bramses highly opinionated vault 2023

This is wild. I use Obsidian.. as a bunch of folders with text notes. The simplicity of the system is what works for me. But awesome to see somebody take the exact opposite…

I really like seeing how others use Obsidian. As an Obsidian user and a (neo)vim user, I think there's a lot of overlap in why you should invest just-enough-time to make it work…

Great addition! Like others, I find it helpful to review how smart people are using Obsidian and related tools to create a second brain. I know it’s popular to critique these…

This is brilliant. Thanks for this, I'm going to be looking around to see what I can steal and improve mine. I have crashed Obsidian so many times when I tried to load up…

life well lived is a series of personal obsessions shared without expectation of an audience. well done. may an audience manifest around your knowledge of knowledge.

Only did a cursory read and I love it already. I tried sharing my own thoughts a while back but it was a first pass kind of post, this is much more complete. I'll be digging into…

Hypothesis: people who use these “second brain” knowledge systems spend more time writing about using them, then actually using them. Disclaimer: I use obsidian myself

Anyone organized enough to leverage such a system doesn’t need it!

People should start using these apps as simple note-taking apps and extend/adapt them based on their needs, rather than diving head-first into these complicated methods/systems…

I think there is an ultimate unproductive productivity local minima there somewhere. I suspect if someone kept a knowledge base of productivity hacks it would tend towards…

I have to say that there is a strong ngmi energy in this kind of obsession.

This is indeed highly opinionated, but one choice in particular may block half the potential userbase — stopping to think on capture: Zettelkasten "Unique Note Creator" - Is this…

I try hard to take notes, but usually end up with a line or two. Maybe this is me, maybe the noise/information ratio of the meetings I am in - I do not know. I use and like…

Obsidian is still closed source, right? I thought they were talking about open sourcing it at some point.

>Visitors can meander around your thought garden [1], stopping to marvel at the hydrangeas, or beelining straight for the mini pagoda and water feature in the corner. What good…

Thanks for sharing! How long have you been working with it? My biggest issue these days is that many tutorials or guides seem to be written at a point where the setup is still…

Thank you, works great! Any idea how I can make this the default setting, instead of needing to set it for each vault? Looks like I am not the only one who would like that:…

i used to try to create obsidian workflows, but i found them very challenging to keep up. i used to think i wanted configuration for my note taking so I could capture all the…

I get more done in Emacs and org-mode, at this point.

This is the same advice any greybeard gives newcomers to Emacs. Just start small.

I disagree in terms of my own actual usage, after the initial excitement, but that is a real danger. That said, the most beneficial usage of my notes system has been the flat…

At one point I tried creating what is Notion/Obsidian style system in 2013. I called it "living documents". here's one of the last surviving screenshots of living documents…