If there is one thing we’ve learned from legacy note applications like Evernote it’s that lockin is terrible. You’re actually procrastinating and would have been better off choosing a tool that didn’t have any plugins so you could focus on getting your research done and your notes were taken. It’s really easy to spend lots of time looking at plugins and fooling yourself into thinking that you’re making progress. Yes, the Advanced Tables plugin is cool, but I rarely have tables in my notes so wheneve I use it I must look up the documentation again to figure out what I want to do. Many of the Obsidian plugins I have installed remain unused on a regular basis. While I think extensibility is important, it’s also likely not as important as you think. This means that their API is younger and while we’re seeing decent extensions that leave me excited for the future of Craft, there is still a long road to walk to get some of the powerful extensions we see in Obsidian. Later on, when extensions were added to Obsidian, there was already a strong API to work with that developers have built amazing things with.Ĭraft focused on the core application and only recently introduced extensions, which are only available on the desktop currently. This meant that they needed to have a robust API to use so that the basic application could be developed. This is also where Obsidian has a strong lead over Craft.Įarly in the development of Obsidian, they decided to build many core features as plugins for the application. No application can fulfill all the needs of everyone with its core functions, this is where an API and extensibility comes into play. While not all plugins work with Live Preview, I continue to find more and more that work as expected.įor most regular users I think that Craft has a lead in the design department while any time a user sees Markdown it will make Obsidian feel more complex than it is. Obsidian is also making strong strides with its visual look with its recently introduced Live Preview. I don’t struggle with Markdown or the times that you see queries in your document to compile data. It does a better job at embedding media than Obsidian does currently.Ĭoming from a coding background, Obsidian feels like a beautiful application to me. Second, what type of applications appeals to you most? Craft certainly leads Obsidian in visual appeal for many users. It won’t be like apps native to the platform you’re working on, but it will always be Obsidian. If you operate across platforms, then Obsidian is its own thing and it works the same across all the areas you’re working. If you have one outlier place where you don’t use an Apple device, then the web application is so good you may not even notice that you’re using a web app to access your notes. If you’re all on Apple devices then Craft is likely to feel more at home to you because it uses native conventions for its applications. On that front Craft is ahead because it has feature parity between desktop and mobile device usage 1. On this item alone we could give Obsidian a leg up on Craft, but then not all Obsidian extensions work on their mobile platforms. The first point to address is what platforms do you use to take notes and do you prefer native applications over web applications? From this angle, Craft is Apple only but has an excellent web app while Obsidian is on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android with the same features across platforms. Today I’ll tell you what I like about both of them and why I think they’re both suited to different types of note-takers. Second, I use Craft for taking notes on home projects or bike parts, or other things that feel more visually oriented to me. First, I use Obsidian for my own notes on books and research. I use two main tools for my note-taking systems.
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