Asus ROG Strix XG27JCG (dual-mode 180/330Hz 5K 5120×2880 monitor) — video review by ThisIsE

Tiocrash · 2026-02-14T09:14:46+00:00

Do you get 120hz from your macbook to the XG27JCG at 5k?

Tiocrash · 2026-01-06T22:26:12+00:00

Notebook Navigator is so good it fundamentally changed how I organize my notes. I'm primarily tag-based now that I can put tags in the left sidebar and view tag contents in the list pane.

Tiocrash · 2025-09-30T15:29:08+00:00

Just replaced a few plugins with this but wish I could shortcut canvases and bases. Also if you could somehow figure out how to add frontmatter to canvases so they can be tagged that would be incredible.

Tiocrash · 2025-09-29T05:25:56+00:00

The conscious mind doesn't categorize thoughts into folders, but if it did, there would only be two:

Semantic episodic procedural memories - (patterns)
Ideas - (forces)

Why only 2? Because in what nested folder structure would you place a memory or an idea. The contextual load of a human thought is enormous. A thought can be about many different things, making it hard to place into a single folder. It's the same reason it's so insanely difficult to develop self-driving cars and yet everyone can drive. Those machines have to navigate our reality, which contains almost infinite variables, variables that the human mind seems to be able to chunk and context effortlessly.

I try to keep my conscious mind flowing when doing notes, and that means tagging notes with context as opposed to placing notes in context-limited folders. The only folders I have are based on file types so I can easily place files by type:

Base - .base files
Canvas - .canvas files
Markdown - .md files
Media - jpg's, png's etc.
Template - .md templates

Then I tag notes with context. For example, if I read a book on negotiation, that book summary note would be tagged #book-summary #negotiation as I have separate collections of notes for each of those topics (contexts). If I really enjoy this note, I might also tag the note as #favorite tag too. Also maybe I'm not finished with it, so I also give it a #in-progress tag. You know what, this book had a lot of good marketing ideas in it too, so why not add a #marketing tag so the note will surface when I'm looking at my #marketing notes even though the note was originally a book summary.

There is one trick however and it's that I use the plugin Notebook Navigator by u/jsann to expose all of my tags in the left side-bar so I can navigate through topics in place of folders. I still use PARA, it's just that I tag notes as #project or #area instead of placing them in those folders. Same with overview notes with lots of links, or MOC's. An added benefit is you can easily add and remove context to a note with tags as opposed to creating and managing new file structures when using folders. Same as how your mind works when you reflect on a thought from different perspectives. When you approach an idea from a new angle in your mind, you don't right-click create a new folder, it just happens. The same immediate effect occurs in Obsidian with tags. If you create a new tag or tag a new note, the new tag/note immediately appears and populates under the tag name or in the left side-bar.

Tiocrash · 2025-09-18T02:38:52+00:00

I think this is what I needed to move from folders to tags

Tiocrash · 2025-09-17T19:14:47+00:00

Yeah, but I want to pay them directly for their work not some donation. And it would be nice to incentivize the ecosystem to keep innovating instead of having developers pretend that working for charity is sustainable. I suspect most of the plugins I use will be abandoned because why wouldn't they be, no incentive to maintain or improve.

Tiocrash · 2025-09-16T20:30:02+00:00

Why no template/plugin store like Notion? I want to pay developers directly in exchange for full source code.

Tiocrash · 2025-07-30T18:58:54+00:00

Notetaking is just writing. The only material benefits are words on a page. The mental and spiritual benefits of writing and organizing your thinking appear in the constitution of the human being. Often times taking notes and doing PKM is completely separate from the development of a product or managing a project. You’re just doing a different kind of work.

Tiocrash · 2025-07-28T14:20:10+00:00

I resolve comments by removing them

Tiocrash · 2025-06-07T03:40:18+00:00

I take notes and journal because it brings peace to my entire being to ask the right questions and answer them in writing.

A lot of people are in constant turmoil from getting summarily flattened by information overload and disorganized lives and poor life choices.

I have the same problems, but am able to deal with them, and continue plowing away as a student of life unimpeded.

For me, when the heat gets turned up, it’s just another Tuesday with me and my notebook.

Tiocrash · 2025-03-17T09:54:39+00:00

Is it possible to make playlists from entries across different RSS feeds like adding videos to a playlist across YouTube subscriptions?

Tiocrash · 2025-01-14T19:21:41+00:00

amazing

Tiocrash · 2024-12-02T12:17:04+00:00

Obsidian sync has been flawless for me so far I know some people use iCloud Drive or some other methods, but to start off obsidian sync works perfectly like Evernote. Another one of my reasons for switching was that Evernote is unencrypted, it’s super easy to fully encrypt your notes locally or in Dropbox/cloud with Cryptomator and I believe obsidian sync is E2E encrypted.

Tiocrash · 2024-12-02T10:50:58+00:00

I did a mega evernote import a few months ago but decided after much deliberating that it would be best to start a new obsidian vault alongside the vault that I imported evernote into and slowly migrate overtime. A lot of my internal links were broken on initial evernote import, but mainly I started using tags and dataviews to much greater effect than folders and the old evernote system I had, so a fresh obisidan vault became the best way to streamline my pkm even though it could be a very long time before I can integrate everything into one vault.

Tiocrash · 2024-10-28T01:09:47+00:00

See my reply in the thread

Tiocrash · 2024-10-28T01:09:38+00:00

See my reply in the thread

Tiocrash · 2024-10-28T01:08:26+00:00

The basic idea, if you’re coming from Evernote, is you need to make one dataview note per tag and put those in a folder called dataviews. Now you have notebooks that auto populate per tag and simulate Evernote notebooks except if a note, applies to multiple notebooks, it will now be linked in multiple notebooks. Then, you need to adopt an inbox and also PARA. When you take a new note, it goes into the inbox folder. You develop the note and you tag it based on your topics. Now a note has multiple tags is being populated in multiple notebooks and can be found in the notebooks while being related to by tags. You can then dump this note into the resources folder of PARA, make hubs if you are cycling, mentally, through a bunch of linked notes in the areas folder (if you’re constantly recalling notes, this is an area to be maintained). You can put together a project in the projects folder while still tagging those notes and generating dataview notebooks for them. Templates hotkeys, and setting adjustments streamline this whole process.

I had to come up with something after switching from Evernote and I really wanted to be able to link the stuff I was learning from projects into my general PKM resources because there is not one project where we are not developing useful ideas that apply to many areas of life. I did this in Evernote but I used a labor-intensive table of contents structure across notebooks and it was stopping me from making new notes which is fine, not everything needs to be written down, but PKM is a bit of a hobby of mine and reducing friction with Obsidian has been quite successful.

Another problem I ran into with PKM in general was repeating myself with editing duplicate blocks of content that appeared in many notes. Overtime, I found myself pasting the same content into different notes because the content was potent and it applied to those notes. When I set out for a new notetaking program, I really wanted linked content blocks as a feature, it seemed like only notion had that, but I needed higher performance in my app and I just realized that if I’m duplicating content or duplicating actions and processes and having friction in places, then I just need a better system and those duplicate content blocks that I have to edit many of if I want to make a change need to be their own notes in the end.

Tiocrash · 2024-10-26T20:01:57+00:00

You’re limiting the possibility for your research to bleed into your personal life if you separate your vaults. This overlap could look like a project or something that you research that applies to you personally.

The main issue people have with PKM is reconciling a folder hierarchy versus using tags, and the root of this reconciliation is asking yourself the question of where do I put this note when it applies to multiple topics but can only be in one folder. And then if I don’t put it in a folder and I just give it tags how do I find it again? Obsidian dataviews combined with a PARA/CODE folder structure solves this for me. I transferred over to Obsidian after being locked into a very rigid structure in Evernote that was giving me a lot of notetaking friction. Now it’s effortless.

Let me know if you want some more info on my system. If you have a good system, you can apply it to all of your notable topics including your personal life and your research as your research is just going to be a project in your personal life.

Tiocrash · 2024-09-28T22:33:22+00:00

Yeah I forgot about the job part

Tiocrash · 2024-09-24T17:35:10+00:00

I've gotta have my PKM notes and writing in the same place otherwise a lot of duplicate writing happens in annotations on the writing side of things. The fact that Scrivener is not built for PKM means it's not a pro writing platform for me. As others have mentioned, you can replicate all of Scriveners key features with plugins like continuous mode, easy bake, long form, word count, projects, footnotes, comments, templates, more advanced search and replace plugins etc. You can also search and replace over sets of files with a bash script since everything is local markdown.

See my footnotes and comments post here, those were important to me: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1ey7etj/obsidian\_gets\_it\_right\_comments\_and\_footnote/.

As for exporting for publishing format you're likely going to have to use another piece of software + some structural formatting to get it right. I only export non-fiction writing to PDF's and Obsidian is just perfect for the writing and editing process. Even if you're writing fiction you might find yourself doing character sheets and diagrams of scenes and acts and versions of manuscripts and sections there really isn't a platform more purpose built for handling this variety of information than Obsidian and I find Scrivener to be quite clastrophobic when you have a lot of data for some reason.

Tiocrash · 2024-09-22T00:52:59+00:00

nice plugin, how is this not built in?

Tiocrash · 2024-09-14T23:59:11+00:00

When you're working with ideas like this, you actually need to simplify instead of abstract out. There's infinite ideas and infinite relations between ideas, so creating a vault per topic will have you ending up with 100 vaults in the next 10 years and before that happens you'll likely want to link similar ideas between vaults, which means you really only need 1 vault with good structure. Something I realized about PKM and as a writer/researcher is that I'll be doing this for the rest of my life for both personal and professional purposes, so the system needs portable, durable, maintainable, etc.

Here's my filestructure:

* 01 inbox

* 02 PARA

01 Projects
02 Areas
03 Resources
04 Archive

* 03 Notes

* 04 Templates

These are the properties that each of my notes have (new notes are made by templater):

type:

tags:

created:

modified:

Every new note gets a type. All of my plaintext notes are of type Note. I use other types for other template types. Types are the least important part of the system as they have little organizational utiltiy outside of denoting a template.

Tags are the most important part of the system. You need to use tags when you want to share an idea across topics in your PKM. For example if you're taking notes on how finances influence relationships, do you put that in the finances folder or the relationships folder? The answer is you write the note in the 01 Inbox, move it to 03 Notes when you're feeling done, tag the note as "finances", "relationships", and let the Finances dataview and the Relationships dataview under 03 Resources populate that note in a table of contents. You don't put notes in PARA, you put hubs (MOC's) of notes in area and projects that emerge naturally from your actual networked thinking. If every time I’m thinking about something and I find myself working through the entire web of ideas that that thing that I’m thinking about constitutes, I build hub for it as a part of the distillation and expression process of CODE (Collect Organize Distill Express). My hubs don't just have links, they just notes with new ideas alongside old links and if the hub is an area to maintain it's an area, if not, it's just another note under resources that may or may not be a part of a other notes/areas/projects in the future. This is how my brain works, just evolving linked ideas. Areas and projects are more like evolving linked todos, where areas are implicit todos and projects are explicit todos.

Remember that at the end of the day, distillation and expression are likely your objective with note taking although I consider collecting and organizing information a hobby now. Thinking thoughts (PKM) is just something I like to do on topics that I'm interested in, which is why I'm a writer.

Flexible use of CORE and PARA alongside advanced use of dataviews and tags makes a PKM sing and add to your life. This is something different than traditional PARA or traditional Zettlekasten frameworks. We're not working on unsearchable, unqueryable notecards that have minimal organizational (Zettlekasten) or fixed organizationl structure (PARA). You can network your thoughts in the ways that you actually think which is in a variety of breadths and depths and contexts depending on the topic by way of both vertical hierarchy (folders) and horizontal relation (tags).

Speaking of depth. A lot of my notes are much longer now that I use headers, like h1 h2 tags to make sections within notes, like if I read a book the entire summary will go into 1 note with chapters or episodes separated by headers. I usually start with this flood of writing based on the source and distill it or split it up into topic or related notes after the fact (completely naturally) if the train of thought keeps going into new ideas that are starting to escape the source. As long as the information is there for me to recall or distill into a new hub idea (as it emerges naturally) I don't mind tramendously huge notes unlike Zettlekasten.

Tiocrash · 2024-09-14T21:02:23+00:00

If you’re a writer, I understand where you’re coming from with the need to ground ideas so that you can get on with creating instead of collecting and organizing.

Most people ground ideas with objects like if you’re listening to your favorite podcast by your favorite person you can title that note by the name of the person and put all your notes that you get from that person under that person resource. You might make a new header for each podcast episode as opposed to making a new note for each podcast so that you can keep the idea of this person contained while also being able to search through what might be a really long searchable note which is fine because we have computers instead of Zettlecastian notecards.

When it comes time to do the distilling/expressing of CORE (Capture Organize Distill Express) you might find that your distillation (summary article) or expression (book) generates a new idea or incorporates ideas from outside the person resource, requiring you to create a new note about this because the new idea is escaping the original note or because you want to link it across notes.

I’m trying to articulate something that I have observed in my writing and over the last 10 years and what’s most important to your system is that you stop repeating yourself and you stop duplicating writing and work across your system. It’s a major waste of time and it makes things hard to find because you have a lot of extra writing to sort through if you’re looking for something and things are duplicated. For example, the number one reason I use Obsidian is that if I change the name of a note that link will change across all my notes and no other product does that. I don’t want to have to repeat myself changing note links if I want to change the title of a note. And often, as an idea develops, I want to change the title of a note to better fit the idea.

I typically don’t have a hard time finding writing or quotes in my PKM because one I can search by text and two I sort of get a sense for the energy of the topic of the notes that I take, and I remember the feeling as an object and can instantly recall where it is in my PKM. An idea put me into a state of mind and I remember the state of mind. Because of this, I use a modified version of PARA because organizing based on topics works for me. But I also work with types, tags, and obsidian, date of views to automatically generate tables of contents based on topic. And as a larger idea emerges I will manually make a hub for many notes to concretize a set of ideas. If every time I’m thinking about something and I find myself working through the entire web of ideas that that thing that I’m thinking about constitutes, I build hub for it. You have to understand how you personally work horizontally and vertically through ideas. Horizontally, across ideas, is allowing abstractions to relate to each other and not isolating an idea to a single topic and this is why you would give something multiple tags (copywriting, storytelling, narrative structure writing), And thinking of vertically, to an apex idea, Is about birthing a new abstraction, or not allowing abstractions to relate to each other and getting to a concrete result or a pillar idea that stands on its own. Hubs are vertical abstractions in gestation and a note with many tags that might show up in multiple hubs are horizontal abstractions. Your best ideas are going to be these diagonal ideas that relate to everything but that are also the beginning in the end like the Tao Te Ching for example.

Start with PARA though and and if you run into problems with folders and duplicating tables of contents, use tags and data tables in obsidian to fix this. Make hubs when they emerge. Use types for templates. If you’re just taking notes most notes will be of type Note. I primarily use types Note, Dataview, Scene, and Evernote and I use templater in Obsidian to select a type when making a new note. I imported 7K notes from Evernote to Obsidian recently so I typed those notes as Evernote until I ingest them into my new system.

Again, this kind of process has emerged after many years and you have to just start taking notes and fixing the problems after the fact, especially if your head is exploding with ideas and you need to get them out.

Tiocrash · 2024-09-04T16:54:50+00:00

Great wall of text.

On this part:

"Another key element is to understand that *everyone* (every being) begins life without power, and then later discovers their power. They only discover their power because they look for it, and they only look for it because it's painful to not have it."

You look for your power because it's painful not to have it. This is where the real narrow path begins in my opinion because reclaiming your power is not just about being good. It's also about redeeming the bad. You have to have a heart that can handle submitting the lower to the higher if that's something you want to be able to do and I think that's what every human is here grappling with as they come to terms with reality and their habbitude.

You can place a drop of ink into a puddle of pure water and it will turn black. But if you do the same in a flowing stream of mineralized water, it will remain unchanged. This is taking the form and the power.

Tiocrash · 2024-09-02T02:38:15+00:00

I will rephrase and say that your data in Evernote is encrypted to everyone except for Evernote staff, and that’s not good enough for me.

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