bryanhogan

I don't think they have added a Obsidian Bases / Notion Database like feature yet, right? Saw some discussion of adding a NocoDB integration, but also didn't see that happen yet.

Trying to watermark or otherwise label them as AI generated is a lost fight, we should assume every image and video we see online may be AI generated.

Pure black background with pure white elements is a common accessibility issue.

And just curious, why would using "only" 16 colors be silly?

I'm not sure DocMost is a Notion alternative, it's just a note-taking tool without many of the features that give Notion its unique position.

I'm always disappointed by note-taking tools calling themselves a Notion alternative when they do not provide an alternative to Notion and are instead just another note-taking tool with a simple UI.

If you want to be a Notion alternative provide the things that make Notion great, e.g. the database functionality. It's okay to be a simple colaborative notes tool, but that is not a Notion alternative.

I'd say Affine or Obsidian.

Obsidian is built on-top of just markdown files, so you can do whatever you want with them. E.g. if you need multiplayer editing you could use 3rd party solutions or even something like HedgeDoc.

Affine is more closer to Notion and self-hostable.

Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/

Affine: https://affine.pro/

I wrote a more detailed comparison of Notion vs Obsidian here: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/notion-obsidian-comparison

I kinda dislike where Notion is heading though, forcing more and more things on their users without any ways to disable them. But yes, it's capable to do what you are looking for.

Maybe Affine could also work though, you can self-host it and it's more customizable: https://affine.pro/

I wrote my own piece about South Korea / Seoul: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/south-korea-travel-guide

Felt like it's worth sharing here!

Seoul is such a huge place with tons of different areas that each could be a city by itself.

Edit:

I just checked the (sadly paywalled) beginning of the article and the author also says:

> [...] alley of small apartments and trucks selling garlic, the next you’re in a modern business park so sterile it feels like a doctor’s office.

So do I understand correctly that this is a competitor to something like n8n, but instead entirely vibe-coded?

n8n: https://n8n.io/

Yeah, I think people are forgetting that if we want PWAs to behave and function like "native apps" that this functionality is needed.

I revently built an app with SvelteKit + Capacitor and had to implement the stack-based navigation one expects from a phone app myself.

This is an amazing announcement! I've been looking for a good replacement since the Affinity betrayal.

I've been using DaVinci Resolve as my desktop video editor for years, and it's great, can highly recommend it as well.

Just curious, since I think they have the same focus, have you also tested SilverBullet?

https://silverbullet.md/

I like Obsidian on mobile, so I'm not really using it, but I found the "Zettel Notes"[1] app to be a good markdown editor for Android also.

[1]: https://www.zettelnotes.com/

The main problem I have with using different Vaults at the same time is that they all share the same taskbar icon. For syncing you can sync your files however you want.

I mostly use one Vault for my setup, then things like linking and search work the best: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/obsidian-vault

I wouldn't call it unsuable though? I have one separate vault for just journaling and that works well.

I mean, that kinda was the point of my post, you really don't have to use all of the features!

No person does actually.

What setup are you using to push and pull on Android?

Almost all ways to sync Obsidian has a problem with multiple people editing the same file.

Although there are some tools for better collaboration, but if it's just for one particular file it might be a bit "overkill".

But to give them a mention: Relay and Screen Garden are two community plugins that do it, HedgeDoc is a different app but it is a collaborative markdown editor, then the core team of Obsidian is also working on the multiplayer update.

I also much rather use [[links]] for organization instead of #tags.

I touched a bit on this in the bottom-up / smart notes section.

Not defending some of the not that amazing Obsidian courses or similar out there, but it sounds like you already have a lot of pre-existing knowledge and an approach that works for you, so as I said in the post, keep using that!

You know about markdown syntax, about #tags, about [[linking]], but a lot of people who first hear of Obsidian don't.

Part of what inspired my post was to help people who don't need the extra complexity of a bottom-up note system, Zettelkasten, ever-green notes, atomic notes or other areas of Obsidian, but also to give direction to someone wants to explore these.

For example I'm very happy with my bottom-up approach for knowledge notes, I have been using it for multiple years now and I can still find the things I need, and it doesn't feel messy or anything.

Thank you for the kind words and that the post actually helped! It's exactly the kind of inspiration I wanted to achieve.

I have been having a similar need for some sheets data in Obsidian, I was gonna look into writing a plugin to represent a JSON file as a Obsidian Base, but didn't get to that yet.

Have you tried some of the plugins that allow you to open CSV / TSV files within Obsidian?

I would also love better Git support, especially syncing content from my Android phone to a GitHub repository, so faar it never worked well, I tried a few solutions here but wasn't satisfied with any of them.

$50 is a high price to ask, no? And I just looked it up, it's actually even more than that.

Consider having an account for each common social media platform, then multiply that for every project, that grows quickly.

I think the same way, I'd love a social media management tool, all of the ones I found were insanely expensive or not usable / had horrible usability issues. Pitching a product by telling me it's built quickly with AI does the opposite of convincing me to try it, even though I'm in the market for the solution offered.

I mean, there's a fundamental missing understanding of how to build a coherent design, then there's also the problem of just poor implementation such as the animations.

The Lua site has some problems as well, like an uncessary border, text size and spacing, even when it's this minimal. You can get much faster and better results from using or taking inspiration from something like Astro Starlight or UnoCSS

Astro Starlight: https://starlight.astro.build/

UnoCSS: https://unocss.dev/

But of course, I agree that with AI you can create websites much faster, but it doesn't replace the knowledge needed to build a "good website".

> Just look at the frontend work people made with Claude Code within only a few hours after the Claude Code source leak: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597085#47598853

I mean, yes look at the vibe coded sites people made after the second Claude Code leak! They are horrible, there are so many issues with them. Look at the existing comments some people with front-end / design knowledge made there.

Just because bad website existed before AI does not mean we should be happy to pump out more bad websites with AI.

Please share what you created! I think people have very different views for what is a good interface, or a tolerable one. I think as a front-end developer and designer I notice a lot of problems most people don't care about.

And I've been updating parts of my website, updated the descriptions, /about and /now, as well as the tags for blog posts.

My website: https://bryanhogan.com/

The repository: https://github.com/BryanHogan/bryanhogan

It's built with Astro. Uses markdown files for the blog. Just CSS, no Tailwind or other UI library. I recently switched to Sveltia as the CMS, and after a bit of custom CSS for fixing some issues it has it works well for writing on my phone!

DailySelfTrack app: https://dailyselftrack.com/

DailySelfTrack is a customizable combination of habit tracker, health journal and diary.

It should be as powerful as a spreadsheet for self-tracking, but the daily usability should be more on par with a habit tracker app.

For example my use-case would be:

- Journaling in a way that fits into what I need. (Gratitude, bullet point jounal)

- Analysing my health and understand how things might relate to each other. (State of multiple health issues)

- Support for moving closer towards achieving my goals. (Daily focus sessions, no-phone mornings, learning Korean)

Wouldn't Astro work great here though?

Just a static sites without JavaScript but you still get some nice things like scoped CSS, components and being able to use markdown for blog posts.