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What do you use Obsidian for? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/obsidianmd
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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] 1 points 1 year ago

I have two vaults:

  • work - meeting notes, project notes, tasks, etc. I used Evernote for years for this purpose and dipped my toe in Notion for a while before realizing I really needed offline access.
  • personal - this is more of a mishmash of stuff. workout notes, progress on books i've been reading (sometimes I just write down what page number I got to that day and not anything more elaborate), trip ideas (with links to hotels, restaurants, etc. that sound interesting), a couple reference notes reminding me how to perform certain chores, etc.

Tbh, I don't use the graph stuff at all. And the information I record in Obsidian is generally not content I'd be able to google.