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Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by rpastuszak »

tfsh wrote: post #7

There's a useful plugin called "Daily Notes" which automatically creates a note each day with your desired template, along with the calendar plugin I have a daily chronology of everything I've done which I deem noteworthy. If anyones interested in Obsidian and daily journalling keep the initial ceremony low. Some people have sections for challenges, achievements, mood, emails, to-dos, etc. That'll be far too much cog…

I've just transitioned from Apple Notes to Obsidian and so far I'm loving it. In terms of high quality free software (not nec. OSS) it feels like the same league as Blender. It's so simple and so powerful.

I use it for ad hoc notes and research (e.g. project ideas, an ML-course I'm taking now, random interesting subjects beyond tech) as well as for daily journaling.

I start my day by writing in a "stream of consciousness" app I wrote for myself: https://enso.sonnet.io.

The format is as follows (ca. 20m each morning, 700-800 words):

- 100% unstructured description of my previous day, then

- 3-4 things I found beautiful or interesting, then

- a short TODO list for the day.

Then I just copy past the notes into my new daily note in Obsidian.

This seems to work really well for me. If I was to pick one improvement, it would be Apple Reminders treating multi-line text as separate entries when pasting. But again, it takes just a few seconds, and most of my workflow is just muscle memory at this stage.

PS. I'm thinking about writing an Open AI Whisper powered transcription tool for voice notes in Obsidian. If that's something you'd find useful and would be prepared to pay for, please let me know.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by edelans »

oxff wrote: post #120
edelans wrote: post #111

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same here. I've been using obsidian for more than a year now, and my notes are highly categorized in a structured hierarchy. But I regularly feel this is not optimal (sometime a note could fall into 2 different branches of my hierarchy), and I can feel the friction it creates when I want to add a note but I first have to think where to put it. So for people not leveraging folders, do you just create all the notes in…

All of mine are in same folder, and I use search or linked / unlinked panels for finding / creating links. Thousands of notes in same folder doesnt really matter if you use the Obs. provided tools to navigate it.

interesting. Thanks for sharing. I should probably give it a try and "let go" some control over the structure.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by UI_at_80x24 »

General question for the Obsidian gurus in the audience.

    Is there anyway to use tab-key mid-line?  I do not want to indent the start of my line, and I'd be happy to have tab-character auto-convert to spaces, but I cannot use this tool unless I have a way to tab.

    I seem to use tab to make columns of lists, usually two or three columns worth.  A decent analogy would be like the hosts file, or CRON.  2+ vertically aligned columns of lists.

    I understand that  doesn't exist in markdown, but vim is able to convert tab-characters to spaces, is there any kind of plugin that allows this functionality?

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by raesene9 »

callahad wrote: post #117
raesene9 wrote: post #88

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Obsidian is free though. Even for syncing it's totally possible to do that wit just git (which is what I do)

Only for personal use. If you're using it at work, you're supposed to purchase a license. https://obsidian.md/eula > You need to pay for Obsidian if and only if you use it to contribute, directly or indirectly, to revenue-generating, work-related activities in a company that has two or more people.

That's not exactly how I'd read that EULA. To me it's asking for payment if you use it for work not at work. so someone recording personal notes on a work system wouldn't fall into that category, but someone using it for product development at their company would...

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by raesene9 »

pwillia7 wrote: post #107
raesene9 wrote: post #86

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FWIW I use Obsidian, and just a private GitHub account and git for syncing, it works well no costs, I just need to remember to use git :)

webhook?

yeah I could likely automate it if needed but generally I'm ok with manual sync for now.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by inferense »

tfsh wrote: post #7

There's a useful plugin called "Daily Notes" which automatically creates a note each day with your desired template, along with the calendar plugin I have a daily chronology of everything I've done which I deem noteworthy. If anyones interested in Obsidian and daily journalling keep the initial ceremony low. Some people have sections for challenges, achievements, mood, emails, to-dos, etc. That'll be far too much cog…

this is great. For those who have a similar workflow we've built a tool[1] around daily documents which on provides full fledged tasks and calendar that can be synced with Gcal or any other calendar via .ics.

[1] https://acreom.com

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by leogout »

vbezhenar wrote: post #82
manbash wrote: post #19

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I am constantly finding myself deliberating whether I should or shouldn't use folders in my Obsidian vault. Most of the times folders feel artificial. I prefer tags nowadays as the single source. The times I separate to a folder is for very-specific Dataview data-only pages, and for storing assets such as images.

I don't understand the concept of using tags or even avoiding them. Everything in my brain is highly categorized and those categories are hierarchical. Computer / Kubernetes / Helm / Something.md Computer / Java / JVM / Garbage Collection Tuning.md Construction / Foundation / Shallow Strip Foundation.md Hobby / 3D Printing / On Shape.md And so on. I don't even think that I need links. May be some. What I need is the…

That is very true to me as well, in my head things are organized in a hierarchy of concepts. The nice thing about tags is that it allows you to store a note below multiple tags like in my case a note about something I did with Python at work, tagged with #work, #work/project_name but also with #python.

I use a plugin called Tag Wrangler to show my tags as a tree like folders (it interprets the "/" as a parent directory).

This allows me to keep a note below multiple tags which I think is useful, at least for my own usecase.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by axelf4 »

UI_at_80x24 wrote: post #123

General question for the Obsidian gurus in the audience. Is there anyway to use tab-key mid-line? I do not want to indent the start of my line, and I'd be happy to have tab-character auto-convert to spaces, but I cannot use this tool unless I have a way to tab. I seem to use tab to make columns of lists, usually two or three columns worth. A decent analogy would be like the hosts file, or CRON. 2+ vertically aligned…

That just sounds like a table but with extra steps?

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Post by Sakos »

oxff wrote: post #4
emptyparadise wrote: post #2

Personally my Obsidian notes are a reflection of the chaos in my head. The neurons (notes) of my second brain all interconnect without rhyme or reason or folders or tagging...

This is imo how most people should start and use it. All these "structure first" approaches are like using someone else's preferred way of learning and memorizing, if it works its an happy accident. You'll get your structure out of your mind once you learn to know it.

Articles like this are useful to see what's possible. You don't have to copy his workflow 1:1, you can take ideas from many places and design a workflow that works for you.

Guaranteed the author didn't start "structure first". It's something that developed into its current form over a long time of experimenting and refinement.

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