But instead of cramming detailed information for each of the stones, I created a separate note dedicated to each stone with all the information I got from my research. In the “Purple Stones” note, I made a list of all the purple stones that caught my eye with a short description of each of them. So I created a note titled “Purple Stones” to keep track of my research. A few days ago, I had been diving deep into purple coloured stones because they look really cool. It’s a topic which is interesting to me and also a cool idea that I might revisit and explore in the future. So I created a note for it and put the appropriate tags for it in the frontmatter. For example, recently I had a very cool idea to sell canned carbonated sugarcane juice, which I’m not sure will taste good by the way. To group notes by particular topics, I use tags. Whenever I need to make a new note, I just create the file in the root. How I Take NotesĪll notes live in the root of my Obsidian vault. It also doesn’t store notes in a weird Obsidian specific format, it’s just standard Markdown! It allows you to own and control your data. Notes are saved in a local folder and never go to a database. With thousands of plugins available, it gives you tools to do pretty much anything.īut where Obsidian really won me over is privacy. My favourite part is that it supports vim keybindings in the editor! It also features a nice command palette in which all the commands can be triggered by hotkeys as well. Obsidian has an elegant user interface with an one of the best if not the best Markdown editors out there which make the note-taking experience smooth and natural. You can link to other notes using standard Markdown syntax and also group notes by topic using sub-folders or tags. It’s just notes in Markdown, stored in a folder, called “Vault” in Obsidian. I soon realised the simplicity of Obsidian. So I had rejected the app back then.įast forward a few months and I saw Obsidian gaining popularity again on Twitter and Discord, so I decided to give it another try, only this time, I read the docs instead of videos. Almost all videos of Obsidian on YouTube were like that. As I mentioned in the intro, I had used it previously in a very complex and overwhelming setup for a week which just didn’t feel right. Obsidian is my choice of app for note taking. So here are my apps of choice and how I use them. Has to have good NLP (Natural Language Processing) for dates Also should sync across all devices Tasks app: Should be easy to quickly add tasks.Also needs to have good NLP for dates and sync with my phone’s calendar widget. Calendar app: Creating and editing events should be fast.Note taking app: Has to have backlinks and a simple way to organise notes by topics.They fall into the trap of constantly looking for the perfect app and the perfect setup, always trying to optimise their workflow when they’re actually just wasting their time without actually focusing on what’s important: getting stuff done. In my opinion, people watch these second brain and personal knowledge management setup videos and think it’s the holy grail of productivity. I actually rejected Obsidian once because I found it really overwhelming after watching a YouTube video setting it up so extensively, reminiscent to configuring Emacs. This is not going to be one of complex setups that you often see productivity influencers making videos and courses about. But nothing quite hit the mark until recently. I have explored numerous apps, and “productivity setups”, searching for that seamless integration that could bring a sense of order to my chaotic mind and life. Over the last few months, I’ve set out to really get my life sorted and organised so I can manage my time and thoughts better.
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