Obsidian is not at all joyful to use

I spent some time in Obsidian again yesterday. I do this once a month or so just to see if somehow it鈥檚 changed into something I鈥檇 like to use. Obsidian is great software, in theory, but I still find it boring and unpleasant to actually use.

January 4, 2024 路 46 words

When a minor annoyance sparks an unreasonable change

This morning, I had trouble finding something that I was certain I鈥檇 written yesterday. I was pretty sure I鈥檇 written it in one org-mode file or another, but it seemed to be missing. Turns out it wasn鈥檛 missing. I just couldn鈥檛 see it because of the way the results show up when searching for something in Emacs. The display of search results when running projectile-ripgrep is pretty awful, and I missed what I was searching for. Here鈥檚 what it looks like in Doom Emacs by default. ...

November 9, 2023 路 210 words

I just can't get into Obsidian

My thirty-days-of-Obsidian lasted nine days.

July 9, 2023 路 248 words

Wednesday, July 05, 2023

Forcing myself to use Obsidian

July 5, 2023 路 58 words

Saturday, July 01, 2023

Bombs with blinking lights. Obsidian? Harvard. Bluesky.

July 1, 2023 路 179 words