@johnnydecimal I would recommend you give the Obsidian Plugin - Folder Notes a look. For me it feels like that’s missing in the JDEX.
On that thought: Using Obsidian with folder notes would allow to have the JDEX integrated in the folder structure → therefore every new id would be present in the JDEX right away.
I’ve used it previously. And done a stint with JDex-in-structure, i.e. Obsidian is your entire structure.
I didn’t like it. That seems to be the broad consensus here and on Discord. Your JDex just becomes messy; full of all the other stuff. I found it cluttered my thoughts.
Of course you may prefer the other way, which is the beauty of Obsidian. Use it however you like. If there’s a demand for the Folder Notes way, with notes in individual folders, I could produce that. (I kept it simple initially by design. Wanted to see what came out in the wash as people used it.)
I tried folder notes. It’s not quite what I’m after. What I like about bear is the simplicity of arrangement.
I like seeing the overview of the hierarchy of notes so I can get a sense of where I am in the filing cabinet. I’m really not do bothered about seeing the full list of hashtags that are listed on the left in bear. It’s clutter.
I’ve tried to build obsidian to look like bear and am using the red graphite theme but don’t have the tag hierarchy on the left. It’s on the right and functionality is fugly.
Obsidian so far
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Collapse results in the options button gets this. Still not quite what I’m after but better. Maybe I should just create some folders to contain the categories: 11,12, etc.
So I exported bear md to obsidian. All the tags are mixed up and I’ve got a two headings on each page.
It’s never easy.
The variant (included in the pack) Obsidian - nested structure; markdown files in folders; no #tags should get you the closest to Bear’s layout with minimal extra work.
Where Bear has a tag, this variant has a file system folder structure that mimics the functionality.
Edit: that variant has each note in a folder. That’s not how I’d do that today … I created this before I had used Obsidian much.
These two commands will move each file up a level then delete the now-empty folders. Execute them 5 times from each of the category subfolders.
DO THIS ON A COPY OBVIOUSLY!!! NOT YOUR REAL DATA
cd path/to/category/subfolder
for dir in */; do mv "$dir"*.md ./; done
rm -r */
I had hashtag hierarchy issues when I replaced the markdown files in obsidian with the ones exported from Bear.
Because of this I rebuilt the file system snd copy paste all the hashtags from Bear. It’s a pain but doesn’t take too long.
I think I have probably arrived at the same result as you suggest above @johnnydecimal. I’m going to post here to illustrate for others who can use the same if they like it.
All my md files are kept in sub category folders ie
Organising into folders makes it appear like this in Obsidian
If you install the tag folder plugin then you can view the hastags like in bear. Just drag the hashtag icon over to the left to get the same layout:
Pretty much all of the advice I got from this post on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/wrs5wi/bear_minimum_obsidian/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
My screenshots my older posts above were using a different theme call red graphite but i have now ditched this for minimal set to things colour scheme.
PS Obsidian Filename Heading Sync will add the filename to the top of the md file and you will see two names at the top of the page unless you disable the inline title. I’ve chosen not to use this and deleted the headings at the top of the md files exported from Bear.
