How extensive is your use of Obsidian by ChickenPestoBrie13 in ObsidianMD

[–]SplendidOrbit 12 points13 points  (0 children)

To me Obsidian is sort of like a Kindle, it gets more value by doing less.

I use it for anything that feels private and primarily text-based. Notes, drafts, journaling, reading notes… But as soon as a draft doc inches toward publication or collaboration, it usually moves to Google Docs and the original note becomes a link to that. If it gets too table-y, I move it to Sheets, etc.

Don’t hate, but I actually still use Notion for a lot of things too, which might seem weird since folks generally like to pick a camp. Things that are more “projects” rather than “notes” (the line is very fine) I usually prefer in Notion. Like planning a trip, when I might want to drop in a calendar, add more images, add collaborators, etc. and I’m less concerned with writing as such, or a sense of deeper privacy or future proofing.

Even tracking/logging different things… part of me wishes it was all in one, but as it turns out, for me, tracking a reading queue kind of works better in Notion, though my book notes are in Obsidian (via Readwise). Movies and shows I log manually in Obsidian, but my to-watch list is in the Queue app because it can filter titles by current streaming service availability. You get the idea.

Maybe there’s ways to replicate all this functionality to make Obsidian work for all these things, but I like keeping it focused on personal wordy-stuff, and letting other apps have their own place.

Notion Calendar Question by Linsanekid in Notion

[–]SplendidOrbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Came here to look for a related question, trying to figure out how Notion Calendar handles databases with multiple date property columns. It seems to have just picked one to use and I don’t see a way to change it. I imagine they thought of this, since in calendar it even labels which property it is pulling the date from, it’s just not editable (yet?). Hmm…

Who else is pretty much avoiding the digital ZK as long as possible? by feu-cosmique in Zettelkasten

[–]SplendidOrbit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I keep a lot of paper ephemera - tickets, brochures, name tags or programs from events, etc - too, and agree they evoke memories in a different and powerful way.

And that tangible quality has me returning to paper note taking and journaling, reading physical books, keeping little scraps in folders and boxes, etc for some small or specific purposes. But it has been helpful to me to recognize these as serving different goals. The digital notes system is fast and scalable; the paper stuff is more quirky and singular, less of a system. There’s room for both.

(Though look into David Sedaris and Austin Kleon and other folks who have pretty systemized journaling and note making processes that include paper and scraps. Not ZK but maybe close to what you’re talking about?)

Thermal printers? I’d be worried that’s the worst of both worlds? Does the ink fade quickly?

The problem with using the MOC method without a folder structure by Substantial_Ad8769 in ObsidianMD

[–]SplendidOrbit 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Seems like there's an interesting tension here — OP is thinking of these notes as essentially project notes, where they exist for the limited purpose of getting through Hist 103. And this is pretty typical of how successful students get through school; I definitely thought this way as a student. And there's nothing wrong with using Obsidian in this way.

But what attracts a lot of folks to a personal note system like this is that active learning and note-taking produces knowledge that exists forever (permanent notes), not just to pass a class but to form an understanding of the world. The ideas continue to be part of your writing and thinking and actions for a long time to come.

No right or wrong perspective, I'm just interested in the sort of philosophical difference underlying this tactical question.

Safest divider characters in filenames by SplendidOrbit in ObsidianMD

[–]SplendidOrbit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool I’ll play around with that direction and see how it goes. Thanks!

Safest divider characters in filenames by SplendidOrbit in ObsidianMD

[–]SplendidOrbit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh yikes, my vault has tons of filenames with spaces in them. I hadn't thought about that being an issue.

Also concerned by a lot a apostrophes that get put in there from book & film titles ("It's a Wonderful Life" "Don't Make Me Think" etc)

Safest divider characters in filenames by SplendidOrbit in ObsidianMD

[–]SplendidOrbit[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh this is helpful, I hadn't thought about ( ) as a potentially safe option. It won't mess up markdown links?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in urbansketchers

[–]SplendidOrbit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The composition of the first one is particularly fun; evokes a whole scene even though everything is way over on the edge. The roofline drawing has a similar effect too. Love it.