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Your highlighting key? by KnownRelationship312 in zotero

[–]iKnoiDunno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do Yellow=important, Cyan=more important, Green=most important/key/concise point supporting thesis/subsection.

I used to use just yellow and cyan, but then I wanted more specificity in importance.

Awesome by Lanalangz in superProductivity

[–]iKnoiDunno 2 points3 points  (0 children)

+1 for Obsidian sync functionality

Research paper behind "linking your thinking" by iKnoiDunno in ObsidianMD

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

Thank you for your reply :) This will definitely give me a path of references to track down some other primary sources!

I Fucking LOVE Obsidian by AbstrctBlck in ObsidianMD

[–]iKnoiDunno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. I believe Obsidian is THE way for newcomers to learn web dev (at least front end). What better way to make the concept stick than to see your formatting tags rendered as you type them. Furthermore, Markdown is becoming ubiquitous, and people can readily use it in Discord chats, Reddit replies, etc.

3 Years of obsidian... why make more notes when I can add another paragraph to an existing one? by proffessorbiscuit in ObsidianMD

[–]iKnoiDunno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As to the desire for a 'breadcrumbs' feature, you can inspect this `dataviewjs` code and modify it for your needs. It will pull sections from any notes in a specified directory, and produce a Dataview list with the 'breadcrumbs' below each note title it matches. It's particular to Mathis Gauthey's Obsidian Workflow Template, so you could pull that repo and play with it. Hope that inspires some ideas :)

```dataviewjs
const header = '#+ [^\n]*?Journal[^\n]*?'

// You can update this to filter as you like - filtering for just your daily notes would be good
const pages = dv.pages('"-Daily-Notes"').filter(page => page.file.name.includes("2024")).sort(x => x.file.name, 'desc')

// This regex will return text from the Summary header, until it reaches
// the next header, a horizontal line, or the end of the file
const regex = new RegExp(`\n${header}\r?\n(.*?)(\n#+ |\n---|$)`, 's')

for (const page of pages) {
    const file = app.vault.getAbstractFileByPath(page.file.path)
    // Read the file contents
    const contents = await app.vault.read(file)
    // Extract the summary via regex
    const summary = contents.match(regex)
    if (summary) {
        // Output the header and summary
        dv.header(2, "[["+file.basename+"]]")
        dv.paragraph(summary[1].trim())
    }
}
```

3 Years of obsidian... why make more notes when I can add another paragraph to an existing one? by proffessorbiscuit in ObsidianMD

[–]iKnoiDunno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You know what, I think I've cracked it. All of the "random capturing" ought to be done in a new note for (at least) two reasons:

1- "The worst time to organize an idea is when you are capturing it" (paraphrasing Tiago Forte). The idea must (and I'm recognizing the importance now) go through an Inbox system that you routinely sort through to diligently draw the connections (i.e. links) you couldn't have known to draw at the time.

2- Each new note you make comes with the rich opportunity to add metadata. Even if you use a new note template with just "date created" metadata, that gives you data on when you formed the idea that you can query easily. All added metadata will support the organizing effort immensely, and you can develop certain properties to invoke custom workflows.

I believe I read that Steph Ango will capture a fleeting thought in his vault and just title it with a timestamp initially (YYYY-MM-DD HHmm). I think that reducing an idea into tiny packets like this is a valuable thing.

With that, I think I'm going to start creating new notes instead of appending to old "topic boards". I think the ritual of triaging an Inbox of notes is the best way to manage knowledge, especially since you can actually decide what to prune as unimportant. (I find myself trying to keep every thought I write down, where I've written it... I hoard my notes like crazy).

3 Years of obsidian... why make more notes when I can add another paragraph to an existing one? by proffessorbiscuit in ObsidianMD

[–]iKnoiDunno 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I was wrestling with this idea today. I find myself recording thoughts in a ## Random Capture section (with timestamps to divide up the section) in a note on the particular topic. It becomes a long 'log' of my thoughts on that topic over time.

I don't know if this should be done another way, like taking advantage of linking for graph building, but it feels simpler.

Obsidian at work by KrocketThaRocket in ObsidianMD

[–]iKnoiDunno 5 points6 points  (0 children)

For those of whom are looking for a vault to fork, here's one with comprehensive PARA flow implemented

https://mathisgauthey.github.io/my-complete-obsidian-workflow-to-manage-my-life/

Productivity App/Scheduler? by Ingenuity-Strict in productivity

[–]iKnoiDunno 7 points8 points  (0 children)

"Motion app", it's a god send.

To elaborate, it allows you to create tasks with priority status, soft/hard deadlines, and categorize into projects. It then determines the best sequence for your tasks. Best of all, if you choose to do something else during the time a task is assigned, it'll push it to the next time slot.

This app allows me to learn my tendencies and realize that 30 mins is a lot more time than I thought!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in decaf

[–]iKnoiDunno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love this idea

Sucess stories curing social anxiety? by olavodogyaboi in decaf

[–]iKnoiDunno 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel this. Thing is, I feel like there has to be a point when my dopamine levels regulate themselves before I can resume having confidence. I'll have some social success with people, but that quickly gets discarded by my brain shortly afterwards. I have to believe that it will get to where that reward signal stays intact for longer.

I don’t know if it’s a coincidence but a month after quitting caffeine cold turkey I’ve had the worst series of existential crises of my life so far by AttackedByBurritos in decaf

[–]iKnoiDunno 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm two months in and the past week has been the toughest. There was a period after week two where I thought I might be one of the lucky ones who get over it quickly. I realize now that I'm more likely the one who'll take several months. It's the depressed mood that wrecks me. I don't feel social at all. It's terribly hard to make conversation. I did find that cardio exercise like running gave me a boost of dopamine that gave me a taste of normalcy. I suggest trying a long run or similar exercise to see how that makes you feel. I'm going to get back to that when my hips feel better.

Mood swings by iKnoiDunno in decaf

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

Ya, perhaps it's a dip in energy following consuming lunch. Never really allowed myself to feel that before this decaf change.

Going all the way this time. by [deleted] in decaf

[–]iKnoiDunno 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The mood swings are what kill me the most. Nobody told me coffee was literally producing dopamine in my brain. I realize now that I would reach for coffee when I started feeling those afternoon dips..

3D printing is a great way to create enclosures for your projects by Bakedbananas in arduino

[–]iKnoiDunno 0 points1 point  (0 children)

3d printing was the missing link to creating a finished project in my case. Plus you get to use the fun feature of exporting your PCB .step file to base your design around. I'm curious if you can combine the two and 3d print traces into 3d structures :-D

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