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Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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It happens to be the case that I do (I am at LinkedIn) but I actually started this years ago when I was working as an independent contractor/consultant. It was the only way I could keep track of having many, many different things in flight: I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going. It actually started out as just a way to help build the nece…

> I was working on a masters' degree, working ~full time, had two little kids, and also had several side projects going. That's impressive. Probably deserves a blog post of itself on how you managed to squeeze in extra 4 hours in a day.

I've thought about writing it up but never came up with a way of doing it that doesn't just sound self-congratulatory. Honestly, two really big things for me were:

- At that age, I really only needed ~7 hours of sleep a night. - I had no commute.

Net, that's basically an extra 2 hours a day every day over what most folks I know had/have, and that's a lot. It's an extra month of time in a year!

Re: Writing down what I do in Obsidian

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Can you describe the things you like about Logseq at the moment?

Effortless switching between input and reading mode. Automation features works seamlessly and makes sense to me. No lock in (was true for Joplin as well).

How do you enable reading mode (assuming means no edits)? I looked through shortcuts and don't see it.
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