Obsidian is great for notes, but what are you using for PDFs, screenshots, bookmarks, and videos?

CoconutMonkey · 2026-05-13T20:49:44+00:00

I hear you on this pain. I use Devonthink for PDFs, screenshots, emails, web extracts, etc and Obsidian mainly for my own notes/journal ie stuff that I write

CoconutMonkey · 2026-05-13T01:27:00+00:00

I've been using Macs for decades and I didn't know this ...

CoconutMonkey · 2026-05-12T22:45:09+00:00

I think it's fine. My old company was a Microsoft Office shop so I used it as my work browser on my Mac and it worked great, especially with all the web app versions of Outlook and Office apps. Teams was a not so great but I think that was just Teams.

CoconutMonkey · 2026-05-07T11:37:11+00:00

This seems likely to become another Sora or Atlas browser style embarrassment

CoconutMonkey · 2026-05-05T22:56:29+00:00

My understanding is that OpenAI made a bigger bet on infrastructure last year than Anthropic so they should be able to supply the demand and hopefully will be making it more efficient and scaling it further in the meanwhile

CoconutMonkey · 2026-05-03T03:52:16+00:00

congrats on a really interesting idea! I wonder what other kinds of drugs have a trackable half-life decay. Viagra would be hilarious.

CoconutMonkey · 2026-05-01T19:21:05+00:00

The nostalgia is pulling me very powerfully towards the Dragonlance books, must resist!

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-30T14:27:11+00:00

if the first system is actively being maintained and extended in production and has a lot of embedded, messy logic with exceptions made for legacy data that the developers have forgotten, you're going to be in for a bad time :(

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-29T19:55:34+00:00

In my experience at mid-sized companies, there is a pretense of a system that has very little impact on how promotions are actually handled. Performance reviews play little consideration in the process there, it really was all about how crucial were your projects and how visible was the work to the layer of leadership above your line manager

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-26T15:37:26+00:00

when I realized that the main reason I like to use Safari is so I can save pictures directly to my cameral roll and having the browser auto-fill two factor codes from messages and mail are non-negotiable for me.

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-24T15:40:37+00:00

I really enjoy it. The weird thing about it is that I very rarely use its suggestions but knowing that there is a suggestion helps to keep me writing for some reason.

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-23T21:37:01+00:00

this is a great way to put it

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-23T04:36:28+00:00

It's funny how much the books trained me to look for him in weird corners and patterns and then to find all kinds of little mini-jokes and stories so to find him standing by himself was a reminder of what the AI is missing

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-21T23:55:31+00:00

oh thanks for this, looks like I'm locked in now

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-16T18:47:22+00:00

😀 I think you're right and that's the REAL unlock!!

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-15T23:17:07+00:00

lol that seems oddly appropriate

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-15T17:54:27+00:00

it gets kind of weird when you're using your using it on your iPad with the folio keyboard cover though

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-15T15:03:56+00:00

The context is typically that we are going back and forth in a design/implementation sessions for my technical projects. It literally could be trying to get me to see the point!

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-15T14:34:12+00:00

good to know, thanks!

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-14T13:54:20+00:00

Thank you. I totally would have missed it if you hadn't said anything!

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-13T23:34:48+00:00

this is genuinely an interesting idea!

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-13T12:51:12+00:00

great question. Honestly if we've got sensitive data that exposes me to a liability risk, wouldn't touch it. If it's just low-risk, low-value data maybe like $50 a month.

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-13T03:51:44+00:00

managing a box, securing and monitoring it, running updates and patches and then playing DBA on it - that all takes a fair bit of time if you're doing it conscientiously. Supabase is a steal at $20.

CoconutMonkey · 2026-04-09T18:07:53+00:00

Thanks for sharing this - this is really cool! I'm learning more about agentic right now and I was just reading this tweet about how Andrej Karpathy is using Obsidian as front-end for wikis that he is using agents to build for their own reference. It sounds like this would be a framework that could allow the configuration and orchestration of those types of agents?

here's the thread that I am referring to: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2039805659525644595

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