#Noteplan app instructions.pdf windows

The graph, embeds, search tools, command palette, and pane management features all make Obsidian a bit more powerful, for me. I find Obsidian’s “ IDE for thought” approach to be more productive than NotePlan.

#Noteplan app instructions.pdf windows

For example, you can open notes in their own windows on macOS you can use to tag people and it’ll pull them together, and there’s a CloudKit-based collaboration option (e.g., share a note with another NotePlan user and you can both edit it simultaneously). NotePlan also provides a few other benefits unavailable in Obsidian. (E.g., I can review and interact with every “overdue” task from my previous daily notes in one view.) But if you are, NotePlan provides an intuitive rollup of tasks that is very handy. If you’re not managing projects/tasks within your notes, this won’t matter. NotePlan gives us a powerful way to access and add to our notes when away from the desk. Below I go over some of the reasons you might want both. 4Įither app on its own might be good enough for many people. And on iOS/iPadOS, with Shortcuts and NotePlan’s URL scheme, you can build all kinds of neat workflows to speed up adding or retrieving thoughts from your notes database.

You can sync your notes with fast and reliable CloudKit syncing. It has great URL scheme support, works with all the macOS features you know and love. It can’t show you a local graph visualization of how your current note relates to the rest of your thinking, render your notes as presentation slides, or run RegEx searches on your notes (all things Obsidian can do!). And because there’s no iOS companion, you may be frustrated by the inability to access your thinking when you’re away from the desk. You can’t use e.g., services or AppleScript to work with it, and it lacks a lot of menu options and default macOS text tools (like text replacement and default text navigation shortcuts). Also, for anyone who’s used to working on a Mac, you may find that Obsidian misses out on a lot of the Mac’s native power tools. However, it only operates on desktop operating systems at the moment (e.g., macOS). Obsidian’s based on Electron, and as a result it’s highly flexible and has an extensive cross-platform community building new ways of working with your notes. Obsidian and NotePlan provide a complementary set of tools. 3 Why use NotePlan and Obsidian together? Both Obsidian and NotePlan recognize and navigate the same ]-style note links. To state this clearly: you can use Obsidian and NotePlan to work with the exact same files-no import-export-import roundabout nor sync processes needed.

And, as of the current beta of NotePlan 3, it works on markdown files, too.Ī screenshot of NotePlan with this article in view. NotePlan is a kind of super-powerful “ bullet journal.” It allows you to take extensive, linked notes about your life and work, and it provides intuitive ways of searching and filtering those notes for review and actionability while allowing you to link them with events, reminders, and time blocking. 2 It is a clean and effective way of linking notes with Calendar and Reminders apps. NotePlan is a calendar-driven note-taking app for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. It has lots of neat plugins, a graph view to show the connections between your thoughts, and extensive customizability.Ī screenshot of Obsidian with this article in view. Obsidian provides a kind of Integrated Development Environment ( IDE) for thinking. 1 It’s a sleek, highly community-driven tool-in fact, an alpha of Obsidian’s API was just launched. Obsidian is a linked thought app that operates on markdown files. Most of this is intuitive, but it may be useful to have it all in one place. In this post, I provide an overly-detailed overview of setting up and using Obsidian and NotePlan together. Beware! Much can change, and you should expect glitches. Note: both Obsidian and NotePlan 3 are beta apps. If you’d implemented this guide before Oct. 30, 2020, you’ll want to open a “new” Obsidian vault at this location (and reset any other scripts/apps that were interacting with NotePlan notes synced via CloudKit.) ⚠️ The new location is ~/Library/Containers/co.noteplan.NotePlan3/Data/Library/Application Support/co.noteplan.NotePlan3/. ⚠️ Oct 30, 2020 - CloudKit sync users: The latest edition of the NotePlan 3 beta moves the directory of your NotePlan notes to comply with Apple’s sandboxing policies.