[HN Gopher] How I use Obsidian (2023)
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How I use Obsidian (2023)
Author : hisamafahri
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Date : 2026-02-17 22:30 UTC (1 days ago)
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| Insanity wrote:
| I tried Obsidian to build a "second brain". But eventually just
| reverted back to notes on my iPad (handwritten) and Vim
| (markdown) for typed notes.
|
| I actually think Obsidian is a great tool, but I just need
| something as low friction as possible to quickly jolt something
| down. Vim and Goodnotes does the trick for me.
| ehnto wrote:
| Same, all projects get a .notes folder where plain text goes.
| Home directory gets a .notes folder also. It helps to have good
| command over text based search tools.
|
| There was an exception though, where text just didn't cut it,
| which was a brief period where I was importing vehicles from
| Japan and needed lots of images, documents and comparisons up
| on a big digital whiteboard. I used LogSeq for that.
| timothyduong wrote:
| Obsidian is amazing on my desktop environments but I shared the
| same sentiment with you, on mobile I use Apple Notes and
| transpose to Obsidian if its worth doing so...
| ravenstine wrote:
| I like the desktop app, but the android app is such ass. It's
| bad enough that I wonder why they even bother.
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| Similar to mine. I use Apple Notes for quick, ephemeral notes
| and for Shared Family Notes. If they are the ones that are
| more important, they go into the plain-text notes in the
| Obsidian folder.
|
| The Notes folder(s) is sync with a Cloud Service. So, I use
| iA Writer[1] (a brilliant Notes App) to have a pleasant
| writing experience on other mobile devices. They are just
| Markdown, so I can open them in any Notes App that supports
| Markdown. I paid for iA Writer once, like 10+ years ago.
|
| 1. https://ia.net/writer
| Peacefulz wrote:
| This is a project that's always on my mind that I never take
| the time to flesh out. I can't put my finger on the scope. I
| don't know if I want a full, Johnny Decimaled PKM platform for
| my entire life, or topical, dense information about things that
| interest me.
| SOLAR_FIELDS wrote:
| I tried it several times and the one thing that got it to stick
| for me was having a structure to the markdown. I have an AST
| parser for markdown body grammar and validate the frontmatter.
| The structure helps me keep things sane and organized because
| my brain is all over the place. Beyond that, unlike OP I attach
| these schemas to folders in my vault per schema.
| Jonovono wrote:
| I really want to like obsidian but it's just unusable (for me)
|
| So I built my own thats a bit more lightweight. Think nvalt meets
| markdown. thats native, iOS and Mac with I cloud sync, and open
| source.
|
| Check it out if it sounds interesting!
|
| iOS app is still in review ;(
|
| https://hashy.ink/
| FireBeyond wrote:
| > a bit more lightweight
|
| I don't want to be overly negative, but no plugins are
| mandatory, there's no "47 step setup guide" unless you want to
| heavily customize.
|
| And as far as I can tell you mostly replaced some of the weight
| with AI?
|
| AI "Search Notes", "Organize Notes", "List and filter, tags",
| "Clean up notes"
|
| I guess I just see this as weight in a different area? You've
| pushed a lot of the weight and plugins to cloud-based AI?
|
| I am, on principle, very much a fan of "native app, not another
| Electron view".
| Jonovono wrote:
| It's a BYOK so the ai is optional. (And if you really don't
| want it it's a package in the open source app that can easily
| be pulled out) Since it's markdown and on filesystem you can
| just edit your notes with Claude code if you want similar to
| obsidian.
|
| By lightweight I mean it's not a super heavy and bloated
| electron app on desktop and a slow and janky capacitor app on
| mobile that takes 10 seconds to launch and that the project
| can be greppable in a day to build on
| FireBeyond wrote:
| I appreciate the feedback - being a bit more modularized
| like this makes more sense!
|
| And yeah, if you're referring to the whole Electron stuff
| there, I entirely agree!
| xnx wrote:
| I Use Workflowy. The features it adds over plain text/markdown
| are worth the slight added complexity. I wish it was cheaper and
| supported tables, but I'll never go back to non-outlined notes.
| hodanli wrote:
| This was me until I discovered Logseq. I still use Workflowy to
| collaborate with others, but combining notes and todos with a
| powerful query system is what makes Logseq my goto note and
| todo management tool.
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| I ~like~ love Obsidian. I also like Steph Ango and his
| philosophies. In fact, a lot of his ideas shaped and improved
| mine. His approach is opinionated.
|
| So pick the good ones you like and make your own.
|
| For instance, I'm pretty well-organized, and I like it that way.
| This leads me to native organizations using folders and some
| patterns that I learnt aloong the way. Nothing more complicated.
| One day, if I have to walk off Obsidian, I can, and I will still
| know where things are.
|
| Right now, my organization is a loose combo of PARA[1] and Johnny
| Decimal.[2]
|
| Obsidian is another tool; it just happens to be one hell of a
| good tool.
|
| 1. https://fortelabs.com/blog/para/
|
| 2. https://johnnydecimal.com
| Simboo wrote:
| 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 get lots of
| pdf's and such so it's all in one place.
|
| Cool, end of speech. Peace out
| KPGv2 wrote:
| > This is the best file-explorer GUI ever made hands down.
|
| besides norton commander and its clones
| KPGv2 wrote:
| I use Calibre to maintain my PDFs. I've even got my taxes in
| there, but have been thinking recently that they don't belong
| in a library and probably should just be printed and stored
| with other important things like passports and birth
| certificates.
|
| But every PDF I download, ebook, academic article, it goes in
| Calibre and out of my Downloads path.
| jrm4 wrote:
| I didn't know that Obsidian worked that cleanly; I occasionally
| flirt with it but have been using https://zim-wiki.org for
| about a decade longer, so my muscle memory is there. I keep
| looking for reasons to switch but so far nothing yet has done
| that?
| PurpleRamen wrote:
| Any good filemanager is better. Out of the box, it's also very
| lacking in necessary abilities. There are also some errors
| around the edges, like hiding vault-internal links, which makes
| it a bit questionable for good filehandling.
|
| But sure, when all you have are supported filetypes, then it
| can be useful.
| afcool83 wrote:
| 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(tm)" to stay organized.
| File splattered in the root? Sure. Unresolved links to notes that
| don't exist and probably never will? Why not! Blank daily notes
| that aren't carefully manicured journal tomes? Heck yeah.
|
| His point is "perfect is the enemy of good." You could carefully
| curate and perfect your pkm...or you could have a life.
| MrDarcy wrote:
| Half of my tasks are in my people folder and half my people are
| in my tasks folder and it all works out fine in Obsidian.
| ozlikethewizard wrote:
| I think this is my favourite thing about obsidian, it feels
| so unproscriptive. I have a pretty well thought out folder
| structure because this is how ive always managed my
| documents, but every new note goes in a junkyard folder to
| get sorted if I ever come back to it again. I sometimes use
| backlinks, but this is generally localised within project
| folders. I enjoy seeing everyone elses equally chaotic way of
| using it.
| kelvinjps10 wrote:
| I feel like organization it's not as important now with search
| in computers. Like you can search anything also there is tags.
| PurpleRamen wrote:
| 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.
| infecto wrote:
| 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.
| PurpleRamen wrote:
| > 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?
|
| Maybe if you are Google, having well paid teams and
| excessive data on what people with your profile are
| usually searching at the moment. Obsidian is lacking all
| this, so the search-quality is very depending on the
| amount of files and results.
| afcool83 wrote:
| The basic search one gets out of the box is closer to
| regex matching than search. IMHO something like
| omnisearch should be sherlocked next.
| kepano wrote:
| _How_ I use Obsidian
| afcool83 wrote:
| It's a truly remarkable app you and team have built. I'm going
| to use the term _simple_ but please understand that that's high
| praise.
|
| To me, obsidian is a thought-taking app, not a notetaking app.
| Thoughts are amorphous and incomplete no matter how much you
| embellish them. They don't belong in only one place with only
| one label or pinned to only one date. They reach out to each
| other. Merge and split. They sit inside each other sometimes.
|
| Obsidian gets that. It offers _just enough_ structure and
| automation and operating system (of a kind) to force the binary
| file system on some silicon to work like our brains do...and
| not the other way around.
| FergusArgyll wrote:
| Hacker news strips 'how' from the beginning of submission
| titles. It can be readded (and seems like it was)
| KPGv2 wrote:
| ever since I first heard about Obsidian, the vibe I get is that
| it's a solution in search of a problem. Every use case I get
| pitched, there's a better solution, or it's a "problem" that
| doesn't need to be solved.
|
| If you aren't a researcher in a field, why do you need personal
| knowledge management? Even when I learn a subject, I find
| just...taking a flat note file to be way better than all these
| Zettelkasten stuffs. It all feels very pomodoro to me. It is
| useful for some people, but influencers have hyped it up into the
| Grand Unified Solution.
|
| Same with mind mapping. I don't see the benefit. Maybe being
| AuDHD has something to do with it? Like...if it's an area I want
| more expertise, I'm already hyperfocused on it and remember
| everything. If I don't want expertise, I don't need PKM. I keep
| _trying_ to use them, but it feels superfluous. Like I never have
| to refer back to it.
| rjh29 wrote:
| It's literally just a folder of markdown notes with a handy
| search and file list if that's what you want it to be. That's
| all I use it for. I think the hyper-organisation stuff is more
| of a hobby. It's not about productivity it's enjoyable for its
| own ends.
| tonyarkles wrote:
| > Maybe being AuDHD has something to do with it
|
| I used to live my entire life in emacs org-mode. My memory is
| shit, if I don't have a reminder of a task I need to do it
| probably won't get done. If someone asks me "hey, do you
| remember that thing we talked about in that meeting last week?"
| the answer will be "no, not at all". If I go "damn, what was
| that recipe for those pork chops I made last month that were
| really good?" I will draw a complete blank about what even made
| them special, but I'll be disappointed because they were good.
|
| I miss org-mode but as my life became more mobile-phone-
| centric, it stopped working for me. I ultimately ended up
| replacing it with two things: Todoist for task management and
| Obsidian for notetaking.
|
| Maybe the difference is that I use Obsidian for basically two
| things: keeping track of things that _have_ happened (meeting
| notes, design decisions, debug sessions) and for things that
| are a work in progress (software projects at work and for fun,
| home renovation plans, things that temporally are going to
| evaporate from my brain before they're done). It's a tool that
| lets me remember what I was talking to people about last week,
| and a tool for picking up the project I was working on last
| month. And it syncs great to my phone and iPad Pro for when I'm
| out of the house.
|
| I haven't ever gotten to appreciate Obsidian's task management
| stuff but Todoist tickles my brain just right for that.
| daheza wrote:
| For me as a engineering manager
|
| I keep a weekly folder where I toss notes in My todo list
| exists here my performance log for employees
| brcmthrowaway wrote:
| How does it compare to notion
| shminge wrote:
| offline first, so much faster, no terrible pricing model.
| Hugely better in my opinion
| jdejean wrote:
| No databases, views, nested pages, automations, or
| collaboration. It's a flat list of files with folders. You can
| supplement these features with plugins but it's not the same.
| Notion is objectively more powerful but if you care about data
| ownership or minimalism you might prefer Obsidian
| kepano wrote:
| Views were added in Obsidian 1.9 (Aug 2025)
|
| https://help.obsidian.md/bases
|
| Collaboration was added in Obsidian 0.14 (May 2022)
|
| https://help.obsidian.md/sync/collaborate
| rickcarlino wrote:
| Since it is just markdown files and a tiny bit of JSON meta data,
| it's trivial to use Obsidian as the GUI for a static site
| generator. I have some thin ruby scripts that compile my notebook
| to HTML and upload to my blog via SSH. I removed my previous
| static site generator library and just use simple markdown
| rendering libs now. https://rickcarlino.com/notes/
| gbraad wrote:
| I use Obsidian, but would never use someone else's Vault
| template; as these are script files, you neverknow what can be in
| there without reviewing this. Just a friendly reminder to be
| cautious
| DauntingPear7 wrote:
| This guy is the CEO of obsidian so I would trust him imo
| laurieg wrote:
| People who do lots of work and ship lots of projects tend to have
| a certain level of mess in their workshops. Creation is repeated
| cycles of trial, play, reflection and tidying.
|
| For anyone thinking about trying out Obsidian, here are some
| problems I have solved with it:
|
| - Remembering where I met someone, what we talked about and then
| connecting up with them at a later date. My ability to remember
| names is easily 10x because of obsidian.
|
| - Seeing who in my family's birthday is coming up soon and their
| address so I can send them a card.
|
| - Graphing how far I've run for each day/week and any quick
| training notes.
|
| - Showing me friend's restaurant suggestions on a map when I've
| got a free evening and I want to try something new.
|
| And all of this stored locally and synced onto many devices.
|
| If you're curious I highly recommend starting simple. Don't worry
| about plugins, just write a quick daily note every day about the
| information that is important to you. When you feel like you're
| outgrowing that, adopt a structure that fits you and solves your
| problems.
| Dr_Birdbrain wrote:
| How do you use it to remember names?
| timwis wrote:
| Not the OP, but I've got a "Names to remember" evergreen note
| in my Reference folder. Within it, I have a few headings
| (e.g. neighbours, or locations), and a bullet point for each
| person, with context that will trigger the memory. That might
| sound like there's a lot of structure, but it's really the
| act of writing it down in the first place that helps me
| remember.
| acidburnNSA wrote:
| It'd be cool to write a little script that dumps them out
| into an Anki deck for spaced repetition.
| dns_snek wrote:
| There's plugins for that:
| https://obsidian.md/plugins?search=anki
| ozlikethewizard wrote:
| I use Obsidian for the same purpose as the sister comment. I
| have a long old note where I add the name and a minor info
| for new acquaintances. Mine is charavterised by the
| environment of acquaintance, i.e Work/Town/Rave/Hobby/Online.
| Rarely need to refer back once ive written down.
| NatKarmios wrote:
| I have stub notes for people I've met, and link to them in
| the journal section of my daily note when I've met them; I
| can then check the backlinks on that person's note when I
| want to check where I've seen them before.
| dzjkb wrote:
| how do you do graphing/maps? I'm guessing it's some plugins?
| bpavuk wrote:
| if you mean "graphs" as in "plots", you can just use
| matplotlib with some Markdown parser. the Templates plugin
| (built-in) helps maintaining cohesive structure that helps
| both parsing and human comprehension.
|
| for maps, there is an Obsidian Maps plugin. recent addition,
| built-in as well. I personally don't use it much, but I know
| the kind of person who would be very happy about it!
|
| and then there is an up-and-coming Obsidian CLI, which is in
| paid beta. the license is cheap, around $25 for forever
| access to current and future betas, but it's optional.
| phito wrote:
| I've been using obsidian for about 3 years now and the only
| thing I've used are daily notes. I'm unsure where I should go
| from that.
| codazoda wrote:
| Love it. I try to follow an absolutely minimal process. Even more
| minimal than this.
|
| I even built my own "second brain" tool to make my own writing
| absolutely frictionless.
|
| A dump of all files in one folder is the only thing that keeps me
| sane. I do not want to sort.
| fred_tandemai wrote:
| Curious how people here are using obsidian when taking notes
| during meetings in the context of AI note taker. I find myself
| incapable of using features like links as I'm interacting with
| say a client. I've found AI note takers to be really powerful to
| help free my mind during meetings though.
| Brajeshwar wrote:
| Either someone or I, of course, turn on a Note Taker that can
| transcribe the meeting notes. That file can go into Obsidian.
|
| Unfortunately, most people don't refer back to it and would
| wait for someone to do it as part of the spec or project tasks
| assigned by the Project Manager.
|
| However, I love taking notes in meetings using graphs, arrows,
| boxes with text, etc. Sometimes, I use an iPad with the Pencil,
| but I prefer a pen on Paper. This one is usually the one that
| gets shared, and people seem to like it for understanding the
| context or for referring back to what they heard during
| meetings in a simpler, yet faster/easier way.
|
| My methods are inspired by Dan Roam's Books. I browse/re-read
| the books pretty often. https://www.danroam.comhe
| for_i_in_range wrote:
| I use yellow legal pads and 4x6" notecards... and probably ship
| more substantive writing than 96% of people on the planet.
| backscratches wrote:
| The 4% that are more substantive writers than you dont waste
| their time with complex industrial technology like note pads
| and flashcards. The weakness stemming from your addiction to
| modern tools shows even in your short comment.
| borh375 wrote:
| 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 files.
|
| I do care about how files are stored, felt trapped with OneNote
| proprietary format, and seeing what happens to Evernote, now care
| even more.
|
| More recently, Andrej Karparthy succinctly captured what's great
| about Obsidian: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1761467904737067456
|
| And with the new LLM powered, I find having tight control over
| files to be extremely powerful
|
| Thank you kepano!
| mold_aid wrote:
| >And with the new LLM powered
|
| The what now? Did I miss an update
| borh375 wrote:
| Missed a word: LLM powered tools (CLIs, etc.) that can work
| over files easily. Nothing in Obsidian itself, though I'm
| sure some nice plugins will exist
| kcaseg wrote:
| I tried Obsidian a couple of years ago when all those ,,Hack your
| brain with Obsidian" videos were flooding YouTube, I even had a
| subscription.
|
| Turns out my brain is beyond saving, while the program was pretty
| neat, having to have an extra window open was just beyond my
| attention span. Now I use a notebook, it is chaotic and has
| coffee strains but I actually use it.
| pmarreck wrote:
| FYI, firing up Claude Code or Codex inside your Obsidian repo
| location is a game-changer
| swah wrote:
| Can you expand on your usage this way? Still haven't picked on
| that.
| pmarreck wrote:
| Well, it has helped me reorganize my notes and add
| appropriate links based on context (which AI is good at, of
| course) since I tend to still use it like a glorified notepad
| (which it's also good at, but really doesn't take much
| advantage of it)
|
| You can also use it to ask questions like "which of my
| business ideas might have legs?"
| elcapitan wrote:
| 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 perspectives from people
| with different problems and how they use it for those cases.
| ozlikethewizard wrote:
| I manage project documentation for work + personal projects
| using it. So I tend to have one folder per project with very
| little linking across folders. Then I have a personal folder
| that contains all non work stuff with varying degrees of
| structure, then a junkyard folder on the root where new notes
| that dont currently have an obvious category go, and if i come
| back to them they get sorted.
| mold_aid wrote:
| 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.
| Dumblydorr wrote:
| 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
| schainks wrote:
| Having tried different systems since the days of Evernote, the
| _only_ thing that is consistently useful like obsidian is...
| emailing myself whatever info I have to look up later. I even
| used to do this for reminders.
|
| Google search in Gmail continues to just work.
|
| But also I want something better than email, so I've been a happy
| obsidian user for a while now.
| krypttt wrote:
| I tried Notion, Obsidian, and various other note taking tools
| before I came to accept that I am simply not a note taking
| person. I just don't see the value in it I suppose.
| swah wrote:
| More like a remembering things person? I envy that!
| roflchoppa wrote:
| I ended up copying Steph's layouts, I added some Github actions
| that pipe out files that have specific tags in them and create
| blog posts in another repo. It works very well for me.
| kkfx wrote:
| I use Emacs/org-mode to do the same and much more, without tying
| myself to specific third parties, but the point remains valid and
| largely ignored by most until recently: the heart of our
| information is plain text with potential binary attachments, and
| managing it as freely as possible, with search&narrow access and
| the ability to turn it into hypertext, to compute inside text etc
| is essential to "unlocking" or truly harnessing the power of the
| desktop computing. This model of personal computing has been
| denied for ages due to commercial interests in selling countless
| walled gardens that do only one thing, "UNIX-style", but without
| the IPC of the Unix CLI.
| jpfromlondon wrote:
| The PKM pipeline is :
|
| Discovering PM solutions upon entering the workforce and deciding
| to use them for your personal life.
|
| Shortcomings drive you to discover PKM software like Notion and
| Obsidian.
|
| Picking either one or the other.
|
| Switching from Notion to Obsidian or vice versa.
|
| Starting to write your own PKM.
|
| There is no class of software more entropic because everyone's
| requirements are so specific to the individual.
| conception wrote:
| Only todo/task apps have the same churn.
| jpfromlondon wrote:
| Good point, I overlooked this because the overlap is huge.
| keybored wrote:
| My PKM is writing in Org Mode and never using any Org Mode
| features to look things up.
| Dumblydorr wrote:
| I use the app for two things mainly: DnD DMing and sheet music. I
| think it's deep but I mostly just make canvases and copy paste in
| images and then move those around to a useful shape. I put in
| tables, text, images, and all on canvases. I don't use links
| really, I probably should but I use the known Folder structure to
| get to whichever canvas I'm working on.
| nivcmo wrote:
| The "messy but functional" approach is underrated. I've tried
| every PKM system under the sun - PARA, Zettelkasten, Johnny
| Decimal - and always ended up spending more time organizing than
| doing.
|
| The breakthrough was realizing that capture friction matters more
| than organization. If you have to think about where to put a
| note, you won't capture it.
|
| Now I dump everything in daily notes and let search + backlinks
| surface connections. The "junkyard folder" approach works because
| it removes the decision paralysis.
|
| (Still haven't solved the "remember to actually check my notes"
| problem though. That's where automation helps - birthday
| reminders, follow-up prompts, etc. The real win is when your
| system bugs you, not the other way around.)
| seivan wrote:
| 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.
| true_religion wrote:
| Well, it has a bunch of plugins for making your notes folder
| into a database, or cataloguing meta data, or adding graphs,
| spreadsheets, mind maps, or flow charts, but I don't really
| use any of those.
|
| The only thing I use is the Mathjax plug-in for keeping notes
| about interesting publications.
|
| Aside from its plugins, Obsidian is a great markdown editor
| and has a folder view and search integrated. I like it for
| that. My alternative is Apple notes, but long notes are hard
| to read there, so having markdown view is a positive
| experience.
| phito wrote:
| I feel like the only reason I use Obsidian is because of the
| "real time" markdown editor. If I could have this in Zed (not
| split view between source and render) I would probably not
| used Obsidian anymore.
| stanpinte wrote:
| The integration of notes and tasks - that's unbeatable. While
| I journal stuff during the day adding tasks is one macro
| away, and these task can then be searched easily. Your
| journaling becomes a database of stuff to do.
| kmacleod wrote:
| If your editor has a wiki mode (like Emacs' org mode) then
| maybe nothing. If not, then Obsidian is your browser and your
| editor is your editor. For example, git syncing between
| Android and desktop isn't working well for me, so I edit
| directly in github UI and browse in Obsidian. The fact that
| Obsidian works exactly like that is one of the biggest
| benefits of Obsidian.
| olav wrote:
| > 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.
| risingsubmarine wrote:
| Many thanks to Obsidian for reinforcing the strength of file-
| over-apps in daily computer use. Consider this as a baseline for
| your entire setup, and you will spend much less energy fussing
| over finding the optimal programs, operating systems, or
| ecosystems. Just manage your files, and everything else can come
| and go.
| gverrilla wrote:
| When obsidian can allow for a dynalist-style configuration,
| please tell me.
| evo_9 wrote:
| I've been using Cursor / Claude Code to open my Vault folder, or
| a sub-folder in the vault; since Obsidian is stored in .MD files
| you can chat with your LLM about whatever info is in there. I
| used this to review and prepare for interviews, and it was
| extremely effective in helping me land my new job.
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