I had forgotten how trying it can be to trial new software in an established system. Obsidian was the trial and the system is my note-taking and journaling processes. Those processes are the product of a lot of previous experimentation and habit.
You can see my Obsidian journey here:
- Phone writing is more freeing than I imagined (In which I credit Obsidian with things that it doesn’t really deserve the credit for after all. I mean, autoclosing quotes aren’t really that big of a deal. :D)
- Obsidian is great, but is it for me? (I should have listened to myself when I said, “I don’t love it for my notes in general”, before I made a bunch of more notes.)
- Time to give up on Obsidian? (In which I was struggling to make a decision.)
- Second (and third) thoughts on Obsidian (In which I say, “I kind of think I’m going to stick with Obsidian after all.” Oh, how wrong I was.)
- Gemini’s ASCII Poop Story (In which Gemini presents my decision process as a poorly written story that still somehow makes me smile every time I read it.)
Obsidian wasn’t bad. It just isn’t for me. It keeps your notes in markdown files, which I love the idea of, but the execution of, not so much. Markdown files are full of formatting syntax (lots of * and _ and [ and the like) that can make a pure text file look messy.
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