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iCloud is not the only alternative to Obsidian Sync on iOS. There are also several Obsidian plugins that allow you to sync to a variety of services.

The $4 plan was launched March 20, 2024

https://obsidian.md/blog/standard-plan/

Another LaTeX to MathML option that I have had a good experience with is temml — it works in the browser or server side with Node.js. https://temml.org/

Markdown files edited in Obsidian and compiled with Jekyll.

https://stephango.com/vault#publishing-to-the-web

This is why:

https://help.obsidian.md/android#Storage+permissions

There are no "tiers" with Obsidian. The app is free without limits. You don't even need to sign up. You own your data locally. You can pay for the add-ons like Sync and Publish if you want, but there's also third-party alternatives to those.

> Do you anticipate those companies to keep purchasing Obsidian now that it isn't a mandatory purchase for compliance?

I don't know. We'll see. It's somewhat unknowable, in the same way we don't know how many users didn't buy a license but should have. My guess is that for every person who bought a commercial license there are 9 who were out of compliance. We anecdotally know that many tech companies have way more Obsidian users than they report. This change will remove a lot of admin work for our team of seven.

What I do know is that even without any Commercial revenue, our other revenue streams (Sync, Publish and Catalyst) are enough to keep the lights on, and we really mean what we say in our Manifesto: "We believe that everyone should have the tools to think clearly and organize ideas effectively."

The bet is that this increases the number of people who discover Obsidian and end up buying one of our add-ons. In the future I can also see us creating add-ons that are more focused on organizational use. This change makes the pricing much clearer in that regard. I expect much fewer questions like "does Commercial include Sync?" which has been a point of confusion for years.

Obsidian makes money from its add-on services Sync and Publish. Commercial license is joining the Catalyst license as an optional ways to support Obsidian.

The problem with the Commercial license is that it wasn't clear. Many organizations were out of compliance without any way for Obsidian to enforce it, since the app is local and doesn't require sign up.

What browser are you using? Can you describe the issue? Typically scroll jacking is when you hook on scroll to forcefully scroll the page to something, but that's not happening here.

page down should work now, maybe you need to hard refresh?

this is fixed now!

It has become so easy to live life abstracted from all the manufacturing, farming, and logistics that makes it possible. As technology increases leverage, and allows things to become more complex, it feels like we're constantly getting farther away from understanding how the world works.

Photography like this is necessary to remind us of everything we take for granted. I talked to Chris Payne once. He's a genius. To me he is today's Margaret Bourke-White. It takes more than a good eye to get those photographs. There are so many talents coming together.

Sure. This aligns with my original point. A farmer owns their land (mostly). The farm is the farmer's canonical source for their product.

Farmers don't typically rely on a single farmer's market to sell their product, they participate in many markets, sell wholesale, sell from their farm, and might also have a direct-to-consumer option where they can ship beyond their locality.

Create once, publish everywhere — your land is the canonical source. Markets are for distribution.

It is certainly helpful to hang up a shingle where all the people are — the mall, the town square, the marketplace — but your patrons should know that a bridge exists to your flagship, your headquarters, your farm, your factory of ideas.

Your analogy doesn't match my statement. I am saying there should be a canonical location for what you create that is on a URL that you own. Everything else is distribution.

You built a house on someone else's land, and then they tore it down. Build a house on your own land, as small as that land may be. From there you can create roads, bridges, tunnels to other people's land. On the web land is infinite. You can make your own land.

The URL is what should persist, not the host.

You have to think of YouTube and other platforms as a mechanism for distribution, not a source of truth.

If you're a creator it's essential to have your own place on the web were you can host and publish anything without fear that it will be taken down for any reason — even accidentally.

As it becomes cheap to automate both creating takedown requests and processing requests, the volume of spam requests is going to skyrocket and it seems likely there will be more false positives.

I built Obsidian Web Clipper to automate that process. It also allows you to save web pages as nicely formatted Markdown files with YAML properties even if you don't use Obsidian.

https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-clipper

Never thought I'd see the day. Yet... not surprising because plain text is the ideal format for analysis, LLM training, etc.

The question businesses will start to ask is why are we putting our data into .docx files in the first place?

OMG! I have been hoping Jordan would work on this. It's the first time I have been able to re-experience a skin made in 2004 called Impulse. I can't even remember when I last used it.

Loading it from the URL on the page linked below, it mostly works! Impressed that most of the animations came across.

stephango.com/impulse

There's only one method of doing to-dos that has worked for me. This method can be used with paper, Obsidian, Apple Notes, or any other app.

Every week I create a weekly note, and write my to-dos for the week. I may add more items to it during the week. If any items didn’t get done I roll them over to the next weekly note or drop them. That’s it.

I usually write my to-dos from scratch without looking at the previous week’s list. This helps me decide which items I should drop. If I can’t remember a to-do it probably wasn’t that important.

I have never figured out the causal direction of Yves Béhar's fiascos and flops (OLPC, Theranos, Juicero, Ouya, among many). Was it the hubris of the founders who wanted their products designed by Béhar, or was it the design of the products themselves?

Thanks, I'll think about it :)

I like the way it sounds, and so far these are the only ones I have learned :)

The way the sheet is printed out makes it easy to add/remove scales once I feel more comfortable with them.

Fixed that missing natural minor note! Oops.

The reason for the notes being black is because I have a B&W laser printer and it was the best way for me to create something distinct and visible next to the piano keys.

Author here! Oops. You're right there was missing note on the natural minor. That's fixed now.

Keep in mind I am a complete novice and made this for myself. The purpose is not necessarily to teach someone the circle of fifths but rather help me develop a better visual and tactile relationship with the position of those notes on the keyboard.

What are the plugins or toggles you think should be included in the app?

It's already a feature of Obsidian — turn on stacked tabs

https://help.obsidian.md/User+interface/Tabs#Stack+tab+group...

There are YouTube influencers for every niche interest. The pattern you describe can be found in people talking about diets, exercise, fashion, home remodeling, etc. Creating novel terms is one way for influencers to differentiate and increase their views and search rankings... but I agree that it makes things far more complex and inscrutable than they need to be.

The best way to start journaling is to write a little bit every day with whatever tool has the lowest friction for you.

I find top-down organizational systems like Johnny Decimal difficult to maintain over time. There is an overhead in having to think about which folder something belongs in. And a similar cost to recall.

My own Obsidian vault is bottom-up. I assume I'm going to be in a hurry, or too lazy to organize. Instead I try to write wiki style with lots of [[Links]] to reference people/places/things, and the structure emerges from those links. This is the only approach that has stuck for me.

See https://stephango.com/vault