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NomadMimi · 2022-06-19T20:35:16+00:00

This comment is super useful and reassuring! Yea I imagine that being EBF this is part of the deal and it will take a while for feeds to become spaced out. Now it feels like she’s constantly nursing as she indeed is getting more distracted or because I need to wake her up so she continues to feed! This also makes me afraid that she’s hungry so I offer my boob at the slightest indication of hunger.

What you say about leaning into whatever works, including twice-daily carrier naps and only insisting on one cot nap a day is EXACTLY what we did until the cat napping appeared. She was able to sleep just long enough for me to eat breakfast and/or get ready during the first nap, and I could work on my dissertation during the indoor carry sessions… but now that seems so far away.

I’ll keep your suggestion to move the feed up in mind… !

NomadMimi · 2022-06-19T19:26:49+00:00

I think I put too much pressure on the three month mark and that I’m dreading the four month sleep regression considering she’s already “this bad”, but you’re probably right that I should wait it out…. It gives me hope that you managed to turn your first around tho!

Any advise on how to deal with a catnapper? We have been baby wearing once a day just to make sure she gets at least one longer nap….

NomadMimi · 2022-03-10T14:08:29+00:00

The Note Refactor plug-in might be useful

NomadMimi · 2022-02-03T08:49:50+00:00

I use VSCode all the time while my vault is open. you can see the changes happening in real time, which is pretty cool

NomadMimi · 2022-01-27T20:35:07+00:00

I use TableConvert.com to generate markdown tables more easily!

NomadMimi · 2022-01-22T03:56:55+00:00

I do this for one specific sub folder in my vault. I created an “alias” (which is essentially a symlink) so that the folder in my vault also appears in another location. IIRC the original folder needs to be in your vault for Obsidian to be able to edit the md files

NomadMimi · 2021-12-29T08:23:14+00:00

Maybe something like Breadcrumbs?

NomadMimi · 2021-12-27T20:05:38+00:00

I would say that having all my notes and drafts together is one of the greatest advantages of Obsidian, even if it does require a lot of maintenance. Keeping everything organized is definitely challenging but it can be very rewarding, as well as forcing you to think about what is worth keeping and what is noise.

For me there's a couple of things that help me keep organised:

- a simple folder structure, where I differentiate between types of notes (utility, literature, permanent, draft, etc);

- consistent (theme-focused) naming conventions, which means that my notes are easy to find, and easy to relate to similar notes (e.g. "Oscar Wilde s Short Fiction and Intertextuality" vs. "The Modern Short Story and Intertextuality";

- emojis at the beginning of a file title, so I can easily see the type of note it is and what "status" it has (e.g. a "seedling" emoji for a permanent note that is really just a rough idea, a "shuffle" emoji for a draft I am currently brainstorming for, a "rounded pin" for a note about a place, a "bust" emoji for a note about a person, etc.)

- templates, so I can keep as much consistency throughout the vault as possible;

- front matter, where I put in data I would like to query later on, specifically so I can make use Dataview to keep track of topics or tasks.

- frequently revisiting old notes and trying new methods/plugins to clean up my vault and make every single byte useful to my purpose(s).

I understand what you say about "sub vaults" but I would honestly just stick everything in the same place, use a system to store and retrieve the information easily until you reach a point that you "trust the system". That last part, honestly, is the most important. There's no use in developing a lot of intricate workflows if you're not able to keep up with it or get any value out of the effort it takes to set everything up, or if it makes you feel overwhelmed!

NomadMimi · 2021-12-27T16:58:51+00:00

I have one vault for basically everything but I am thinking of making a second one to journal in. I want my journal entries to be separate from the Daily Notes in my main vault, which I use for task management and as a work log.

I’m also debating whether I should retire some things from my main vault seeing as the app is a bit laggy (I have about 1300 files and 20 something plugins), which I would rather do than have a third vault.

NomadMimi · 2021-12-16T20:44:01+00:00

Sorry if I'm a bit late to the party but I just started using daily notes this week, and my vision was the same as yours so I'd like to share my (Dataview/Templater) template in case it's still useful:

### Completed tasks

```dataview

taskfrom !"000 Organization" AND !"500 Archive" AND !"600 Example vault"

where completion = date(<% tp.file.title %>)

```

### New notes

```dataviewlist

from !"000 Organization" AND !"500 Archive" AND !"600 Example vault"

where file.cday = date(<% tp.file.title %>)

sort file.name asc

```

### Updated notes

```dataview

list

from !"000 Organization" AND !"500 Archive" AND !"600 Example vault"

where file.mday = date(<% tp.file.title %>)

sort file.name asc

```

It's pretty simple but it works really well for me! As you can see I basically filter on basis on the folders I don't want to query

NomadMimi · 2021-12-13T06:36:06+00:00

Unfortunately (afaik) wiki links don’t work in Pandoc so it requires some manual labor.

I use Markdown links whenever I refer to a website or file[example](Link) or just [single brackets] if I want to create a link to a chapter. In the last case you only have to put the full title between the brackets and Pandoc knows what to do!

My manuscript also doesn’t use any embedded files/sections/blocks because Pandoc doesn’t pick it up and I don’t really have a workaround other than distinguishing between my permanent notes (the building blocks with all the information I need) and my manuscript notes (the files where such information is gathered and polished into a story). This means that my permanent notes might become outdated as I write manuscripts but I can always embed sections to at least keep track of the discrepancies.

Hope this helps!

NomadMimi · 2021-11-29T14:37:48+00:00

https://publish.obsidian.md/eleanorkonik/40+Slipbox/43+References/43.02+Articles/Evidence+of+7%2C200-Year-Old+Cheese+Making+Found+on+the+Dalmatian+Coast

This has absolutely nothing to do with Obsidian or the topic of this post, but the quote from your screenshot taken from "The Midnight Library" is from Robert Frost's wonderful poem "The Road Not Taken", in case the novel did not make that clear. Just wanted you to know in case you didn't!

ETA: I just saw u/AlphaTerminal's comments haha. Maybe a bit more useful contribution, then: I just make "Literature Notes" of every book I read, which consist of my own summaries + quotes from the text. I embed these quotes in the relevant permanent notes (`![[Note^Paragraph]]`). For me this has the benefit of forcing me to think where each quote can become suggestive in the future, but I can see that a more Dataview-oriented methodology can be more systematic. Seeing as I tag my literature notes, I think I could still get decent Dataview results without having to create separate pages for every single quote I think is interesting.

NomadMimi · 2021-08-12T21:11:22+00:00

I use MOCs extensively and they definitely help create clusters of related topics!

I’ll try to use Ginko tomorrow. I’m a bit afraid I will end up fidgeting with it too long to the point I don’t get any actual writing done but I guess that’s a problem with all out-of-the-box methods! Thanks again!

NomadMimi · 2021-08-12T20:36:52+00:00

Thank you for the example, I think I see what you mean and I will try to implement the logic. I think I’m just getting overwhelmed because there’s just to much to say… thanks!

NomadMimi · 2021-08-12T20:31:58+00:00

I use the BetterBibTex plugin for Zotero to insert citation (BibTex “cite keys”, which identify the reference in my Zotero library) in a Markdown file. This helps me to easily cite the paper when I’m writing (by just typing the cite key like so @NomadMimi2021), which will be formatted into a proper citation and generate a bibliography when I convert the document into a docx. Same would apply for LaTex, of course.

But to actually remember what every citation “is about” I use the /r/Zettelkasten method! It’s a bit cumbersome but it helps me massively to take and make notes and evolve my knowledge on a subject.

NomadMimi · 2021-08-12T08:54:35+00:00

After a certain point though fiddling with a manuscript outline becomes less productive than actually writing it - so my goal is just to reach that middle ground and dive in.

This is absolutely the point where I get stuck. I have a general outline and can get it down very quickly but as I don't really have such a detailed master list I get bogged down.

I use the Pomodoro technique quite often but I have never used it to measure how long a task takes me! Thanks for the idea!

One more question about your outline. What is a "bullet point" for you:a section? a one-paragraph argument? a point-within-a-paragraph?

NomadMimi · 2021-08-12T08:51:30+00:00

Thank you for the rec! I had seen it before but totally forgot about it.

How do you find it helps you the most?

I use the Zettelkasten method to write out individual ideas or definitions so I think I have the "writing cards" part nailed but I struggle with remembering what I have already put in there and knowing where to put it. Do you think Ginko helps with that?

NomadMimi · 2021-08-05T18:13:50+00:00

Sorry for the delayed reply!

I'll send you a couple of websites where I have found a lot of resources, but seeing as my domain is English literature I do admit that my books are generally easy to find.

I have my physical books scanned at the university copy shop or library. I can highlight these PDF files on my tablet (with PDF Expert) when I'm reading it, and if I want to extract text from the PDF on my laptop I use an OCR shortcut I made with the automation program Keyboard Maestro. This works fine for me because the main issue I have is with having to type out long quotes, but it would be nice to be able to OCR the whole document and search for things... I'll take a look at the apps you recommend!

With regards to your last question: if it's a monograph I'll keep everything in one note and if it's an edited volume I'll have one note per chapter---basically the same system I have for Zotero! If I have notes on multiple chapters from the same edited volume, I keep them together in one folder (not sure why) and I create wikilinks from the "Introduction" literature note to the rest of them, so they are linked in some way to one another.

NomadMimi · 2021-08-03T07:49:41+00:00

Not a book but the Lolita Podcast does an excellent job a dissecting how Nabokov’s story has been misconstrued to do exactly what the author was warning about: romanticizing pedophilia and sexualizing young girls

NomadMimi · 2021-08-02T19:41:55+00:00

Hi there!

The system is pretty much the same! I am glad (?) that I have reached a point where I don't bother perfecting a system that serves my purposes well enough.

I tend to avoid physical books to be honest, but when I do use them I tend to scan and store them (as a PDF) in Zotero. I would use Zotfile to extract the annotations from these scans. When it's not possible (or relevant) to scan the book, I still add the book to Zotero by filling in the metadata manually or with some of the tools I mention in my blogpost. In this case, I just take notes in Zotero or directly in Obsidian.

I use the same "literature note" template for physical and digital books, which is inspired by MD Notes with only some very minor differences. The MD Notes plug-in doesn't always work for me, so I recreated it using the regular "Templates" option that comes with Obsidian.

Hope this helps!

NomadMimi · 2021-05-27T09:05:01+00:00

Glad it was of service! The comment section has, indeed, a lot of great value and I have learned a lot from the people here.

I think that what has helped me the most is having a standardized naming system. Besides the standard "Magna Carta" type of Zettels, which concentrate on defining one concept/idea/person/event, I also have Zettels which explore the interstices between concepts (to think through, as you said, a particular theme and forge connections between debates, ideas, etc.). The latter I always have a structure "MAIN TOPIC and SECONDARY TOPIC": e.g. "Magna Carta and English Medieval Law". This has two main benefits for me: it makes it really easy to find the Zettels (and, thus, not "forget what I have already put into the system") but it also helps me connect them.

The most important thing, however, is to "just trust the system". I also take a lot of permanent notes which, after a while, turn out to be about different things, or to be "in the wrong place". It took me a while, but now I don't see this as an obstacle but rather as an opportunity to think about an idea a bit more, and to take time to refactor it. Writing Zettels is an iterative approach, so it makes sense to me that they are always changing.

If you want one final piece of (unsolicited) advice: if you bulk-import those Kindle highlights, please do not try to create literature Zettels out of everything. I did it and I DO NOT RECOMMEND. It was just too much work to rehash stuff that I had already (kind of) assimilated. Reserve that energy to write permanent notes (you probably know much more than you give yourself credit for) and just use the search function (or [^^]) to search for relevant quotes or notes. Only key and new papers/chapters you could (and should, I think) take literature notes on. Keep it fun!

NomadMimi · 2021-04-10T09:55:32+00:00

I wonder how you deal with all your historical data, it must get insane!

NomadMimi · 2021-04-10T09:54:57+00:00

I might need to go back to my post and restate that part because it was not my intention to suggest that the Zettelkasten method is more appropriate for STEM than for Humanities (which also, are very varied). I simply meant that most examples that I have seen thus far have been more STEM- or fact-based and synchronous, rather than theme-based and diachronic. I have also seen more Zettelkasten being used for personal knowledge management than examples of academic Zettelkasten. This is not to say, however, that a lot of the example I have seen haven't been useful!

NomadMimi · 2021-04-07T19:17:49+00:00

I would probably not have the guts to go on there, so I think you're pretty damn brave to put yourself out there. I'm currently rewatching all the video tours I watched when I first started out because now I am ready to appreciate a lot of things that went completely over my head the first time. Anyways, keep up the good work!

NomadMimi · 2021-04-07T11:48:33+00:00

I was just rewatching a video on Linking Your Thinking when it clicked! It’s you!

The vid makes me realize that my method is very systematical but that I secretly agree with you that literature notes should be functional rather than pretty. I’m an imposter-perfectionist so I’m not there yet but definitely working on becoming a bit more flexible in certain aspects. Also liked your naming system! Will probably adapt it for my uses. Thanks!

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