If you're used to markdown in Obsidian, you could look at vimwiki to use a similar syntax in vim. I find it works fairly nicely for standard notetaking, and is a lot faster to start than Obsidian.

[–] simon@slrpnk.net 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Wiki.vim https://github.com/lervag/wiki.vim

It let's you create a wiki with links between pages.

Unlike obsidian, it doesn't put your personal data in the cloud.

Unlike the similarly named vimwiki it doesn't use a custom file format. It uses markdown. Although I think you can configure vimwiki to use markdown as well, but with reduced functionality of the plugin.

[–] daskye@lemm.ee 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

obsidian doesn't put my files in the cloud... lol

I use syncthing for sync, obsidian sync is optional

[–] simon@slrpnk.net 2 points 11 hours ago

Ooh, I don't know why I assumed that XD

Makes Obsidian way more interesting.

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I have been preparing for this question.

https://nvim-orgmode.github.io/ is very good and very customisable while keeping consistent and open file file format that allows your notes to be easily stored and read by other apps.

For longer form notes https://github.com/chipsenkbeil/org-roam.nvim/blob/main/DOCS.org can also help while maintaining all the benefits mentioned above.

There is also https://github.com/nvim-neorg/neorg that is trying to create new file format and ecosystem around it. Seems cool, but a bit new imo.

[–] daskye@lemm.ee 1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I wonder if I can just straight up import my obsidian vault and have it work

[–] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Not very easy but not very hard either. Obsidian works with .md files they have close syntaxes to .org files that orgmode works with, but you will have to convert them.

I would also suggest searching for some neovim plugins working with .md files. That will allow you to directly import your files. Something like this maybe?

[–] hallettj@leminal.space 2 points 18 hours ago

I use obsidian.nvim. It's a Neovim interface to my Obsidian vaults, so I can work on my knowledge base in whichever app works best in the moment.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

I edit files with vimwiki. I view them in obsidian.

Or at least I used to, I wrote a few little functions to do zettels now, but the linking and traversal features of vimwiki are still really useful.