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I typically keep a daily note and then if any one section gets large, move it to it's own note and link it in my daily. The blocks would be a great addition though.
I’d really like to understand how people managers who work on teams / corporate environments use Obsidian. I find that most of my work meetings are shared docs. It often feels like double work to put some things in Obsidian and move them around. I also don’t use Obsidian as a task list - I use Todoist which is totally fine for that.
There are some challenges with duplication, and I either keep my own version (focused on what I need to know about it), or I just have a link to the other system.
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.
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…
> I pay $15 a year to have it sync across iCloud devices. Curious how you do this? The Obsidian Sync option is $96/year.
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…
> I pay $15 a year to have it sync across iCloud devices. Curious how you do this? The Obsidian Sync option is $96/year.
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…
It’s great for myself that always forget the little, prized memories too.
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It's weird how you phrased your comment, but I suppose it gives you a cult vibe as opposed to say Typora or Marktext, maybe because it's too distinct and kind of opinionated and used/promoted by people who could be seen as cult leaders?
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…
I used Joplin for some time. It is really good and it has been very stable. Using Joplin Web Clipper from Firefox I could also snip pages (or parts of pages) into Joplin. But the most amazing thing is that - it works on mobile devices as well. - No lock in: it syncs flawlessly (AFAIK) over WebDAV so I can sync all my data using a really inexpensive Hetzner instance. Personally I happily used it for a long time but al…
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Regarding point 1, are.na effectively does this for bookmarking, by showing you the categories that others have stored the same bookmark to (so really showing you what they thought was related, according to whatever relationship they were interested in) which I think is a much more reliable/same way to approach the problem — its much more precise, as the other user was literally on the same page as you at some point,…
Very interesting, Thanks for introducing me to are.na. I like that they've essentially outsourced the computation required to classify the content to real humans. I understand the value in adding context to the bookmarks, But does it help in any way to recall a bookmark when I need it? Because not using the bookmark is a real problem[1] but I find the suggestions from bookmarks in Firefox address bar quite useful; In…
Not particularly, except that the same bookmark can be placed in multiple groupings, so the usual organizational structure used is typically more conceptual; e.g. I had a grouping for Anime Recommendation System, which shares a bunch of links with CS Whitepapers as well as Social Dynamics; and of course Evangelion gets plastered in all sorts of random topics. CS Whitepapers is a fairly useless category for recall but a nice place to dump things, whereas Anime Recommendation System is a more focused project — and if I’m looking for recommendation system papers, I’ll obviously remember the latter more clearly, and find the related.
So basically recall by duplication, and the organizational flexibility.
Recall by auto-suggestion I think is useful in a different fashion, but vaguely meets the above by accident. It mostly serves to:
1. Help you complete a URL you only partially remember
2. Show you bookmarks that are strictly related to what you’re doing, based on similar keywords + a neighboring expansion of them
3. Accidentally show you bookmarks completely unrelated to what you’re doing, but causes a mental refresh - this is where it mostly competes with are.na
In other words, the autosuggestion is googling, and are.na is acting like Wikipedia. The former is much faster, and better when you’re precise, but its similarity metrics are quite limited. Whereas the latter can cross much wider chasms of similarity
If anyone is interested in. I'm working on a "emacs-like" system that you can also use to take notes in, but it's more line a Outliner(like Roam Research) + Brownser. It's still in development. https://github.com/ilse-langnar/notebook
Are there any specific use cases you're working on right now?
BTW, I'm seeing blank page when I run the demo linked from the README. Chrome on Windows.