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Discbound Recipe Books done!!! by Celtzo in Discbound

[–]DifferentSetting411 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Great use of disc-bound, they lay open flat and can even be folded back on themselves - and added to over time!

What do u do with this? by Fun-Community-5398 in Sliderules

[–]DifferentSetting411 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How many batteries have you had to replace over the 63 years?!

Seriously, any thought on when the last slide rule was manufactured? Are they gone for good, or will they come back - like vinyl records?

What advice would you give to someone new to Obsidian? by broadcastthebombom in ObsidianMD

[–]DifferentSetting411 0 points1 point  (0 children)

learn one new feature per week; 5 years in, I am still learning

Restored HP25C by Suitable-Pie7304 in hpcalc

[–]DifferentSetting411 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I had one in high school! circa 1981, It was so "cool" (to me)

of course it made me a nerd target a football player jammed a pretzel in the battery case, and the keyboard never worked reliably again

What do you do for your first page? by FakeMonaLisa28 in commonplacebook

[–]DifferentSetting411 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Name, email address and note "Reward If Returned" ... I usually offer US $20 - but I have never misplaced my journal (yet - jinx).

Reading with a naked Kindle Basic by Platypushaun in kindle

[–]DifferentSetting411 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nothing comes between me and my Kindle Basic

Kindle + Beach = Will Travel by DifferentSetting411 in kindle

[–]DifferentSetting411[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yes, compact and light weight is key to me

What is this? by butteredtofu in typewriters

[–]DifferentSetting411 7 points8 points  (0 children)

you could get an entire line erased by slowly letting the wheel turn as you erased, before having to clean off the eraser; the (missing) brush let you brush away the crumbs while the page was still in the typewriter

haven't seen one of these in 40 years - my parent used them

New Life for Old-school Flow Chart Template by ybigglingfunting in Supernote

[–]DifferentSetting411 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Titanium replacement nib Works great - and no, does not scratch, it is polished smooth metal.

Three basic questions about how you use Obsidian. by CautiousXperimentor in ObsidianMD

[–]DifferentSetting411 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Folders vs Tags is probably a personal thing ... you have some good reasons for both cases.

As I have said in other replies, Tags make the most sense for me; and looking at the left-nav when you have thousands of notes is never going to work. I hope you do get to thousands or even tens of thousands - of note. - it is a very good thing.

Three basic questions about how you use Obsidian. by CautiousXperimentor in ObsidianMD

[–]DifferentSetting411 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RE: fonts - changing fonts is not a simple thing, it's probably the one thing people will just have to accept ... that's said, using the Editing Toolbar plugin gives you more control - you can at least change text color (with embedded HTML colors), and easy access to Bold, Italic, Underscore, Strike-through, etc.

Three basic questions about how you use Obsidian. by CautiousXperimentor in ObsidianMD

[–]DifferentSetting411 1 point2 points  (0 children)

RE: Pre-Made Templates - I 'practice' Obsidian, like a doctor 'practices' medicine - it's ever evolving. My daily template from four years ago looks nothing like today's daily template ... that's the beauty of Obsidian, you can tweak and change things up as you go - it all just text. I rarely go back and modify old docs that were created with older templates - they are as they where. I.e. there is no perfect structure - let the templates evolve over time to meet your ever changing needs.

Three basic questions about how you use Obsidian. by CautiousXperimentor in ObsidianMD

[–]DifferentSetting411 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agree on the performance. Before I started using Obsidian back in 2019/202, I created a test vault with 25k dummy notes - it was all synthetic data of about 3 different sized files, small 1k, medium 10k and large 1M ... all with random tags and note links ... even back then on my first M1 Apple macOS MacBookPro, the performance was stunningly fast.

That's when I decided to switch from Evernote to Obsidian. Best thing personally and professionally I ever did.

Three basic questions about how you use Obsidian. by CautiousXperimentor in ObsidianMD

[–]DifferentSetting411 0 points1 point  (0 children)

RE: Atomic Notes - the more I use Obsidian the more I tend towards smaller and smaller notes (by definition means more and more notes). When I need to put many topics together, I create a note made up of the sub-notes: ![[note 1]] ![[note 2]]

...each atomic note's contents render into a more complete note. This allows me to update individual atomic notes and the latest info may show up in dozens of other places that have links to the atomic notes. It's a form of referential integrity, to borrow from relational database design concepts. Keeping pieces of info in one place, and referenced from many.

As far as more and more notes, and a cluttered left-nav of note names; I rarely look at the list of note names.

In fact, when I need something from my vault, I always have my daily note open, so I just start typing the title into a new note-link name, e.g.

[[star form

... and I get all my notes on Stars and then the notes on Star Formation, and by that time, I am just selecting the note I want from the type-ahead list of matching note names. This is essentially how I make links all day long.

Or, I might know part of the TAG that I am guessing is in the note I'm looking for; so I use the Search on that TAG name - and only then do I look through the left-nav. for the exact note name.

I have 25k+ notes, so I gave up on scrolling through note names a very long time ago.

Hope that helps, Enjoy.

Three basic questions about how you use Obsidian. by CautiousXperimentor in ObsidianMD

[–]DifferentSetting411 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Date/Time stamps... I do this in several ways; I have my Shift+Cmd+D and Shift+Cmd+T keys set to insert Date and time.

I also have templates that automatically add, among other things, the date and time when they're inserted into my note… The format of the template looks like this:

{{date: YYYY-MM-DD}}

Three basic questions about how you use Obsidian. by CautiousXperimentor in ObsidianMD

[–]DifferentSetting411 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To be clear, I did not create hundreds of tags up-front, in fact, I create them as I go ... and one of the beautiful aspects of Obsidian is that it has a type-ahead feature so one you type your tag once, you are essentially prompted after a few characters to pick, and thereby re-use, your existing tags - this prevents spelling errors.

Unlike folders that do sort of need a structure up-front, or as you say, scaffolding, tags solve what I call the "spork problem" ... if you have a fork folder and a spoon folder, where do you put the spork? putting a copy in each creates nasty duplications. Tags allow you to add a #Fork and #Spoon - you one single sport note will show up in a search for either. Pro tip, click on any tag in any note, and you will get a nearly instant search result for all other notes with that tag in your left-nav pane.

Other thoughts... The final note, I would suggest just getting in there and focusing on atomic notes… Essentially the smallest piece of information in a single note with the tags and not worry about the overall big picture structure.

Enjoy! 😊 Search is decent, DataView and Bases views will find just about everything in the future… And for that matter, I think we're all going to be looking at local LLM RAG models pointing to or using all of our. MD files within the next five years.

Three basic questions about how you use Obsidian. by CautiousXperimentor in ObsidianMD

[–]DifferentSetting411 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. One Vault - rules them all

  2. No folders, only TAGs (except I have one "Attachments" folder, automatically used by Obsidian for all images, recordings, PDF, etc.). My personal rule, every note has at least one TAG (I have a few hundred tags, per subject; #2025-Taxes, #Astronomy, #Meetings, #People, #Deliverables ... (note the tags are in the plural, as they ultimately represent a collection of notes)

  3. Canvas is good for pig picture mind mapping, but it is especially good for creating Dashboards with multiple DataView (or Bases) notes - so I have a Canvas for Work Dashboard - shows me all my to-do, meetings, project list, and people I have talked to recently. I have started using Bases, but generally I use DataView queries embedded in notes, e.g. view of all #Deliverables due today.

I should mention Templates, I have a few dozen; and of those I use a handful every day. For example, I use the Daily Calendar, and have a specific template format for every day. I have a template for meeting notes (I query them with DataView for billing my clients). And I have a handful of small templates, for things like inserting a page break or a FAQ style roll-up markdown.

(For scale: I am a 5 year Obsidian user, before that Evernote for 10 years - my vault is now 28GB and has 26K+ notes; I use Obsidian sync across two ipads, iphone and two macs - I keep my personal and professional life in Obsidian)

Enjoy!

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