I love #ObsidianMD. However, many enthusiasts in the space tend to create 20- to 30-minute tutorials. (Love you guys, but ain't got no time for that! ;P)

I'm a visual learner, so videos are immensely valuable to me. However, I am not convinced that text-based documentation will ever go away.

Here's the documentation I wrote for Notebook Navigator, a very popular Obsidian plug-in that I'm still using.

At first, I found the UI complex, but breaking it down in a document helped me learn-up the plug-in quickly. (The best way to learn is to teach someone else!)

If you use Obsidian, you may find my guide for Notebook Navigator useful: https://elizabethtai.com/2025/11/25/how-to-use-notebook-navigator-obsidian-community-plug-in/

PS: One of my dream pet projects is to create a documentation site from something like #Astro for the various community plug-ins out there. But I'm so busy I don't have time to even start. One day!

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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@liztai/116558964865160990

To elaborate more on the corporate writing thing - I was a little too glib in saying that it's the same for writers. Unlike engineers, our work doesn't "break" noticeably. (Though I'd say a lawsuit is a pretty good wake up call lol)

When content "breaks", it's just a slow erosion of brand trust and messaging. It would probably take longer for some corporations to understand the value of content strategists, content designers, tech writers etc.

Despite AI infiltrating every aspect of the writing profession in the corporate field, there's really no replacing editorial judgement and writing flair, which is hard to define.

My concern remains the same: If no junior writers are hired, who can be these specialist writers?

I began my writing career doing the most mundane, achingly boring things. I sharpened my editing skills because at the newspaper, senior editors didn't want to edit submissions from the public, some of them from children. (Let's just say I learned A LOT from editing these submissions.)

Then I wrote "updates" from endless amounts of badly written press releases.

I interviewed people the more flashy journos didn't want to interview.

All these added to my experience.

How do we ensure working writers get the training I did?

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Tell me you haven't talked to a real live tech writer on a time scale of decades without telling me.

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I fortunately have one colleague left (after another left), but we work in separate hours and I actually understand how this isolation feels. To compensate, I work with friends during the day and make a point to go to the physical office. I wonder how is it gonna be like in the future.

I told my friend when discussing this that in the future the need for a big team of writers may be reduced; writers will still be needed but they may be managing AI junior writers instead.

"A study published in the Journal of Applied Psychology (and analyzed by Marlynn Wei in Psychology Today) found that the more employees collaborated with AI, the more they felt “socially deprived” and lonely. The studies say that AI lacks the social cues (“facial expressions, eye contact, body postures, and gestures”) that we humans have been biologically wired for. Absent these social cues, we feel a void. "
https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/isolation-loneliness-worsens-with-ai#:~:text=.%20A%20study%20published,feel%20a%20void.

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Rinse repeat

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