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What do you use Obsidian for? (self.obsidianmd)

submitted 2 years 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] 1 points 2 years ago

Mostly for class notes.

It isnt possible to find everything I need on Google. Instead I have to take presentations, textbook chapters, videos and summarize them. I add in my own understanding and where I misunderstood for later.

Not sure if it's common but I use tags to mark questions (e.g #Q Why does she say that) and todos (e.g #TODO read this next), which distinguishes them from normal text and can be searched for. Links make it easy to organize. Vim key bindings make it pleasant typing. Has latex (mathjax) for math.