“On Android I use Quick Draft for this. It stores the information directly in the Obsidian vault. You can quickly capture ideas in many ways, also with voice and transcription ...”
“It’s as simple or complicated as you want it. It can’t be overkill if you don’t make it too complicated. Just because obsidian can do hundreds of things doesn’t mean you have to use all of them.”
“il plugin è spettacolare, grazie per averlo condiviso, ti volevo chiedere una cosa, quando riapro obsidian il grafo cambia sempre colori e ripristina o nasconde categorie, se nascondo con l'occhio una cartella poi i riappare visibile, cosi con le altre, come mai? grazie”
“I use a combination of Claude (personal), GitHub Copilot (work) and Obsidian for maintaining a knowledge base, keeping a work log, and helping with surfacing items for performance reviews.”
“it seems like you need to turn lots of PDFs into markdowns? then import to obsidian? If my understanding is right, you can try my OCR desktop tool, which can turn batch PDFs into makdowns.”
“Currently, I use the PDF++ plugin to take my literature notes, but it doesn't feel optimized. It ends up freezing or lagging on certain PDFs for some reason. Any recommendations would be appreciated!”
“I think Obsidian tends to attract perfectionists/overthinkers who feel like they have to have their whole system figured out and anticipate all the plugins they'll possibly want, then get burnt out before they've even really begun.”
“I see that you want to use Obsidian for too many different things. You're trying to predict what structure you'll need. But I think Obsidian is a bottom-up app.”
“I am in a bit of a pickle working out my Obsidian system. I started in earnest yesterday and have been working on it for a good half day but am really struggling and need support.”
“the last time i did a big rework of my vault (also mostly messing with the frontmatter), the tag wrangler + linter plugins were very helpful! i used an external code editor (visual studio code) to do some bulk search+replace text lol (easier to do this in vsc than in obsidian).”
“I use Obsidian for my TTRPG notes and wanted individual notes to look more like the books I use at the table, without changing the theme for my entire vault. You can apply styles based on a note property, so I ended up making a few for the games I play/run.”
“from that perspective, I would start to just use obsidian to take your notes, without much structure... learn how THAT tool works first (links, tags, etc)... and only when you start finding areas that are actually becoming problems for you THEN set out to solve them”
“I use the "Open Daily Note" Widget. It opens really fast and I can just write in a new note that updates every day. No need for another plugin/app, it's base Obsidian”
“On KDE I wired up Plasma that CNTRL+N goes straight to Obsidian in what I call Fleeting Notes vault and launches a templates new note for quick thought capture. I then can then turn they not into an action somewhere else .”
“I'm still in notion, yet to make the jump to obsidian, so it's useful to see how others use obsidian for journalling. And agreed about how digital journalling is wayyy better than paper joirnalling.”
“I used to use Xiaomi Notes to quickly write down spontaneous thoughts; but now that I'm using Obsidian, the process is a bit slower because Obsidian takes a few seconds to open, which is a little frustrating when I want to type something really fast.”
“I actually love obsidian, and use it for a variety of daily notes, task list, mainly school notes for linking, but when it came to journaling I just wanted a space that forced me to write.”
“Obsidian is a bit of a learning curve depending on how deep you want to go, adding plugins layers on complexity at exactly the time that you don’t need it.”
“Used Apple Notes for years, but switched to Obsidian for more flexibility. I just use the **Notebook Navigator** plugin for a similar dual-pane setup, the **Cupertino** theme, and a simple **PARA folder structure** as my organization system.”
“Basically you should know that you can link notes. Then, start using obsidian, and whenever you want to do something, that’s when you look for it. Like, templates, queries, dashboards etc… if you don’t need it, why learn it ?”
“Start with basics, like notes inside folders. Then maybe you'll want to link some notes together if they make sense. Then, after some time throw some tags at them.”
“I have an Obsidian Vault using as my... well... I don't know what to call it but some sort of mixture of PKMS and Second Brain and whatever you wanna call it. Now, I was experimenting with this for a couple of month and so far I have approximately a 1000 notes.”
“I suggest doing it in Obsidian though, as you may discover the added features give you value over time, and then it's easy to build what you need if you already have your entries in it.”