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What do you use Obsidian for? (self.obsidianmd)
submitted 1 year ago by coderofhonor to c/[email protected]
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I find the idea of owning a personal knowledge graph incredibly intriguing, but I've had trouble getting started. To be frank, I'm not quite sure what to include. A lot of the information that I might feel like I would want to save is also readily available via Google and can be retrieved faster by Googling than by diving into my Obsidian notes. I'm focusing primarily on personal use-cases, so nothing for business or freelancing. What do you use Obsidian for? And how much do you use it? Tens of notes per month... Or hundreds? Or even thousands?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

All sorts of things:

  1. I use it for 3 general information displays (site updates, RSS feed updates that meet certain keyword criteria, and a weather dispaly) that i feed from terminal apps (the terminal apps print to text files, which Obsidian then displays)

  2. I use it as a calendar/task manager that tells me everything from what i'm doing tomorrow to what i need to check in six months

  3. I use it to organize world building stuff - everything from one-off ideas, to idea lists, to huge files full of names, places, etc even pictures.

  4. I use it to organize true crime research stuff - both current and past cases, and larger cultural trends like the Satanic Panic.

Tags + folders make it very easy to keep stuff organized, which i like, and since i can just zip up a folder and send it to someone, it's very portable if it needs to be.