“I do a lot of my work in obsidian, and there are many different kinds of notes coming from that. I am a science communicator, so I draft my science content in notes.”
“If you need a note taking app, start a fresh vault without any tweaks and start taking notes. If there's a need for some changes in how Obsidian works or to extend, than make that changes and keep taking notes.”
“The system I currently use in obsidian was birthed initially from my Bullet Journal. For the bullet journal, the things I needed functionality for was super straight forward: tasks, journaling, diary, misc idea capture.”
“You just open up a new note and type up whatever you want to take a note about 🤷🏻♀️ I think because Obsidian itself has the potential to be so complex, people really complicate the note taking process itself. I use it to type up school notes, ideas and drafts for writing, track craft projects.”
“It’s the YouTube videos selling Obsidian as a second brain that will make you a genius. That is where I’m guessing the “what notes should I take” is coming from.”
“i did try looking, i'm new to obsidian so i'm unsure how much to stick to the review ratings thing bc some stuff is like use with caution but mostly i didnt find anything like this from searching”
“I’ve been building an Obsidian vault that functions as the “brain” behind my projects, while Notion holds the more structured files and collections. I keep running into the exact problem you described: I want real databases without creating a small civilization of individual notes.”
“For example, I use obsidian for studying and import notes from books and papers I read. For example, when I need to write an essay, let’s say, about the consequences of tropical forests being cleared for cattle ranching, I search for notes on deforestation, the water cycle, other related topics.”
“The vault is useful when I already know what I’m looking for. If I remember the topic, author, or a phrase from the note, search and backlinks usually get me there.”
“yes I had the same problem and I was going to do the same thing and keep my knowledge in Obsidian and tracking in notion , until I remembered I am a developer and Obsidian allows you to do whatever you want and decided to do something about it , there is other plugins that allow you to do something semilar but not exaclty like this .”
“I just spent a year's worth of Notion because I liked the database system for personal tracker (knowledge still in Obsidian). Now you're dropping this?”
“Journaling is one place I have always struggled with in Obsidian (and been trying for years). Too many loose thoughts, tidbits, etc and then the processing to pull it together.”
“If you like keeping your notes in local markdown it is very good, and I have been pleased how much of the GTD basics I have been able to build in it fairly easily and quickly.”
“For Obsidian, wouldn't you just go to whatever file system your using, make an empty set of folders outside your vault and copy it into it whenever needed? And then change the name of the main folder (chapter 2, chapter 3, for instance).”
“damn! i was mid-release process for Notational Velocity-style editor with some Obsidian syntax understanding called knap... now i have to find a new name :)”
“I'm trying to build my own version of obsidian for personal use but rn it feels kinda not fleshed out. What features do you think are essential for your workflow that really make/break the experience?”
“Obsidian is still not open source, even though many people believe so. everything you need to make plugins is open, but not obsidian itself (last time i checked)”
“Then correctly deciding to use separate vaults for each project, I now spend 90% of my productive time in Obsidian and a good LLM. Every other app (and even my Linux Mint environment) is rarely used!”
“Havent looked into the last few months but a while ago i tried to replace my goodnotes with obsidian but all plugins like excalidraw and pdf viewer were to clunky”
“are there any things I should know about using my obsidian vault on ipad, best way to use it, and what plugins I should get to make features better since its kind of clunky on ipad.”
“on the other hand, however, if you're not that technical yourself it might actually be easier to find some Obsidian plugin, that does all of this for you automatically. it kind of seems like there would be some plug ins like that for obsidian, but I haven't looked.”
“Is there a viable way to make obsidian my notes taking app if all I need it for is annotating screenshtos with line tools, arrows and text? I don't see a natural way to draw like evernote.”