Ed W8EMVOct 31, 2025

I've been using #Obsidian for more than four years now, with by my count about 1400 daily log entries and a total of over 7000 pages in my big vault.

There are some people who use this tool for very elaborate hierarchical structures in which to encode all of their knowledge about something. I'm more one to look forward to a blank page every day to start from scratch.

The promise I made to myself is that when I hit 10000 pages in this thing that I will re-examine my choices for how to take notes. I do notice that my daily notes are so focused on cross-linking to other pages that they are way less expressive in style than the blog posts that I once wrote. Links are very useful in Obsidian, but over-linking gets in the way of picking distinctive wording.

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@w8emv print them all to a book!
Oct 31, 2025 at 1:44amWeb
Show threadEd W8EMVOct 31, 2025

@mingwei

The challenge in any book is what comes first, second, last - when you start to write and just don't stop you get all sorts of incomplete images, dead ends, partially filled out thoughts waiting for a second or third or nth visit to make them whole.

The 7000 item vault has about 600,000 words, and about 300,000 of those words are in the daily entries. Way, way too many words to get book treatment.