Hi Ed. Good to meet you. Sounds like we’ve come from a very similar place. A few Obsidian features/plugins I really like are
- Spaced repetition with Remnote style syntax. It’s brilliant for creating flashcards to learn things
- Natural Language Dates. Just type a date and press a shortcut key, and the date is rendered accurately in a YYYY-MM-DD format (or whichever format you choose). I prefer this method to having a pop up calendar, but the two can also be combined interactively (see excellent Fantastical calendar for Mac)
- A “command palette”. This is very similar to the forward slash trigger, but it has a much bigger search box (placed centrally), and uses fuzzy matching to rank hits. This would be useful if the plugin ecosystem were to take off, bringing in a wealth of new commands / functions which might be overwhelming if accessed via the forward slash trigger.
I dabbled in Roam a while ago, and can’t recall many Roam features from then which are not replicated in Obsidian. I do recall being impressed by the Roam implementation of Tables, and Kanban.