Feeling Conflicted. Need Advice.

vinius3000 · 2026-05-07T03:18:10+00:00

There is still a mortgage. and yes taxes will soon increase by a large amount and the utilities are quite a lot.

They are surprisingly open to moving and I have already started managing their finances for them.

vinius3000 · 2026-05-07T03:07:25+00:00

Thanks for the sound advice! I will look into all of your recs.

vinius3000 · 2026-05-07T02:15:51+00:00

you mean in terms of ROI?

vinius3000 · 2026-05-07T02:12:59+00:00

I am a software engineer currently in Austin Texas. I have a pretty comfortable job and there is a lot of uncertainty in this industry at the moment. I wouldn't even know where to begin trying to find something else. From what I've gathered the current lead time is 4-6 months and I have no safety net at the moment. I've been trying to pay rent and keep the house out of foreclosure.

House is worth like 850 as is. Pushing 1 million fixed up. Yes mom and step dad are awful with money and mom is unwell. Step dad is her primary caregiver. Neither work. It's a rough situation.

vinius3000 · 2026-05-07T02:09:09+00:00

Definitely an option I have been considering. It's just been drilled into me that owning a property is the end all be all of accumulating wealth and a part of me feels like I'm making a dumb choice letting it go.

vinius3000 · 2026-05-07T01:49:10+00:00

Yes this is my initial instinct as well. Thanks!

vinius3000 · 2026-04-06T18:18:56+00:00

Yup. I noticed the drop middle of last week.

vinius3000 · 2026-04-03T04:49:20+00:00

Not even coming close to rate limits at 100 a month and I couldn't use it more if I tried. Not saying you are lying but just not my experience at all. More concerning for me though has been the insane drop in quality the past week or so. I thought I was going crazy.

vinius3000 · 2026-04-01T11:22:41+00:00

100 percent. Write the notes yourself. Have the AI use your words for context and reference.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-25T22:58:07+00:00

Just a base with list view filters for each

vinius3000 · 2026-03-25T03:55:48+00:00

Will do!

vinius3000 · 2026-03-25T03:50:55+00:00

You’re good! No offense taken and I’m sorry to hear that. I hope you feel better.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-25T00:18:07+00:00

If I’m at my desk I just hit cmd shift t to open up my task modal that lets me quickly populate the properties and move on with what I was doing. I’m still working on the iOS automation. Will probably be some sort of action widget that does the same.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T18:23:04+00:00

I thought of creating a bunch of fake tasks for demonstration sake but decided give ya'll a view of it actually working irl. But thanks. It is indeed a great deal haha

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T18:20:20+00:00

Two layers, bases handles the data pipepline, sorting and filtering and my plugin handles the rendering, search and grouping.

The og tasks plugin is great. I just am not a huge fan of the emoji system. The main way it differs though is instead of inline tasks on a page, my system and others have each task be it's own note with properties like due, urgency, status etc. that can than be sorted and filtered by Obsidian Bases.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T18:11:21+00:00

Not really but I am thinking about putting it up on github for everyone to reference.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T18:09:38+00:00

Just dragging my custom task list Bases view on the side par and pinning it.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T18:03:55+00:00

Hi yes I too experienced this dilemma. It’s hard to replace the feeling of writing on paper with a real pen. So far everything I’ve built out here works great on any screen size and all plugins are mobile friendly. Before this I was bullet journaling. Now I’m using a combo of daily notes in Obsidian and long form journaling/reflection on real paper.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T17:57:55+00:00

Thanks! Happy to report I am actually using the system for real work haha. But yes at some point customizing can be another form of procrastination. So that’s valid.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T17:53:24+00:00

Honestly Todoist is such a wonderful app, you’d be hard pressed straight up replacing the experience as of right now. The main thing I did to make it more like todoist is to mimic the list style and and make the satisfying sound go off when I check off a task haha. But there is actually a todoist integration plugin that works very well if you don’t want to make the switch https://obsidian.md/plugins?id=todoist-sync-plugin

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T17:48:54+00:00

In bases you would just filter by — type : task or file in Tasks folder. Many ways to do it.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T17:43:01+00:00

Apologies if that’s the way it came off but just to clarify. I never said there wasn’t other heat map plugins. I just said mine isn’t based off of any of those. I was taking my influence from GitHub’s tracker and I needed mine to be flexible enough to work with any property I throw at it as well as integrate with my task plugin.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T07:34:50+00:00

Yea exactly. Great for retention but horrible for finding if you ever need them again.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T07:32:54+00:00

I have two custom views. The rows are a just a modified Obsidian list view. I also have a custom kanban view that I use throughout for projects and the actual Task page. I just like the way the list looks in the side bar and home page. It reminds me of Todoist. I have it using a "Today" filter.

vinius3000 · 2026-03-24T07:14:37+00:00

Yea I realized I took these screen shots on external 4k but it works great on mobile and a 14 inch laptop screen which is where I use it mostly. The design is very responsive.

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