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Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 4, 2025 at 08:39 AM
... and a couple of other things I should have mentioned.
There are back/forward arrows in the top (menu) bar which allow you to move back/forward through the pages you’ve been viewing.
And apart from the universal search engine (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+K), there’s a simple in-page search function called up by the usual Cmd/Ctrl+F which works very well, especially if you’ve got big pages. This function does highlight hits in the page!
acreom supports wikilinks, so linking to a page is a simple matter of typing two [[ and some of the text in your target page’s name, whereupon a list of pages with that text in their names appears.
I keep most of my to-dos in Project boxes. But I keep copious notes in the folders underneath (all of these things are in the sidebar). Thanks to wikilinks and the friendly “Move to” function in the context menu, it’s easy to link to notes and/or move them into or out of Projects. I have a large screen on my desktop, so I’ve got 11 Project boxes in the sidebar and 3 View boxes, apart from the 4 standard boxes put there by acreom itself (My Day, Active [a list of all your tasks, no matter what page they’re on, although you can filter it if you wish], All Pages [regardless of which Project or folder they’re in] and Archive [doesn’t appear to work, but I live in hope!]). But below these boxes I have a standard hierarchy of folders and subfolders with linked notes and thoughts, including meeting notes.
Personally, I’ve labelled my Project boxes based on broad parameters (e.g. Business Development, Family, Personal, Admin, Quotes, Projects, etc.) – each Project box can hold as many pages as you want, which in turn can hold as many tasks as you want. The Views are smart lists that show pages filtered by various criteria (for example, I have one called Meeting Actions that shows the list of tasks from my various pages containing minutes of meetings).
I also use acreom for journaling (I used to use Obsidian, but it’s easier to keep it all in one place). I do use Obsidian to edit or reorganise journal entries on occasion (remember, you can open an acreom Vault as an Obsidian Vault if you wish), or else I use my favourite markdown editor Typora.
And that’s it, I think!
Cheers!
Bill
Posted by Franz Grieser
Feb 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Thanks, Bill.
That’s very helpful.
After Obsidian kept freezing when I opened a particular vault, I started looking for an alternative. It turned out my problem was caused by a community plugin - after disabling all of them at once, I could access my vault again.
I do not want to go back to a PKM with proprietary database/file format. So a PKM using the MD files on the disk is what I am looking for. And there are only a few alternatives to Obsidian. acreom has the strongest appeal for me.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Feb 4, 2025 at 03:15 PM
I’ve had exactly the same issue. I’ve now refined my list of Obsidian plugins to a bare minimum, which meets pretty well all my needs, but I prefer to manage my tasks using another system, although I still use Obsidian for research and writing work!
Franz Grieser wrote:
Thanks, Bill.
>That’s very helpful.
>After Obsidian kept freezing when I opened a particular vault, I started
>looking for an alternative. It turned out my problem was caused by a
>community plugin - after disabling all of them at once, I could access
>my vault again.
>I do not want to go back to a PKM with proprietary database/file format.
>So a PKM using the MD files on the disk is what I am looking for. And
>there are only a few alternatives to Obsidian. acreom has the strongest
>appeal for me.