Obsidian in public beta

Posted by satis
May 30, 2020 at 09:04 PM

The double-pane preview/output structure will fall away once they implement the Typora-style editor they’re working on. But Erica’s comments indicate that seems to be several months away.

Unfortunately, if you hide the output window the editor expands to fill the space, which makes each line of text much too wide for me when writing and reading.

I agree with the comments about Roam’s immature management. I am not in such dire need to switch to a new system for editing, let alone a ‘second brain’ so I have no intention to migrate to Roam or any beta-release system at present. I figure that this time next year we’ll see a lot of more mature companies with more mature products offering the most useful of the Roam/Obsidian features, like backlinks. Right now for example TiddlyWiki with the TiddlyBlink plugin (and possibly also TiddlyMap, which someone renamed TiddlyRoam https://joekroese.github.io/tiddlyroam/ ) offers a powerful and free Roam-like experience (admittedly with limitations related to mobile use and sync).

https://youtu.be/HfoGR4AYT5Y?t=1012