Ok, the templater + button plugin for @obsdmd is neat, and works well on mobile.

I had a quick idea of how could I add a time stamped quick entry on an active note while out walking, and then quickly made a proof of concept before said walk.

Going to go on that walk now - very basic.

But how quick it was to do, it's barely scratching the surface - it's giving me ideas.

Switched to Obsidian a few months ago and I liked it then - but some of the recent improvements, plugins and mobile has made me have an ah-hah

I think especially for developers - if your looking for a personal note app, it's worth checking out Obsidian, might do a longer write up later.

Even not making use of the more advanced features, it's a great app for keeping notes as you work.

The files are markdown, and stored locally - and local apps, so if performance and ownership of information matters, nice win there.

They have a sync service - I haven't used that myself, but I do backup to git.

For the mobile app - I have it using iCloud and it's been smooth so far.

Can jump between desktop, iPhone and iPad pretty seamlessly.

Even if one day the app stops working - you still have all your stuff in markdown.

Can use frontmatter / YAML at the top of the files.

Few fields are Obsidian specific - tags and aliases, but you can add whatever else you want.

With plugins like DataView that let you query your notes - and use information from the meta data, it's very handy

You can also query on the incoming links / out links / etc.

The DataView plugin is adding a javascript API to use instead of the query syntax, haven't tried that out yet but that opens up alot of cool possibilities.

People who customize the hell out of vim or emacs and say why not just use that - shush!