Articles tagged as "obsidian"

There are a ton of videos, articles, even full courses about how to configure the best note taking system. I’ve been through many of them, from Obsidian, to Logseq, to Obsidian again, and then finally resting on mdbook and vimwiki, which have now stood the test of time. If I could go back and give myself some advice, it would be to think about the note taking problem in the reverse direction. Instead of building a system and then modifying your behaviour to match it, start with how you actually use notes, and make a system that meets that need. In this post, I’ll go over some of the key considerations in building such a system, and which ones I think actually matter and which didn’t end up making an iota of a difference after having gone through so much change.

I have bounced around numerous note-taking applications, including Obsidian, Logseq, and Vimwiki. Each of them has had at least one fatal flaw that pushed me away from using it. For Logseq, it was the outliner methodology instead of just a standard page. For Obsidian it was the almost complete vim integration but that didn’t quite have everything. For Vimwiki, it was being able to read the notes on mobile. I sought a solution that would check all of these boxes.