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Seb De Deyne
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Blogger, occasional speaker.
Blogger, occasional speaker.
✍️ New post! How I take notes + use Obsidian.
I don't care about fancy features like backlinks, canvas… I like Obsidian because it's fast, minimal, customizable, works with Markdown files, and has a good enough mobile app.
At the same time, I've slowly grown towards a more consistent way of taking and organizing notes. While I'm using Obsidian, it's a system that can easily be ported to any other tool as long as you have something that resembles a filesystem.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/how-take-notes-my-obsidian-setup
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Love this rivers and buckets metaphor on Sketchplanations (originally from Oliver Burkeman)
"There's an endless stream of books to read, programs to watch, […] Rather than feeling pressure to clear out the bucket or tick off all the items, instead, you can choose from the river what interests you in the knowledge that more will always come along.”
Rivers and buckets
Too many interesting articles to read? Too many places to visit? Too many projects to work on? Too many podcasts to listen to? Too many interesting things to learn? Try thinking of each as rivers, not buckets. Oliver Burkeman shared a beautiful and powerful metaphor to reframe the bucket list of everything we want to do but can't possibly get done. There's an endless stream of books to read, programs to watch, and things you may want to get done. Instead of a bucket list to get through, try thinking of it as a river where attractive options drift by. Rather than feeling pressure to clear out the bucket or tick off all the items, instead, you can choose from the river what interests you in the knowledge that more will always come along. This reframing resonated with me when I considered everything I wanted to read or the emails in my inbox. When you have too many emails, you find you answer the ones that really need answering. There will always be more. Growing up with a scarcity mindset regarding photos, I used to carefully trim each photo I didn't want after a weekend away or travelling. It was a revelation to me to consider selecting the ones I liked instead of worrying about removing every one that I didn't. Maybe you do have to get through everything at work, but this mindset doesn't need to apply to your personal life. Don't beat yourself up. It's impossible to keep up with everything. Consider thinking of areas of your life like rivers, not buckets. Oliver explains rivers not buckets in "Treat your to-read pile like a river". Or listen to Oliver reading the short essay in the Waking Up app. Also see: The four pillars of too much, Lifetime reads, Tsundoku
Experimenting with analog todos/notes. Not looking at a screen every now and then leaves more room for my thoughts.
Shipped a redesign of my blog recently 💅 Will write a post on inspiration & technical details soon. And a long overdue post on migrating to Statamic!
Still very happy with Obsidian! Working on a post on how I organize my notes in general (works for any app) and will share my Obsidian setup later.
