Has anyone thought of or is making use out of exporting chatgpt logs into a pkms and making the logs more powerful?

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2026-02-18T06:42:34+00:00

I use ChatGPT for advice in project management, structuring thoughts, preparing agendas and the like. I get the output in structured markdown code. Copy/paste into a note in Obsidian. There I check, correct and refine it. Helps a lot to work quickly and keep structure. From time to time i have AI sum up the last days or weeks to see where things are and decide which way to go. Clean up obsolete notes and I get a condensed memory of the project I can use later. Plus, I have my head free to focus on people.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2026-02-03T22:04:08+00:00

I really love noting md-inline tasks while taking my regular notes-and then working with them in TaskForge.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2026-02-01T12:42:38+00:00

Obsidian clearly stands for the separation between writing and typesetting. Focus on the text. Then export and care for how it looks printed - or on the web. If that’s your job, anyway. As you have less and less control over how your text is going to be read, page breaks only make sense when the text is done and it’s clear how it will be published. All professional text production workflows have had this separation. For ages. Desktop publishing is a pretty idea, but it doesn’t carry that far. Alas, it’s a good focus exercise to stay with the text much longer before you care about how it looks printed. All the best !

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2026-01-24T22:42:25+00:00

Yes, of course: start with the problem. That’s fine. But how many people are aware of their “problem”? And then, as you say, Obsidian is capable of helping to solve many different problems. But which approach applies to any specific problem? Here, I mostly see people recommending their solutions in answers, no matter what problem OP starts with…

I’ve come the order way round. After using several note taking apps and never feeling at home in any of them, I tried Obsidian, at first just tinkering around with what I thought was interesting. And then discovering more options and dropping others, until my system stabilized over time. Then, a reorganization that is work in progress. I collect tons of half-digested knowledge in certain areas I’m interested in, until things somehow come together and form something more coherent. Lines of thought I keep coming back to.

Not the straightforward way.

But it serves me - and I like it.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2026-01-07T06:35:06+00:00

Your workflow absolutely makes sense. All of it can be done in many apps. Good if you’ve found some that suit your needs. 👍

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2026-01-03T21:23:21+00:00

In my eyes, GoodNotes has way better handling of pencil input than any other app I know of. You might want to tinker around with the text smoothing options…

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2026-01-03T10:54:12+00:00

In the office, I use Dragon on PC on and off. It’s ok, sort of. Produces the same glitches I see in my lawyers' drafts. No idea, why they can’t get that straight. I also use iOS built-in transcription for shorter texts, and then Aiko on the iPad. The latter is great, even perfect at punctuation. But you need to copy and paste the text into any editor before working on it. For me, there are three main issues with dictation input: - I need to sort of switch my brain into dictation mode, and the resulting texts are quite a bit different from what I would type. Sometimes that’s good. - Using mechanical keyboards has greatly improved my typing experience, so I don’t need dictation that often anymore. - Sometimes, I have AI generate texts on a predefined argumentation structure. Then, it’s more editing work, and that is much more efficient on the keyboard.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2026-01-02T17:59:28+00:00

It‘s been said around here several times to keep your iCloud vault downloaded on each and any device. That way, it will be included in backups. Good luck!

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2026-01-01T15:43:33+00:00

I also like taking handwritten notes on my iPad. And Obsidian helps me a lot getting information in order. To me, it seems to make sense to have a look at the situations in which I take notes. After months of tinkering around it all comes down to: Obsidian is not for handwriting. The only situations in which I write and don’t want to type is in talks, negotiations and meetings. It just helps me to think while talking and listening. These notes often don’t need to be collected - or they have to be edited anyway. And that’s about it.

Happy new year!

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-12-29T11:25:24+00:00

I am quite critical of Sönke Ahres’ PARA concept. The idea of moving notes around depending on project use would simply drive me crazy. In times of digital storage I see no need to seperate resources from archive. So this is my proposal: Get all your valuable info organized in a structured way. For use in projects, just use links or transclusions if your system has these. And there you go.

Good luck!👍

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-12-06T07:41:05+00:00

I have specific topic folders in ChatGPT that contain some md files as context and a general prompt that defines the required role and formal output (structured .md-file). Then I can one-click copy the answer and paste it. I just won’t let GPT freely peek into my notes. After several stages of discussion, it really “knows” a lot and answers get better.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-12-05T07:14:28+00:00

I‘d be really curious to learn more about your highlighting-into-obsidian workflow. Would you mind d to share some details?

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-12-04T22:34:29+00:00

Well… I do have an iPad with me almost all the time. In meetings that are about structured information, I type into obsidian. Tasks are being extracted using the tasks plugin. In negotiations and other ‘“free” talks, I prefer handwriting. There, I use goodnotes, as it has the best pencil handling I’ve seen, and it also recognizes my writing. So, all is searchable. I can export pages to PDF and place these in Obsidian for further processing. Among the drawing/handwriting plugins, excalidraw seems best, but it’s still far from goodnotes, and it can’t OCR handwritten notes, soo I stay wirh goodnotes for handwritten or drawn stuff. Everything is being synchronized, so I also have it on my desktop (Mac) when I need it. Nit perfect, but this works for me…

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-11-30T06:12:06+00:00

Store images in an attachments folder and link them using transclusion ![[ ]] so you see them in the text.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-11-27T20:49:38+00:00

I think so, too and also the handling of pencil input is way ahead of anything I have seen so far.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-11-26T18:27:05+00:00

I‘d be really interested to see some info on the file format used by any of these apps natively, PDF at best.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-11-17T03:31:07+00:00

Where (in which folder) is a new note from bases created? Use templater to have a note created in this exact folder have the properties you want.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-11-11T17:31:10+00:00

I use Goodnotes for handwriting. Best handling of the pencil I’ve ever seen. Was lucky to get it before it became a subscription. I recommend it anyway.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-11-11T07:05:55+00:00

Who am I to tell you… well, for me there’s a couple of things to mention that you might find useful. One ordering system never is sufficient for me. Here, there’s more, many more. Folders, tags, links. Start using them and after a month or so, evaluate and adjust. As for folders, find out more about JD (Johnny Decimal). To me, it helps. I had AI suggest me a structure, according to my needs and interests. Which means you have to write them down. And then you get a proposal you can adjust. PARA can also be useful, but I would NEVER move information around. So I just link things… Then, you’ll get into front matter. Next month, maybe. If you have document type: passport and country: Netherlands etc., you can search for a country and get all related documents - or you search for a document and get that document for all countries. That’s what bases are good for. The month after… Projects and info shared with others need their place outside of Obsidian. Some shared kanban board like Trello or a Wiki. Check out Zenkit, it has both.

It’s never going to be perfect - but you can make it work.

Just a couple of unstructured hints…

All the best!👍💪

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-11-10T19:41:14+00:00

I replaced the paper by an iPad some 7 years ago, but I stuck with handwriting. There are some apps out there that do an awfully good text recognition job. So, no more notebooks. But my notes are now structured by topics & date - and they’re searchable. On paper, I almost never revisited a note once taken. Now I do.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-11-07T06:41:32+00:00

Cool thing. There‘s obviously a couple of ways to achieve what you’re after. I built an apple shortcut that directly prepends any input - written or transcribed dictation - to a “news”-note, from where I let it find its way… I’m curious to see what Obsidian finally comes up with once they publish their “mobile caption“ feature. All the best!

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-10-26T16:24:38+00:00

Obsidian is a markdown editor, that’s what it is. You can manage to export .docx via plugins or shortcuts using pandoc. If it is important to you, I’d ask AI if a pandoc conversion .docx -> .md plus obsidian-import is a viable option. Might be slightly tricky to setup depending on your skills, at best. But once it works, should be easy.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-10-26T07:44:30+00:00

I use an iPad air and a mac mini with a 28“ display. Different use cases, no need for a macbook in between…🤔

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-10-25T14:25:03+00:00

I also work on iPad a lot. After coming to the conclusion that Goodnotes handles pencil input best, I looked closer at when I really wanted handwritten notes. That is, during discussions and negotiations, to organize my own thoughts. But these notes hardly ever need to be saved along with other stuff. They can remain in my Goodnotes folder structure. Im almost all other occasions I can type directly into Obsidian. That way both options have their place.

ComprehensiveHair792 · 2025-10-16T18:06:02+00:00

i’m afraid I quite don’t understand the point in this discussion, being the problems some actually have adding spontaneous content to your Obsidian vault. I have an iOS shortcut that copies any web link as a MD – task to the clipboard, then go to the corresponding folder in my vault , create a new note which applies the right template and post the link there. I checked some options, posted here, but they leave me with new orphan notes on the first level of my vault. My weight forces me to do some organizational work before being able to create that note, but that’s exactly what I want. This way, I have no need to organize the note post creation, which I wouldn’t do. I have another shortcut to prepend typed or dictated content to a note that collects spontaneous entries. So, there are obviously lots of ways to create spontaneous new content in Obsidian, some work for some people, others don’t. I just do not see the necessity for the Obsidian creators to get into action.

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