Obsidian - Connected Notes 4+

I love having full freedom from the note taking apps. I know my notes will always be mine and I'll never have to worry about Evernote going down or such. Although this app could be definitely improved, having the full power of the desktop application is just awesome. And there are loads of plugins to make your experience even better. Also great community. It takes a bit of time to get used to, but I've grown to love this app, specially in conjunction with the Spaced Repetition plugin to replace Anki and the Templater plugin that allows me to create really complex templates with the full power of a turing complete language like JavaScript.

I love obsidian on my laptop, it’s such a powerful software that has been a game-changer for me. But, the mobile experience is unusable. Admittedly, I’m on an iPhone SE and am using iCloud to sync my knowledge base, but the loading times for the app are 30-60 seconds every time you use it (even when you access it from multitasking), and for me, when I access it, I am shown a number of indecipherable errors (which is so frustrating, as it means I can’t understand the errors or try to fix them - these are also not present on my laptop, so it seems to be a mobile thing).

When I do get through loading, the app completely freezes - sometimes for a minute, sometimes indefinitely, and continues to freeze for every single action I try to take in the app.

If that wasn’t the case, I know the app has a rich set of features, and would be brilliant.

Where do I start? Obsidian is amazing as a tool for learning and retaining knowledge. It is infinitely customisable, and has a multitude of plugins to work with other apps that are developed within the community. As an engineering student, I create evergreen notes and questions within Obsidian that I can then review inside Anki. I’m encouraged to link notes from different modules by looking at backlinks and the amazing graph module. I can resurface notes to review them and see them again and add more information at set time intervals. Obsidian is an amazing tool - you should start using it if you haven’t already!