Love this, I recently downloaded obsidian with a very loose knowledge of its capabilities but without much understanding of how to actually use it's full potential.
I followed along a simple set up tutorial and I'm reallising I've already set out on the wrong foot for my personal goals :(.
Definitely write to think. I work in marketing so I'm constantly recalling things to reference in my work, but I can only hold so much in my working memory, and the more I learn the more I feel like I'm forgetting aswell!
But yes, I feel the same about all the things I forget, there is definitely value in keeping notes, just to remember the things we found valuable. I ended up collecting too much notes and spending too much time on that, so I try to focus on 'working with ideas' instead of 'transcribe summaries'. I avoid progressive summarize like the plague.
Love this, I recently downloaded obsidian with a very loose knowledge of its capabilities but without much understanding of how to actually use it's full potential.
I followed along a simple set up tutorial and I'm reallising I've already set out on the wrong foot for my personal goals :(.
So thank you for the outline!
Happy to have helped.
What personal goals do you have?
If it is life OS management (keeping track of meetings, and what happened), I recommend starting with interstitial journalling.
If it is 'write to think', this post for a zettelkasten system would be good. I am still writing up the thinking part but the capture system is out. https://open.substack.com/pub/creatorpreneurteststudio/p/how-i-capture-ideas-relatable-sheeps?r=7tx2m&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
Definitely write to think. I work in marketing so I'm constantly recalling things to reference in my work, but I can only hold so much in my working memory, and the more I learn the more I feel like I'm forgetting aswell!
Like the idea of a swipe file?
But yes, I feel the same about all the things I forget, there is definitely value in keeping notes, just to remember the things we found valuable. I ended up collecting too much notes and spending too much time on that, so I try to focus on 'working with ideas' instead of 'transcribe summaries'. I avoid progressive summarize like the plague.