I got made fun of as a child by a parent for doing art and just... never did any ever afterwards. I primarily hang around artists tho and would like to relate to them more, but none of them do creative writing. I've read numerous grammar books, so that won't be a problem, but none really go in to how to construct a sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, plot, etc. I'll happily take any advice on the subject, really anything you can think for someone with actually zero experience.
Good advice I've gotten so far is to just write basically whatever. Also, people who are visual artists and creative writers, which was "easier" for you to become fluent?
My recommendation is to go on a tangent installing a bunch of obsidian plugins and then never actually write anything
Hey this is out of topic, but can you use obsidian with several people? Like they can connect to your notes and such and they get synced? I looked it up after your comment and it looks very interesting, I just need it to do that.
It can be done but Obsidian is not necessarily the best software to do it. Google Docs or Notion could easily be better depending on your project. You can have everyone use Obisidian's paid monthly subscription for sync, or you can use syncthing for close to real-time availability of changes, but you might not be able to have both of you typing in the same note. Because the notes are in markdown, you can use Git and Github to get the advantages of version control like branching and being able to use new versions, but it's very fiddly to set up on mobile and not all that beginner-friendly. For a big project like Prolewiki I would personally prefer Obsidian and Git.
Thanks for your answer! The syncthing integration looks good, but I'm not sure about one thing. Would I need to install it on a server to serve as a relay, or is it sufficient to install it on every device that is gonna use Obsidian (e.g. my computer and my phone)? We would be 2 people using it, on 4 devices. I've never heard of syncthing before and have some trouble understanding how it works or integrates with the obsidian plugin.
It's not for ProleWiki unfortunately haha, it's for another personal project.
Syncthing is not mainly a centralized service. You would just need to install it on every device and point it at your Obsidian vault. On your computer you should keep it running constantly. You will need to add each device to share the folder. On the phone I recommend Nutomic's syncthing fork. You will want to keep it running constantly on the phone while you're editing and limit it to syncing once an hour or so otherwise, as it can eat your battery to have it on all the time. I think it handles conflicts by writing a second file with the other version. You'll then have to diff and merge them manually in that case, but it shouldn't happen that often.
Syncthing is not a plugin at all AFAIK but just a daemon that you run to sync your files. It's like Dropbox but less centralized. So it exists outside of Obsidian and syncs the files that are in the Obsidian vault.
Thanks, gonna have to look more into this. I downloaded Obsidian and it looks really cool but yeah I've quickly grown accustomed to syncing between devices lol. 5$ a month for their sync service is not expensive compared to other SaaS solutions that are not nearly as customizable, but I saw they only give you 1 GB storage space
I use syncthing to transfer files between devices, upload pics from my phone camera to the computer right after I take them, etc. It's great.
I should really finish switching from Google Drive to Syncthing eventually because the options for Drive clients on Linux are dire
I don't use Google services at all, as a matter of principle. Even my phone has a de-Googled custom ROM.
That's how it should be done. Someday I'll have my life together enough to stop putting that off
It freaks me out that if you're logged into google, then ALL your activity in your browser on EVERY website is monitored and recorded. If you use NoScript, uBlock origin or uMatrix then you'll see that nearly every website has "google tag manager" and "google syndication" scripts running. So Google, and by extension law enforcement, can see what websites you've visited, what pages you read, what you searched for (as most searches are sent as a GET request) and so on.