Perhaps I’ve missed something, but I think you need a good, focussed tutorial to get people up and running, especially if they’ve just started Roam first, and are doing a comparison with Obsidian. Most users of these types of app will be reading and recording non-fiction books, articles, etc., so an ideal small tutorial will be on creating a record of books read, to be read, in progress, which leads to keeping track of authors, and also categorizing the books, etc.
Since this was pretty much the first thing I did in Roam, I wanted to do the same thing in Obsidian, and see what differences there might be. As a search on YouTube found mostly broad-brush reviews or comparisons, and a few more detailed but not-so-high production values efforts, I decided to export from Roam and import into Obsidian with markdown automatic conversion. (Nice!: I see the “PARA Starter Kit” hint to the right, so I will be following that up…)
The import seemed to work fairly well, but after a bit of manual cleanup I’m getting some odd results. I’m assuming the icon that tooltips as “Upload” is how I do attachments… yep.
What I’m wondering is if this represents a bug, that is the differences between the specific book in the right panel, and how it appears in the search window: why is the author line always outdented? why does one author line show only one leading * instead of two? why does one book (Drive) not show Authors: at all, but instead just ]] ? And why in the edit or preview window is there such a wide margin on the left of my entered data?
And lastly, how do I get a “Books” page that shows all my books, or an “Authors” page that shows all my authors? (similar to what I get if I do a search on those tags).
I’d be grateful to anyone who can explain these idiosyncrasies.
JV
