A Personal Approach to Using Obsidian for Note-Taking and Knowledge Management
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Summary
The article presents a personal approach to using Obsidian, a note-taking and knowledge management application, emphasizing a bottom-up, non-dogmatic methodology. The author advocates for a 'file over app' philosophy, where digital artifacts are stored as accessible files rather than being locked into proprietary systems. The content describes using Obsidian for thinking, note-taking, writing, and publishing, embracing chaos to create emergent structure through a personal vault template.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledI use Obsidian to think, take notes, write essays, and publish this site. This is my bottom-up approach to note-taking and organizing things I am interested in.
In Obsidian, a 'vault' is simply a folder of files. This is important because it adheres to my file over app philosophy.
If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Obsidian gives you that freedom.
It embraces chaos and laziness to create emergent structure.
The following is in no way dogmatic, just one example of how you can use Obsidian.
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