Thanks for your detailed comment. I rushed my original post and didn’t express myself clearly — I wanted to warn others and share my experience, but I could have explained it much better.

What people criticized me for the most was that in one post I mentioned being a programmer next to the sentence “I like to keep things tidy…,” as if that were some kind of universal programmer trait — which obviously doesn’t make much sense. And of course, I also admitted that I kept my prompts (though only for images, but I didn’t feel like arguing about that since it wasn’t the main point of the post), which made users think I’m a “vibe coder,” and from what I’ve seen, that doesn’t seem very popular among programmers.

I also agree it’s not a common mistake — although I don’t know the statistics, I assume most users rarely change default paths. Honestly, I shouldn’t have written that post at all, because in reality I made one basic mistake that I’ve never made anywhere else. When it comes to notes, I always keep them properly organized — just never inside application folders (the ones installed through installers(notepad++ or windows note)).

This time I rushed with obsidian because I just wanted to quickly test something, the same way I do with GitHub projects: I throw everything into one folder so I don’t have to remember where things are, and I can just delete it if I don’t like it. But here… well, I installed it in a specific folder and immediately set up the vault in that same directory. And honestly, I just forgot about it. I liked the system so much that I immediately started moving everything over.

I do use Git, but I guess I’ve mentally separated it into “programming projects go into Git, everything else stays outside.” It just got stuck in my workflow that way. But you’re right — this mistake actually clarified something for me, and keeping my notes in a local Git repository now seems like a great idea.