I would love to be able to do the clustering from a CSV instead of a collection of Markdown files. I know I can easily generate the files, but I used to do this directly for very short text inputs (just titles or words) on nomic.ai (before they pivoted to 'Enterprise')
> more the design of how to make or useful and how to use it
Yeah 100%. Emacs is almost 50 years old and still very popular. You can't beat it on programming power. Personally, I am not an emacs person (I'm even more notion than obsidian), so I understand your selective, design first approach to this.
> take inspiration from Obsidian Dataview, LogSeq
IMO
1. Obsidian Dataview should have been editable by design (not to say batch-editable)
2. Obsidian creators should have leveraged their dynalist (outlining) heritage into their newer product.
Your project is still young of course (I like it so far !) but some features are better kept in mind from the start. I hope you will take the best of both world (= see my "block level querying" remark in previous post)
Interesting project.
It says it is inspired by obsidian (and roam).
It is also keen on "end-user Programming", so the org-mode (and org-roam) comparison is inevitable on HN (20 emacs occurences in this thread and counting...)
So, what is special?
It is polish (=creator [4]). does that count? [0]
Seriously. For one thing, I spotted the "item" and "data" as queryable data sources [1]. if this is real "block level querying" (in that freeform page format), it could be indeed a missing link between obsidian and roam/logseq [0]. It is still early days though.
[0] Outside English-speaking/Western-Europe, Siuyan [2] is another local open source KB gem that successfully bridged this (blocks + freeform) gap with a very fast dev cycle. Being Chinese, It is not popular... wait.. what about logseq [3] ? (obsidian too? no.)