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What do you use Obsidian for? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] 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 2 years ago

I started to use it as a personal journal (with the help of Templater and Periodic Notes). HUGE upgrade from trying to use wordpress as a journal 😭

But now I also use it as my central collection of notes (about programming, video games, recipes I like, really good short stories or blog posts). Pretty much anything I want to remember, find interesting, or want to learn more about later. I used to have my notes littering my desktop and cloud storage accounts but I've since moved everything into Obsidian. Recently I figured out how QuickAdd works, so now when I press ctrl + n it quickly creates a new note with today's date and time which is a lifesaver.