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How I use Obsidian (2023)

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Re: How I use Obsidian (2023)

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Post by mold_aid »

elcapitan wrote: post #42

Obsidian is very flexible, and what a lot of these "how I use Obsidian" tutorials miss is to give a reason why the person is actually using it the way they are using it. Seems like this guy is using it mostly to store meeting notes or journaling. Of the many influencery Obsidian tutorials on Youtube, 99% of them seem to be using it to keep notes for creating Obsidian tutorials. Would be interesting to have differing…

You don't think those exist? Obsidian forum has a lot of individual use-cases and more than a couple academics. erazlogo's public vault was as influential to me on how I use it as K. Healy's exposition of his use of R in emacs.

Re: How I use Obsidian (2023)

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Post by Dumblydorr »

elcapitan wrote: post #42

Obsidian is very flexible, and what a lot of these "how I use Obsidian" tutorials miss is to give a reason why the person is actually using it the way they are using it. Seems like this guy is using it mostly to store meeting notes or journaling. Of the many influencery Obsidian tutorials on Youtube, 99% of them seem to be using it to keep notes for creating Obsidian tutorials. Would be interesting to have differing…

It’s great for sheet music and for DnD DMing. I also use it store all things I write. I don’t use links though, I’m a barbarian who uses folders and canvases

Re: How I use Obsidian (2023)

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Post by mold_aid »

borh375 wrote: post #38

Back when I was looking for a new PKM system, I remember a "competitor" (now irrelevant) of obsidian making fun via Quote tweet of the Files over app manifesto, saying something like "nobody cares about the way the notes are stored". Ironically, that mean-spirited tweet made me discover Obsidian, and I've adopted it since then as I strongly agree with the philosophy of sovereignty over the content by them being plain…

>And with the new LLM powered

The what now? Did I miss an update

Re: How I use Obsidian (2023)

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Post by PurpleRamen »

kelvinjps10 wrote: post #52
afcool83 wrote: post #13

Just for context, Steph Ango is the CEO of Obsidian. His approach to notetaking in his own app made the rounds in the PKM (personal knowledge management) community for how _counterintuitive_ it was. He eschews a lot of the common wisdom pushed by influencers in this space who tout "the one true way™" to stay organized. File splattered in the root? Sure. Unresolved links to notes that don't exist and probably never wi…

I feel like organization it's not as important now with search in computers. Like you can search anything also there is tags.

Search becomes useless if you drown in results. A good organization should assist in shortening paths, but if you start the path manually or through a search doesn't matter much.

Re: How I use Obsidian (2023)

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Simboo wrote: post #10

Don’t over complicate this everyone. This is the best file-explorer GUI ever made hands down. All your files map 1-to-1 with the OS filesystem. No double clicking files over and over again. No getting lost in endless unsorted directories. Launch any file extension type straight from the same explorer GUI. I use this app less as a second brain and more as a personal document vault. (Markdown is ugly sorry about it) I…

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Re: How I use Obsidian (2023)

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Post by seivan »

nivcmo wrote: post #66

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I've been doing this as well, but using regular editors. What benefit does Obsidian give here that a text editor doesn't give? You just want to write/paste something for storing but I never understood why I needed a different editor for it.

Re: How I use Obsidian (2023)

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Post by infecto »

PurpleRamen wrote: post #64
kelvinjps10 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like organization it's not as important now with search in computers. Like you can search anything also there is tags.

Search becomes useless if you drown in results. A good organization should assist in shortening paths, but if you start the path manually or through a search doesn't matter much.

But shouldn’t search be responsible for reducing or at least ranking the results in such a way that no matter how many results you find what you are looking for in the top N?

Using a hybrid of traditional and semantic is so trivial to implement these days that I think we have past the point of needing good organization.

Re: How I use Obsidian (2023)

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Post by olav »

> I avoid folders because many of my entries belong to more than one area of thought

This is the reason why I find Trilium Notes so liberating, where one note can have many parents.

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