(slightly OT): Has anyone been able to replace Notion with Obsidian in a work/team context?
I find there's just enough missing things around collaboration/permissions/sharing that makes Obsidian a non-starter for work, even for the small team I have. Also seems it just feels a bit more "scary" for non-technical users to onboard onto on than Notion.
And if I can't use it for work, I'm not going to use it personally because I don't want to juggle multiple notetakers.
I imagine Obsidian is way more efficient for sharing context between you and agents and wish I could take advantage of that, but I also need to be sharing that context with my team
A modern SQL client for web devs. Deeply integrated with your workflow (vscode, drizzle, supabase, etc), a nicer more schema-aware GUI (think Airtable), and smarter ways to save queries and export/share them.
Oh yes I've been trialing Metabase but didnt know about Superset, thank you!
This category of tools definitely scratches a big part of the itch here. But you still end up needing a db client for a long tail of other tasks. So now your db knowledge is spread across 3+ tools: shared queries/charts in Metabase, personal queries in Postico, schema defs and SQL files in your code repo, Notion, etc.
I think you've got an opportunity to consolidate all that into 1 tool in the same way Postman did for APIs
> Postgres in particular makes a lot of schema information available, but very few database clients make full use of it.
Completely agree. Also just the industry consolidation around the pg ecosystem in general will lend itself to better tooling potential (e.g. Supabase's LSP project).
> I am currently working on a mobile-first Postgres client.
Great that you're working on something new here! If I may ask - why mobile-first? That's not something I've particularly needed tbh (sample size of 1 of course)
I'll also add, my gut preference would be for a tool built independent from Supabase. I don't/can't always use Supabase/postgres and even if some future Supabase db client was opened up to connecting to any db URL, I don't know how much I'd trust it not to be optimized for Supabase at the expense of the rest of the ecosystem if that makes sense.
Not that that should stop you from trying of course :)
First off, love everything Supabase is doing. Keep it up. A few blunt things off-the-bat:
1) pg.new is neat, but honestly I don't see why I'd use it when I can do the same thing directly inside my drizzle schema dir using Cursor's Composer UI, which has full context on my project. I know not many are using Cursor right now, but it's hard to fathom these kind of features don't become part-and-parcel of code editors soon..
2) I actually find it painful to have to login to Supabase on the web to manage the database. I never use the table editor, snippets, etc. I want a native app I can CMD+Tab to.
Don't mean to be rude, just objective so you can feel my pain as a user.
In terms of the Notebooks, yeah I meant like Jupyter Notebooks. I've experimented with having a shared Notion or markdown files committed to repos in order to
A) save & search for snippets of SQL for the team/future me
B) document the "why" along with each step in a playbook.
The issues with this are
1) its detached from our normal workflow and quickly becomes outdated relative to our schema/business needs
2) to run the queries you have to copypaste back into a SQL tool
3) queries are hardcoded for certain values. If I have a report I run daily, every day I have to go in and manually update the `row.timestamp BETWEEN 'YYYY-MM-DD' AND 'YYYY-MM-DD'`, or if its a customer support workflow I have to replace the customer's ID everywhere. I'd rather have variables at the top I can reference throughout the queries, either as a code block like in Jupyter NB, or maybe some variable UI a la Insomnia/Postman
Unfortunate the author 1) wasn't made aware of just how mind altering of an experience it can be and 2) seems to have been misled that this treatment can simply "cure depression" on its own
It's my experience that psychedelics can help open your mind to different perspectives and spot unaddressed issues (I believe they're issues you just aren't "allowing" yourself to see/address), but to just take it in a clinical setting and expect it to work some magic on you.. Idk.
K can be incredibly dissociative in recreational doses & this person was given ~10-20x a recreational dose - with very little warning of the gravity of the effects. I can totally imagine why it was such a terrifying experience!
I agree with another commenter about the importance of mindset and setting. For most people, even getting to the point in their lives where they can & are willing to take psychedelics (non-clinical settings) is a long journey that shouldn't be discounted. Not saying we shouldn't pursue it in more clinical ways, just that the journey & mindset BEFORE taking the drugs is just as, if not MORE, important than the drugs themselves
I believe the implication is there will now be less incentive for app developers to ship for App Store when they can get 80% of the way there with 0% of the “hoops” to jump through (I.e. Apple guidelines)
But that’s what folk beliefs essentially are: “on average this is going to happen”
Isn’t that inherently what happens when you play telephone across time and cultures? You end up with stories stripped down to the essence, the most important advice from those who came before us boiled down.
Are you advocating that when we find what works for us we don’t share that finding with others? I think that’s exactly what’s wrong with the “science is the only right answer” mindset..
Yeah I think the article is a bit of a strawman: if you take ED to be more broadly “issues around sex” I think you’ll find a lot more people agreeing of the correlation
Just browsing the replies here I see many guys saying effectively “Well I watch tons of porn and my penis still works” which is kind of a level 1 analysis on how porn might be affecting their brain
Call me crazy but I don’t need every life decision to be backed by peer reviewed studies. I’m perfectly happy using my intuition to tell me that e.g. yes the more I jerk it to a pixels on screen portraying (often unrealistic) sex the more I’m conditioning myself to have issues with the real thing.
I know a number of highly intelligent people in the sciences who make decisions like this (searching/waiting for Science to tell them what’s right) and who laugh at me when I follow intuition/folk knowledge.
Don’t get me wrong, academic research is an amazing thing. I follow many research backed protocols for fitness, diet etc. But I also think when it comes to systems as complex as our bodies, there’s much collective wisdom in our intuition and societal traditions that science hasn’t and may never catch up to.
Congrats on the launch! Just yesterday I was pondering if I could do something like this for a saas I’m working on: I’d like to offer users the ability to extend their dashboard in certain ways (a la WP/Shopify plugins), but those ways require extending the ui AND the server code.
Extism seems like a great fit for this, I’ll definitely be checking it out :)
Problem is all the pragmatic people you want answering your questions are too pragmatic to spend time reading and leaving comments on the internet
Never say never but I don't think it's very easy to build a broad and helpful community where the factors you listed aren't at play in people's motivations.
I find better help going into very specific communities for the technologies I'm having issues with. Discord servers are a great example
I find there's just enough missing things around collaboration/permissions/sharing that makes Obsidian a non-starter for work, even for the small team I have. Also seems it just feels a bit more "scary" for non-technical users to onboard onto on than Notion.
And if I can't use it for work, I'm not going to use it personally because I don't want to juggle multiple notetakers.
I imagine Obsidian is way more efficient for sharing context between you and agents and wish I could take advantage of that, but I also need to be sharing that context with my team