#0114
Couple of weeks ago I asked on Pillowfort about mobile-friendly Markdown first text editors.
I settled on Markleaf and used it for a couple of weeks as a start. Then, I was recommended Joplin which I have heard good things about for a long time alongside Obsidian before switching to the latter. So over the weekend, I moved my notes to Joplin!
Why do all this? Well, I used to have a vault ' just for notes I took on my phone. I find it really comfortable to write in it—most updates to the microblog are written on the mobile browser.
The downside to my vault set up was that note retrieval was clunky. Put it simply, I forgot the notes I took because I had a daily note set up. I couldn't see what I had written on previous days and whatever drafts I had written end up gathering dust. I tried using Tasks and Calendar plugins to improve retrieval but neither of these could retrieve substitles and their contents. On those files, I had several drafts that I'm working on publishing.
What could work for me instead? I think a thumbnail view showing the text inside each note. RIP Evernote which perished at the evil clutches of capitalism. It it but a zombie now. My Evernote account was set up to show a thumbnail view of the most recent files edited.
Ironically, I moved to Obsidian because it didn't have bi-directional linking but it's not a feature that I have needed on these past couple of drafts I've been working on.
I'm still not 100% clear on what I'm looking for. I haven't given Obsidian Bases a try yet. Maybe that's just the look I need.