup your work! And never lock all your data with a key you don’t own.
@ellane@obsidianmd That’s why I posted this feature request on the #Obsidian Forum and explained why encryption needs to be a core feature, because relying on a plugin to handle it is inherently dangerous.
Sadly, it’s only gotten 3 likes in five months, so I don’t have high hopes of it getting implemented.
It's been a minute, #Mastodon Alright, I wrote a lil post for the #Obsidian forum on my crusade against #Dataview (not literally; it's a great #plugin ) Here's the link if any are interested:
After listening to @amolith on the @linuxlads I am giving #Logseq a decent go again: I'll try it for 2 weeks and see where I end up. I wrote in my Bullet Journal once this month, so I can't be worse than that. I am using my #Obsidian folder already set up with #Syncthing between devices, and it seems fine with that.
Obsidian lasted... not long, but I think I was trying to be too rigid with it. So I'll try not to be so much this time.
Frage an alle @obsidian Nutzer: was sind eure Lieblings-Extensions und wofür nutzt ihr sie? Bin da grad erst am Entdecken und schwer angetan. 🤩 #obsidian
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J'avais dit, en 2020, que j'allais faire un article de blog entièrement consacré à mon utilisation d'Obsidian. On est en 2024 et il serait temps que je m'y mette : voici donc mon rapport à Obsidian. (Le titre de cet article est un mensonge, j'ai pas de date exacte sous la main mais il me semble avoir commencé Obsidian dans la deux
Love Obsidian, but for the past 2-3 weeks it would freeze and get slow.
TIL
Themes and plugins must be upgraded separately from core
iCloud appears to not automatically download all files, or quietly reverts some files to cloud only, making indexing and search in obsidian super slow
3.Pages with large markdown table with broken formatting can cause Obsidian to become unresponsive for over a minute each time you try to open that page. Suspect this is a bug?
I didn't used to be a "militant" #FOSS user, but I've been bitten too many times by companies with #proprietarysoftware. For example, #Reason DAW, #Zbrush - both companies that decided to say fuck you to perpetual licenses. Now, I try to avoid any proprietary application. I recently went looking for a good notes app and everyone loves #Obsidian. As soon as I saw it was closed source, I noped out and settled on #Joplin. These companies will eventually fuck over customers so I won't waste my time.
Divers recover chiseled obsidian from Neolithic shipwreck off Italian coast
Divers from the Naples Police underwater unit, based in Naples, Italy, have retrieved a substantial piece of obsidian from the remnants of a Neolithic shipwreck, off the coast of the island of Capri...
I hated the idea of #Dataview at first. I thought it was going to add complexity to my #Obsidian vault. This impression was worsened by the many Youtubers who were showing me their souped up Obsidian systems. Now I'm glad I took the trouble to learn - Dataview can resurface Notes that I've completely forgotten about and automatically list Notes I've made.
I like Dataview now, but I doubt I'll use it beyond ordering my vault from utter chaos to manageable mess. 😆
A Pattern Language is one of my favorite books, and this abridged hypertext version by zenodotus280 is incredibly fun to explore with #obsidian
The book explores humanism in design patterns at every scale from the layout of cities down to how you should choose chairs
zendotus280 did the hard work of linking patterns to each other which makes it possible to easily traverse the text across many more dimensions than you can flipping pages
Je viens de faire une présentation au travail sur « l’accessibilité pour les nuls » en écrivant tout en Markdown dans #Obsidian, en présentant ça sous forme de slide grâce à Obsidian Slides et en archivant le tout dans notre wiki juste en faisant un copier/coller du Markdown dans une nouvelle page wiki.
My new favorite plugin is Modal Form: a form designer for #Obsidian. It makes it much easier to collect metadata to use in documents. It is especiallly powerful when combined with Templater or QuickAdd plugins.
If you want to archive your Mastodon or other app/site feed posts into Obsidian as separate post entries, I wrote a post about how to use the Simple RSS plugin to do that. I cover Mastodon and Grav RSS feeds. I've done the best I can do for now with instructions and a big thank you goes out to simple rss dev Monnier Antoine for being super helpful.
I've been using Spaced Repetition flashcards for years. Over 2 years ago, I transitioned my SRS system to Obsidian with the plugin featured in this video. It's effective, and I enjoy making flashcards within my research notes. #TfT#Obsidian 📚✨
So happy I took the time to learn #Dataview. It's going to be revolutionary for my vault. It'll help me create main topic pages to keep track of my notes. I used to manually link every note to a "MOC" but I kept forgetting and found it tedious. This is going to be a "leave it and let grow" thing, and it suits my #ADHD brain immensely lol.
And how great it is that the #Obsidian anticipated our annoyance with YAML and come up with the properties feature? Genius.
@liztai Your dataviews wil evolve and that might be a challenge when you have dataviews in your templates that you then want to update as well.
My solution to that is to put a #DataviewJS snippet in the template that loads the another note (call it a #Dataview#template where the actual Dataview lives.