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Looking for Cloud Alternatives to Obsidian Note-Taking Tool

Avatar of Mirna L.Mirna L.
·Mar 08, 2022 10:52 PM

Hi All! A bit of a random question; not sure if someone knows about Obsidian, a tool for note-taking that has functionality for Knowledge graph. It can only be used locally and I was wondering if anybody knows about a similar tool for the cloud? https://obsidian.md/

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    Aaron B.
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    Here's one Carlos F. Enguix just tweeted about - Carlos, is this cloud-based? https://atomgraph.github.io/LinkedDataHub/

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  • Avatar of Aaron B.
    Aaron B.
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    And Roam isn't local, right Ivo? https://roamresearch.com/

  • Avatar of Mirna L.
    Mirna L.
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    Thank you Aaron B.! I’ll take a look

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  • Avatar of Martynas J.
    Martynas J.
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    Aaron B. LinkedDataHub is not cloud-based, but it can be 🙂 We have a setup for AWS

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  • Avatar of Ivo
    Ivo
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    Indeed, Aaron B., Roam isn't local. Mirna L., Roam is a block-centric outliner and as such the main similarities with Obsidian are the internal links and the backlinks, the rest is quite different. Basically, Obsidian is similar to Foam and Dendron, while Athens and Logseq are very similar to (and strongly influenced by) Roam. Athens is collaborative. Logseq is local and MD so it is interoperable with Obsidian with the exception of block references and queries. Roam is paid and not cheap. If you are looking for free cloud-based tools like that, try https://scrapbox.io/. It predates Roam and is much simpler but quite good for individual or team use. And there are plenty of other options, including https://zenkit.com/en/hypernotes/, and soon to be released https://unigraph.dev. Many Obsidian users highly recommend https://www.craft.do . In all of them, the graph is very simple, either linking only pages or linking also blocks but you can't specify the type of relationship. If you a looking for that kind of graph tool, there are not many. I know only https://kanopi.io and https://atomgraph.github.io/LinkedDataHub/ which was already suggested. The former doesn't have standard querying (SPARQL) but has features for unstructured content, the latter is full-blown RDF platform but to my knowledge, it only supports structured data.

  • Avatar of Mirna L.
    Mirna L.
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    Thank you for all the details Ivo , I appreciate all the insights. I’m going to try your suggestions.

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  • Avatar of Ivo
    Ivo
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    Here's a recent article that might be of help and for what it's worth, here I described how I currently use Roam. Check out also the 🔒[private feed] here. It would be great if you share your findings.

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  • Avatar of Mirna L.
    Mirna L.
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    You’ve been very helpful, thanks again, Ivo .

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