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Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

#181

I know this thread seems to be Obsidian specific, but wanted to share: I've been writing down every detail of my day since January 2021 on Diarly. I pay $15 a year to have it sync across iCloud devices. I have two "journals" - one for personal, and one for work. From thoughts, to encounters during the day, to what food I ate, I write everything. It has dramatically improved my day-to-day. I've had trouble remembering…

Do you do this at the end of the day or throughout the day?

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seriously? Where do I even start! | Assumed Audience: People who are interested in working effectively Do you have this problem? Cue late-night "infomercial" video of women having back pain and unable to reach can of tuna high in the cupboard. Then you need our miracle cure! | Then I had a flash of inspiration: now that I’m using Obsidian, I never have to do this again. Oh look, it solves all the problems! But wait t…

Doesn't make them wrong though.

I didn't say it was wrong.

I said I wasn't interested.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

#183

Does anyone have any experience with Joplin[0] as an alternative? I'm looking into using SyncThing + Joplin to create a sort of 'networked personal brain'. I was originally looking at Obsidian, but the arguments on why they chose not to go FOSS are pretty weak[2] imo, so I'm looking at using Joplin instead. [0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ [1] https://syncthing.net/ [2] https://obsidian.rocks/why-isnt-obsidia…

IIRC Joplin stores notes in a SQLite DB which is a huge no-no to sync with syncthing. Even the syncthing devs warn against syncing SQLite databases. It will seem to work fine until two machines write to the database independently (perhaps each is offline) and then their changes can't be reconciled by syncthing and data is lost or conflicted.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

#184

I know this thread seems to be Obsidian specific, but wanted to share: I've been writing down every detail of my day since January 2021 on Diarly. I pay $15 a year to have it sync across iCloud devices. I have two "journals" - one for personal, and one for work. From thoughts, to encounters during the day, to what food I ate, I write everything. It has dramatically improved my day-to-day. I've had trouble remembering…

Do you do this at the end of the day or throughout the day?

Not the op but I keep a record of my work day. I try to do it as it happens but 50% of the time things come up so I'll usually spend some time before signing off to try to capture everything.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

#186

I know this thread seems to be Obsidian specific, but wanted to share: I've been writing down every detail of my day since January 2021 on Diarly. I pay $15 a year to have it sync across iCloud devices. I have two "journals" - one for personal, and one for work. From thoughts, to encounters during the day, to what food I ate, I write everything. It has dramatically improved my day-to-day. I've had trouble remembering…

The major thing that people overlook in note-taking is "habit". Doesn't matter if you use Notepad, Obsidian or just plain pen&paper, the single most thing that matters is that you do it consistently. And like you said, consistent note-taking is a great cognitive exercise and has long term benefits.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

#187

Does anyone have any experience with Joplin[0] as an alternative? I'm looking into using SyncThing + Joplin to create a sort of 'networked personal brain'. I was originally looking at Obsidian, but the arguments on why they chose not to go FOSS are pretty weak[2] imo, so I'm looking at using Joplin instead. [0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ [1] https://syncthing.net/ [2] https://obsidian.rocks/why-isnt-obsidia…

IIRC Joplin stores notes in a SQLite DB which is a huge no-no to sync with syncthing. Even the syncthing devs warn against syncing SQLite databases. It will seem to work fine until two machines write to the database independently (perhaps each is offline) and then their changes can't be reconciled by syncthing and data is lost or conflicted.

Notes in Joplin are stored plain text with obfuscated filenames. The only time joplin uses a DB is for indexing.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

#188

Does anyone have any experience with Joplin[0] as an alternative? I'm looking into using SyncThing + Joplin to create a sort of 'networked personal brain'. I was originally looking at Obsidian, but the arguments on why they chose not to go FOSS are pretty weak[2] imo, so I'm looking at using Joplin instead. [0] https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/ [1] https://syncthing.net/ [2] https://obsidian.rocks/why-isnt-obsidia…

Doesn't Joplin store all notes in a SQLite DB? I'd recommend looking into Logseq[0], it's free and open source and stores all notes on disk as Markdown. I version my notes with Git, but Syncthing will also work. [0] https://logseq.com/

No, Joplin stores files as plain text with obfuscated filenames. An SQLite DB is only involved for indexing and search.

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

#190

> Update the link to the weekly note. (I can definitely use a templating plugin to make this happen automatically, but haven’t spent the time on that yet.) Here ya go! (Requires Templater plug-in) ``` Week: [[ -W ]] ```

HEYO the internet did my work for me! Thanks!
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