Obsidian

Last updated Oct 10, 2022

• Technology

A Markdown-based note-taking app centred around keeping distinct ideas connected through identifying relationships they share with one another. Marketed as “a second brain, for you, forever”. Featuring a vault-like system for organisation with pure Markdown files, assuring that data won’t be lost if Obsidian eventually shuts down (since it’s a closed source service), it is a form of personal knowledge management.

• As much as possible, each note within Obsidian should be atomic in its own right, meaning that each page is for a specific item to talk about
• Don’t try to force yourself to think of more things for a nice graph view. The more you do it, the more you’ll eventually tire yourself out

• Pretty cool that backlinking is easy, and that relationships between notes are prioritised (described as “links being first-class citizens” by Obsidian)