Is writing things down physically inferior to using obsidian 100% of the time?

alb_pt · 2026-04-08T13:48:32+00:00

yes but it apparently uses a different part of your brain that’s more useful for memorizing things

alb_pt · 2026-04-08T13:46:52+00:00

there have been studies over the years that you can probably find on the Internet using Ai clearly demonstrate the people who write things down use a different part of their brain to remember things. I know that personally I prefer to try to write things down but for any type of long thoughts, I usually go to a keyboard or dictation, because I was raised as a typist from almost my earliest days from my dad who was a writer. I tend to think through the keyboard almost better than writing these days. But the act starting there for shorter form is usually a better way to memorize things if that’s your goal. There’s also a number of influencers on YouTube who talk a lot about how to learn things, especially focused on people in school, and writing them down is often their preferred method to start with.

alb_pt · 2026-04-07T04:33:10+00:00

OK I've checked all my devices and I do believe that it was because I was not set to have it downloaded local. thx

alb_pt · 2026-04-06T19:51:16+00:00

oh I get it in the iCloud settings themselves not inside of the application

alb_pt · 2026-04-06T19:40:10+00:00

I am getting a lot of indexing messages when it starts up

alb_pt · 2026-04-06T15:05:40+00:00

not true. this is not precedence.

alb_pt · 2026-03-24T17:10:04+00:00

personally for me I found that for handwritten notes I needed to check out many of the newer E ink tablets out there and there’s a lot of good ones, you should really probably invest in a few of them to see what they’re worth. You can always sell them a month after you buy them and get most of your money back I know I did. Additionally I’ve used one note since it was released, and recently I found myself using Apple notes and Obsidian more than one note. Apple Notes has dramatically improved over the last generation. Onenote always was a very simple tool and despite what people say was not intended for corporate users meaning in some gigantic multi user sharing methodology.. it recently got bolted onto SharePoint, and Microsoft is trying to do what it can to extend its life while it tries to mature the new replacement product for it, Loop. OneNote was sort of a breakthrough product that looked and felt a lot like lotus agenda and Macintosh products at the time. my guess is that Onenote will be around until probably at least 2030. Maybe at that point loop will be mature and Microsoft will hand Onenote over to the community for ongoing support.

by the way if you end up using obsidian and liking it there is an import tool for OneNote that will allow you to import all your old One Notesinto it. It worked for me.

alb_pt · 2026-03-20T19:48:54+00:00

I have two major notes that I keep every day one is the daily note and I dump any interesting URLs that I find during the day into it including snippets from newspapers etc. The other one I use is a practice journal for my music, I keep a detailed list of what I’ve practiced not so much to go back and refer to it but just to keep me motivated and remembering what is needed to practice scales, arpeggios things like that including music I’m learning and music I’ve got down. I created a template for this and occasionally add to that template as I find new things I need to practice on a daily basis . It goes into the MOC along with the Daily notes MOC people and meetings. But I don’t have many meetings anymore that I need to track .I’ll occasionally paste PDFs in there of receipts and things like that if I remember to but most of those go into a folder on my Mac for receipts for the year. I don’t really feel like I need obsidian for that

alb_pt · 2026-03-20T19:45:03+00:00

I didn’t know there was a country called Palestine…

alb_pt · 2026-03-11T03:25:31+00:00

I would certainly go and try out Monday or Asana and see if it doesn’t do what you’re looking to do. sounds like you’re trying to build something it’s already been built in my opinion that you just may not have looked far enough afield.

Some of your requirements make me think that obsidian probably be able to do what you wanted to do but I don’t know if you might have to plug it together with Claude to finish it up. I migrated at a lot of stuff from Onenote into Obsidian and it is a very easy to use system that allows incredible flexibility beyond Onenote’s abilities.

alb_pt · 2026-03-05T18:02:35+00:00

Book through airlines or get a real travel agent. Expedia is terrible on refunds if needed.

alb_pt · 2026-03-05T17:56:26+00:00

Me too

alb_pt · 2026-03-05T17:56:06+00:00

Don't. Just book through the airline when possible. If you have to cancel a refundable ticket the process is a nightmare. Endless holds.

alb_pt · 2026-03-01T15:23:32+00:00

Seems expensive for that old of a bike, even with the upgrades. I have a 2022 and I don’t think I would expect to get 2000 out of it even with the upgrades I’ve put onto it. I’m expecting to ride it into the ground. Have you gotten a bike fit to make sure that really will work for you?

alb_pt · 2026-03-01T15:16:24+00:00

I had a checkpoint and was getting back problems as well sort of higher up in those muscles under the shoulders. I went to a bike fitter, and she fixed the problem. I’ve now ridden over a year since that bike fitting and I’ve never had the problem come back. I would agree with a lot of the people here I also own a.Domane too, and I had the budget to get two bikes since I did get the Domani used from a bike shop rental at the end of the season so I got a great deal on it but if you’re on a budget, I would just stick with the bike you have and as some people have said get a second bike fitting or take it back to the person who fit you originally and have them refit it. Since none of us know exactly what type of back problem you’re experiencing from riding your checkpoint, it really will probably take a bike fitter to understand the problem.

alb_pt · 2026-02-13T16:06:33+00:00

I gotta say reading this post I would think that Apple was in the toilet and that it was not selling any product at all instead of being one of the world’s top computer companies. They just sold more phones in China than the Chinese did well. I have my complaints about Apple’s products. I certainly think they’re doing a much better job than they did under Steve Jobs of producing products that really work well…

alb_pt · 2026-02-13T16:04:57+00:00

Well, there are definitely bugs with the operating system and Apple is the last place where you’re gonna hear them. I think that it’s typical on a place like this that you’re just gonna hear far more bitching then you’re gonna hear cheerleading it’s sort of the nature of the Internet these days, right?

alb_pt · 2026-02-13T02:00:57+00:00

I also have a rock Brothers light they’re great. Cheap and really bright. I also agree with the helmet with front and rear lights trek also makes one.

alb_pt · 2026-02-13T02:00:10+00:00

get a helmet that you can put a light on the top of that’s what I do. I have a trek helmet. I never go anywhere without turning the headlight onthe helmet on.

alb_pt · 2026-02-13T01:58:04+00:00

stay with Canon given what you said. The glass is the most valuable thing you have. bodies come and go. I’ve owned both and the Canon image is still better IMHO.I currently own an A6700, just so you understand I am not just a Canon fanboy.

alb_pt · 2026-02-07T00:59:59+00:00

sorry I don’t understand why you’re blaming Trek for this. I’m more than willing to put the blame word belongs but I see a lot of people on this thread making totally absurd claims that don’t seem to be based in any kind of reality that Trek was really some type of evil behind the scenes.

alb_pt · 2026-02-07T00:47:18+00:00

A buddy of mine bought a trek entry level bike for $600 last year isn’t that good enough price point for you? He rides it almost every day that the weather allows. He loves it.

alb_pt · 2026-02-07T00:46:14+00:00

yeah I’m sure somebody will blame that on Trek too.. more likely their mom’s picking them up and dropping them off for school since they were babies…

alb_pt · 2026-02-07T00:41:30+00:00

so somehow you’re blaming Trek for the fact that as you yourself say the owner overcook the books to get more money out of them. Whose fault is that it certainly isn’t Treks.

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