Comment by echelon
16 hours ago
Three asks for Obsidian to make it my #1 tool (and I mean #1 tool):
- First-class multi-vault support. It's difficult to keep personal / business / team separate. I want to keep shared notes for my team, but it's really hard.
- First-class git support. The git plugin is dangerous and will overwrite changes from other devices. The mobile git plugin (which requires hacks to even use) is deadly bad with blowing away your entire git history. Do not use. Obsidian sync is cool and good and all, but I want git. And the existing git isn't just bad, it's deleterious.
- Spreadsheets. Literally just free-form tabular data would work too. Their "bases" thing isn't it. I just need to be able to sort data and keep it versioned. Google Sheets is a huge daily use product - if I had the same function in Obsidian, Gsuite would be dead to me.
> It's difficult to keep personal / business / team separate
I have one vault for personal, one for work. I open each one in a different window. They are both separate and easy to switch between.
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?
What stops you from running git at the root level and doing a "git commit --all "notes" & git push" command?
For me, it's a Wolfram Engine plugin. My notes now scatter between Obsidian vault and Wolfram notebooks. It would be nice if I can unify them.
But I understand that my use case is niche and I certainly don't want the Obsidian officially bloats itself into such feature creating.
Obsidian's plugin architecture is a real strength, ideal for niches like that w/out bloat for the core product.
I second your suggestion to have a decent Spreadsheet tool in 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.
GitSync works fine, you can find my previous comment about it (I don't want to spam the whole thread over and over with the same message)
The Relay plugin is fantastic for multiplayer and/or nesting a "work" vault in a parent "personal" vault.