You're listing standard note taking tools, and I've also mainly been using Bear so far.
But when I have a lot of notes regarding a topic I start creating a lot of sections in a note, sometimes multiple notes, which are hard to navigate from one to another, etc.
So Obsidian for me shines when I have a topic or area when I need to have a lot of nodes, which are in some ways related to one another. Or even have a hierarchical structure.
My use case currently is developing OctoSQL as a side project and having to keep:
1. TODOs
2. Random non-categorized notes
3. Ideas
4. Notes specific to some in-progress features, so i.e. a note for optimizer strategies, a note-per-datasource describing the current state and todo's related to a datasource.
And some of those are best represented as a tree hierarchy, so I can start representing that using references in Obsidian, and easily navigate them using the graph view.
Bear is too disorganized for me to do that sustainably (most notes get forgotten and re-discovered a few weeks/months later).
But when I have a lot of notes regarding a topic I start creating a lot of sections in a note, sometimes multiple notes, which are hard to navigate from one to another, etc.
So Obsidian for me shines when I have a topic or area when I need to have a lot of nodes, which are in some ways related to one another. Or even have a hierarchical structure.
My use case currently is developing OctoSQL as a side project and having to keep:
1. TODOs
2. Random non-categorized notes
3. Ideas
4. Notes specific to some in-progress features, so i.e. a note for optimizer strategies, a note-per-datasource describing the current state and todo's related to a datasource.
And some of those are best represented as a tree hierarchy, so I can start representing that using references in Obsidian, and easily navigate them using the graph view.
Bear is too disorganized for me to do that sustainably (most notes get forgotten and re-discovered a few weeks/months later).