Obsidian

A theme for the past month has been, “Wrapping my Obsidian vault around Johnny Decimal.” Johnny Decimal is “A system to organise your life.” It’s a structured system for keeping folders full of stuff, using a (fairly strict) numbering system. If you’re into note-taking, you already know about Obsidian. For most people, I believe that Obsidian is the Correct Answer for keeping notes and for PKM (or a “Zettelkasten”, if you’re feeling fancy). I keep trying to move my notes into Obsidian. I struggle with sticking with it, mostly because I’m already pretty good with Emacs. Once Emacs happens, nothing else feels viable. I keep trying though, because it would be nice to have decent mobile access to notes. And sometimes Emacs feels too much like work. Anyway, I’ve been giving Obsidian another run. ...

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

This morning, I had trouble finding something that I was certain I’d written yesterday. I was pretty sure I’d written it in one org-mode file or another, but it seemed to be missing. Turns out it wasn’t missing. I just couldn’t 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’s what it looks like in Doom Emacs by default. ...

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

Forcing myself to use Obsidian

Bombs with blinking lights. Obsidian? Harvard. Bluesky.