So:

- FolderNotes

- Filename Heading Sync

- LanguageTool Integration

- Periodic Notes

Trying to keep the amount of community plugins as low as possible. Why I use each one of these I explain in that section, or in more detail on my post about my Obsidian Vault setup: https://bryanhogan.com/blog/obsidian-vault

The website & launch list: https://dailyselftrack.com/

Made a lot of progress recently, doing the last iteration of user testing before releasing the Android version.

Sharing some of the progress on BlueSky as well: https://bsky.app/profile/bryanhogan.com/post/3mkbzefvebc27

It's built with Astro and Svelte.

I originally built this more than a year ago, but have updated it with some improvements now, better interface and a few new options in the settings were added.

Hope this helps someone. Feedback and feature requests are very welcome.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48049846

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- Codex

- OpenCode Go

- Ollama Cloud

All are very useful, still a subscription, but with higher usage limits.

Specific providers like GLM also provide subscriptions like Z.ai.

Using DeepSeek, Kimi etc. through OpenRouter or from them directly is also great, here you pay per token but it's still more usage overall.

E.g. see the other comment by the Korean speaker here:

> Vocabulary changes depending on context, relationship, social distance, age, and whether the situation is public or private. North Korean speech is often more direct [...].

Also Korean slang changes incredibly fast.

Claude status: https://status.claude.com/

I have been really happy with my Codex subscription lately, but feels like these things change every other day. The OpenCode Go subscription for trying out GLM, Kimi, Qwen, Deepseek and friends also looks useful.

But nonetheless, Opus 4.6 is a very capable model, but justifying a Claude subscription gets more and more difficult, think I might just sometimes use it through OpenRouter or as part of something like Cursor (although I'm not sure about the value of that subscription as well).

OpenCode Go: https://opencode.ai/go

Cursor: https://cursor.com

Also heard of more and more people moving to Kilo Code or OpenChamber instead.

And just curious, why would using "only" 16 colors be silly?

I'm always disappointed by note-taking tools calling themselves a Notion alternative when they do not provide an alternative to Notion and are instead just another note-taking tool with a simple UI.

If you want to be a Notion alternative provide the things that make Notion great, e.g. the database functionality. It's okay to be a simple colaborative notes tool, but that is not a Notion alternative.

Obsidian is built on-top of just markdown files, so you can do whatever you want with them. E.g. if you need multiplayer editing you could use 3rd party solutions or even something like HedgeDoc.

Affine is more closer to Notion and self-hostable.

Obsidian: https://obsidian.md/

Affine: https://affine.pro/

I kinda dislike where Notion is heading though, forcing more and more things on their users without any ways to disable them. But yes, it's capable to do what you are looking for.

Maybe Affine could also work though, you can self-host it and it's more customizable: https://affine.pro/

Felt like it's worth sharing here!

Edit:

I just checked the (sadly paywalled) beginning of the article and the author also says:

> [...] alley of small apartments and trucks selling garlic, the next you’re in a modern business park so sterile it feels like a doctor’s office.

n8n: https://n8n.io/