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I use Obsidian pretty regularly. I started in earnest about 6 months ago, and I've been really enjoying it. I like it because it's a wrapper around a folder of markdown files. I really my notes being just a folder of markdown files, so that's the selling point of Obsidian to me. I can open my notes in VSCode just as well as Obsidian, if I'm editing. Obsidian gives me some nice functionality (backlinks, hotkeys for different notes formats mostly, and just being a separate application from VSCode), but it could disappear tomorrow and VSCode would take over as my notes. I setup a cron job to `git add .`, `git commit`, and `git push` every day, so I have my notes in a github repo that I can pull down if I ever need to switch devices. Or if I just want to look at my notes from a device, I can just browse the Github repo. I use it for two different things: - a daily log of my work for the day, including notes of what I did, and where each branch left off. All of my "four little things to finish this jira ticket" end up in the daily log.
- notes on various personal projects. For example, if I am looking for a contractor to prune a tree I create a note for that. I put in all the contractors I'm contacting, their bids, etc, into the note. > The thing is with your brain, you don't actively spend time searching and traversing your "notes" consciously. Generally your mind brings things to be recalled just as you need it. Maybe your mind does! My mind will often come back with: "there were _definitely_ 5 little todos that you needed to do to finish the branch, and I have 3 of them here ready for you. Maybe do a `git diff` to try and remember the other 2?", or "Hey, I was looking for a contractor to prune the tree. I called three of them, I think. Maybe four. Who knows. A couple sent in bids, but I don't remember which ones. Let's check gmail and see if we can find any there?". So, personally my use of notes isn't to stop my brain trying to _come up_ with a task to complete. My notes are basically an index for when I want to resolve a task, to all the information I need to pick it up again. Or, alternatively viewed, it's the context when I put a task down, to help resume the task when I context switch back to it. |
Yep. This is why I've been enjoying Obsidian too. I've been able to organize how I want, and it works just fine... and it keeps working, without not-so-subtly forcing me into a new structure that I don't want, just to work with it more smoothly. (e.g. Notable)
On mobile I just use some other markdown app (Epsilon is marvelous for reading). Nearly every single one works great with a folder of md/cm files. If I can't even do that, just opening plain text files works fine. The lack of lock-in is wonderful.