Mayank

i've been trying out "one page per idea" in my private obsidian. any new idea, no matter how small, gets its own page.

previously i would only sort/organize by date, which means multiple unrelated things ended up on the same page and it also became impossible to meaningfully search for anything from the past.

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Show threadMayankJun 18

i haven't taken the time to learn any fancy obsidian features (someday!)

i still pay for obsidian sync, because it's just so nice to use a piece of software and not have to deal with "AI" or any other crap

Show threadMatt WilcoxJun 18

@mayank Nor should you feel a need to.

Tech is full of people who own woodsaws and chisels but feel ashamed they do, because they feel like they ought to know how to build a house and a Windsor rocking chair because their tools _can_ do that. When all they ever need to do is saw some 2x4 to length and recess a hinge now and then.

Tools are a means to an end, not an end or burden.

Show threadColinJun 19
@mayank I’ve had heaps of success just syncing to something that supports FileDAV (like my Fastmail file storage). So great to have redundancy for something I depends on more and more
Show threadChris Silverman 🌻Jun 18
@mayank Not sure if you're a Hazel user, but Hazel (https://www.noodlesoft.com/) is pretty powerful when combined with Obsidian. I've been doing the one-page-per-idea thing for exactly the same reasons you mentioned, and I have a Hazel action that turns text files into .md files and autofiles them to my vault. Makes it really easy to jot stuff down in TextEdit or Tot or something and have that automatically added to Obsidian.
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Show threadMayankJun 18

@csilverman i write directly in Obsidian (often on my Android phone or Windows PC) so this wouldn't be useful for me

i would probably look for an Obsidian plugin before i look at external software. right now the big thing Obsidian is missing is automatic dates (seems like something that should be built in!)