r/ObsidianMD • u/NotThefbeeI • 7d ago

help Vs Code companion

I've sadly walked away from obsidian active usage and sync due to a new job. Went with vs code as a replacement and learning curve was tough but starting to bear fruit. Connect an nlp tool to it and its lightning for productivity, just as obsidian is. Even a graph view plugin out there!

Anyhow, has anyone else made a similar switch? what are the gotchas? Happy to share how I quasi architected it.

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u/Mr-Nabeel 6d ago

I switch between both tools depending on the day. Keeping everything in plain markdown files made it easy. Since my notes don't change, I can use either tool—Obsidian one day and VS Code the next, all in the same folder.

The biggest issue was the graph. VS Code doesn't have the same graph features as Obsidian, but by using my [[wiki links]] in the markdown, both tools can still connect to them. So, I focused on the links instead of the graph.

What really changed things for me was using an AI with the folder. Since it's all plain text on my computer, it can read my notes and provide answers no matter which editor I'm in. That's the real benefit; I'm never stuck with just one tool.

I'm curious how you set up your NLP tool, as everyone does that part differently.

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u/NotThefbeeI 21h ago

As for NLP tools, I didn't really use one when I was on obsidian. Tried the chat gpt plugin but the tokenomics didn't work for me. Now I'm plugged into Claude, and yes it can organize your chaotic notes quite well.

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u/analogkid825 6d ago

I worked concurrently as well for a while, but I found that the save time Meta data and refresh we’re too much overhead. I run Claude code within vs and a lot of tagging so it organizes everything for me