I've been using Notion as a sort of catch-all notes program for the last 5 years, but it's been getting progressively more bloated and annoying. So I'm finally starting the tedious work of moving all my notes to a different program. I tried Obsidian and Joplin as alternatives.

I liked Joplin because it's a very straightforward barebones note-taking program, and I didn't think I really needed all the cool Obsidian features. I was getting ready to put everything there until I looked at the files it saved and saw they were a mess. To Joplin's credit, it lets you easily export your notes in different formats (Markdown, HTML, even PDF), but I'd prefer that the notes were saved in an accessible format to begin with.

I crawled back to Obsidian because your note files are regular Markdown with the same folder hierarchy you see in the program. This required me to copy and paste all my recipes twice, which was a minor inconvenience.

Now that I have the cool Obsidian features, I will say the (data)base feature is nice to have to organize stuff in a cute little table. I love cute little tables. I also turned my list of places I want to go to into a map! Because I always think I can do multiple things in Denver in a day until I realize they're a 40 minute drive from each other.

I'm also impressed by how good the mobile functionality is. It looks and works great without compromising on any of the desktop features, or at least the ones I use.

Since Obsidian is just a fancy Markdown editor with cute little tables, I'm having some thoughts about using it for site generation where PHP isn't required. Unfortunately I like my shitty little blog comments, so I wouldn't be able to replace the blog with it, but for stuff like art galleries or OC pages.... maybe? These are very ambitious thoughts to be having in November...