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EM Labs<p>Just stumbling across this old paper from 1998</p><p>Can tell its old as uses LINK Si(Li) EDS</p><p>Checking that SEM EDS can be used on archeology obsidian artifacts to identify origin, it compares rough and polished, and concludes yes <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/archeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archeology</span></a> <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a> </p><p>Reminds me of study done on ash from airplane engines</p><p>Chemical Characterization of Obsidians from Different Mediterranean Sources by Non-destructive SEM-EDS Analytical Method<br>Pasquale Acquafredda<br>1999, Journal of Archaeological Science</p><p><a href="https://www.academia.edu/54118294/Chemical_Characterization_of_Obsidians_from_Different_Mediterranean_Sources_by_Non_destructive_SEM_EDS_Analytical_Method" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">academia.edu/54118294/Chemical</span><span class="invisible">_Characterization_of_Obsidians_from_Different_Mediterranean_Sources_by_Non_destructive_SEM_EDS_Analytical_Method</span></a></p>
Joe Heyburn<p>New blog post time! Reorganising my <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> journal notes with a little help from my mate Claude!</p><p><a href="https://jdheyburn.co.uk/blog/reorganising-obsidian-journal-notes/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jdheyburn.co.uk/blog/reorganis</span><span class="invisible">ing-obsidian-journal-notes/</span></a></p>
A Hard Man to Like™ 🇦🇺<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>obsidian</span></a></p>
vladcampos.com<p>One third of the book and I&#39;m already understanding most of the slang without having to use the dictionary (<a href="https://youtu.be/3oJ5l2ABZSo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/3oJ5l2ABZSo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) I saved in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Obsidian</span></a>.</p>
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@pauby" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pauby</span></a></span> Yes, most <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> users don't think of the effects of proprietary syntax extensions and lost tool features to work with their files when the tool isn't available anymore.</p><p>I'm writing a longer blog article about those more or less subtle lock-in effects of proprietary tools like Obsidian which are using alleged(?) open file formats for storage.</p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/Markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Markdown</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/lockin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lockin</span></a></p>
Karl Voit :emacs: :orgmode:<p>If you're using <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/OneNote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OneNote</span></a>, you will face disadvantages when you don't switch to <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Windows11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Windows11</span></a> soon:</p><p>You are forced to "One Note on Windows" which requires a <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Microsoft365" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Microsoft365</span></a> account. If you want to keep your previous computer/OS, your synchronization speed gets reduced just to punish your disobedience: <a href="https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/03/24/microsoft-will-intentionally-slow-onenote-for-windows-10-so-you-ditch-it-faster/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">windowslatest.com/2025/03/24/m</span><span class="invisible">icrosoft-will-intentionally-slow-onenote-for-windows-10-so-you-ditch-it-faster/</span></a></p><p>For anything that requires a certain amount of privacy/security, for anything long-term (avoiding <a href="https://graz.social/tags/lockin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lockin</span></a> effects), OneNote was a bad idea in the first place.</p><p>People who started with the original OneNote already faced data loss when MS forced them into the then mediocre cloud version in 2018: <a href="https://karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of-OneNote/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">karl-voit.at/2018/04/21/end-of</span><span class="invisible">-OneNote/</span></a></p><p>My recommendation: re-evaluate your requirements and switch to a much better long-term alternative, such as <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Emacs</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Orgmode</span></a> &amp; not yet another hip lock-in monster like <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a>, <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Evernote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evernote</span></a> or other closed source <a href="https://graz.social/tags/cloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cloud</span></a> solutions: <a href="https://karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-choices/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">karl-voit.at/2021/01/18/tool-c</span><span class="invisible">hoices/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_note-taking_software" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparis</span><span class="invisible">on_of_note-taking_software</span></a></p><p><a href="https://graz.social/tags/PIM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PIM</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/notetaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>notetaking</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/vendorlockin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vendorlockin</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/opensource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>opensource</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Notion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Notion</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/Roam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Roam</span></a> <a href="https://graz.social/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>
Thor Galle<p>Oh, <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Notion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Notion</span></a> added webhooks. Finally! I'll likely use this in work projects at some point.</p><p>But for other projects... I've had a mindset shift since my 2020 Notion infatuation. I prefer to explore what's possible with <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a>, <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/anytype" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anytype</span></a>, <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Supabase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Supabase</span></a>, <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/Pocketbase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pocketbase</span></a>, <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/NocoDB" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NocoDB</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/AppFlowy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AppFlowy</span></a>; where long-term control &amp; ownership is more clear.</p>
Niklas Pivic<p><a href="https://github.com/cactuzhead/Advanced-Progress-Bars" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/cactuzhead/Advanced</span><span class="invisible">-Progress-Bars</span></a></p><p>This is an Obsidian plugin to create and show progress bars by adding three lines of text.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ProgressBar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProgressBar</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/plugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plugin</span></a></p>
snewpy<p>Started using <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> and I figured out how to do sync for free.</p><p><a href="https://snewpy.com/2025/03/obsidian-notes-app/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">snewpy.com/2025/03/obsidian-no</span><span class="invisible">tes-app/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sync" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sync</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/free" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>free</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/synology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>synology</span></a></p>
Ellane ·𐑧𐑤𐑱𐑯<p>When people say "Still think Obsidian is cool? These apps will change your mind" I think — please don't waste my time unless the alternative apps store data locally in human-readable plain text files, sans databases. Or at least have the ability to export to that format.</p><p><a href="https://pkm.social/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/plainText" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>plainText</span></a></p>
Taffer 🇨🇦 :godot:<p>If you're in KDE and can't tell where the edges of your <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@obsidian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>obsidian</span></a></span> windows are (for example if you use Solarized theme in Obsidian and the terminal window behind it), turn on "Native frame" for the "Window frame style" option under Advanced in the Appearance settings.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/kde6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kde6</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a></p>
Nuno Campos<p>🚀 New Obsidian Plugin Showcase!<br>This week we’re featuring 12 amazing plugins, including:<br>✅ AutoFit Tabs<br>📅 Organized Daily Notes<br>⚡ Runsh<br>📊 SQLSeal Charts<br>🔗 Automatic Linker<br>...and more!<br>Upgrade your workflow now! 🔥<br>Read more 👉 <a href="https://obsidianjourney.com/posts/obsidian-plugins-showcase---mar-25th-2025/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">obsidianjourney.com/posts/obsi</span><span class="invisible">dian-plugins-showcase---mar-25th-2025/</span></a><br><a href="https://pkm.social/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/secondbrain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>secondbrain</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/type" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>type</span></a>/note <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/note" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>note</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/NoteTaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoteTaking</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@obsidian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>obsidian</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/obsidianmd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>obsidianmd@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lemmy.world/c/obsidianmd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>obsidianmd@lemmy.world</span></a></span></p>
BlitzErich<p>Ich bereite ja gerade mit <a href="https://mastodon.pnpde.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> mein <a href="https://mastodon.pnpde.social/tags/Hexxen1733" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Hexxen1733</span></a>-Abenteuer vor. Dank Canvas und Vorlagen und mit Hilfe des offiziellen Regelwikis macht das echt so unfassbar viel Laune und geht echt schnell. Eigentlich ist mein langsames Kreativhirn die größte Bremse.<br><a href="https://mastodon.pnpde.social/tags/pnpde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pnpde</span></a></p>
Stephen Millard<p>Do you use <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> on your Mac? Do you want to set notes as read only? Yes, well check out my most recent post on locking notes in Obsidian.</p><p><a href="https://www.thoughtasylum.com/2025/03/23/locking-notes-in-obsidian/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thoughtasylum.com/2025/03/23/l</span><span class="invisible">ocking-notes-in-obsidian/</span></a></p>
Lou Plummer 💖<p>I just did an analysis of my Obsidian Vault. I have 10, 153 total files. 6,544 are markdown files and 3,609 are attachments, mostly images downloaded as part of clipped web pages. What about you? <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>
fanf42<p>Personal note taking and structuration app</p><p>I'm looking for personal notes taking app that would allow to organically add structure - especially by creating inter note links and to-dos/reminders.</p><p>I never used org-mode put from what I understand of it, it could be that.</p><p>It needs to be floss or at the very least based on an interoperable standard (I don't know about such a thing, I would love to learn).<br>I would need to used it on smartphone and linux laptop. If the sync relies on a private service, it needs to be eee. <br>It needs to be able to store rich text (the markdown set we seems to converge to is OK) and images, ideally integrates with mermaid.js</p><p>I know of :</p><ul><li><a href="https://github.com/logseq" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/logseq</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></li><li><a href="https://joplinapp.org/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">joplinapp.org/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (but looks more like notion, it misses</li><li><a href="https://obsidian.md/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">obsidian.md/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (not floss)</li><li><a href="https://github.com/TriliumNext/Notes" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">github.com/TriliumNext/Notes</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> (perhaps?)</li></ul><p>Do you use any ? Do you know others?</p><p>Boost appreciated!</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/orgmode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>orgmode</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/logseq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>logseq</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/joplin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>joplin</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/trilium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>trilium</span></a></p>
Alix Gabaude<p>I switched away from Notion a few weeks after starting to use it after realising that not only the content was only stored online, but you literally couldn't get into your notes without an internet connection and the ability to log in without bugs from their servers. But if anyone is still using it, especially PhD students, you might want to rethink that as it literally randomly deletes your data without warning you!<br><a href="https://youtu.be/5XiUcwqOx44" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/5XiUcwqOx44</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://sciences.social/tags/notion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>notion</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/phdlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phdlife</span></a> <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a></p>
Jen Kuntz 🇨🇦<p>Do any other <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> users find their VPN blocks Obsidin from sync’ing? My situation: I’m using Nord VPN. I rearranged several files/folders today on one device, none of the changes visible on my 2nd device. I disabled VPN on device 1 and changes sync’d immediately to device 2.</p>
Maik Meid<p>Als <a href="https://fundraising.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> Heavyuser merke ich vor dem Bettgang an, dass ich [eckige Klammern] sehr gut finde. <a href="https://fundraising.social/tags/NichtMeinKanzler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NichtMeinKanzler</span></a> <a href="https://fundraising.social/tags/GuteNacht" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GuteNacht</span></a></p>
vladcampos.com<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Evernote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Evernote</span></a> &#39;s new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PDF</span></a> viewer is here! Is it enough for serious PDF reading? I&#39;m still on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Obsidian</span></a>, but there&#39;s hope! Find out why.<br />👇 <br /><a href="https://youtu.be/agxVG2UrLLo" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/agxVG2UrLLo</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>