Half a year ago I stumbled upon two notetaking tools of which one improved my life’s quality, so I thought I share my experience with the community. I’m not sponsored by either of these projects.
Both of these tools are powerful extendable markdown editors with a daily journal, calender function, TODO list and a knowledge base similar to a Wiki. Every page or block can be crosslinked, referenced or embedded. That way, I can keep an overview over my daily tasks with all necessary information directly accessible.
The one tool I use daily now, is Logseq. I synchronize my notes among all my devices via git. Works great under Linux, but I needed to install termux on Android. They are working on a sync service for logseq, which should make it more interesting for most users. There is one caveat though: It’s not on Google’s PlayStore, nor on f-droid.
The other similar tool, which I can recommend because it is more easily available, is Obsidian. The company also offers a sync service for premium users. I found one missing feature which is more a niche, but still a bummer: Code blocks cannot be indented.
What do you think? Do you use similar - maybe even better - note taking tools?
I just found out about obsidian while I was looking into Lemmy stuff. Do you have any resources that give a crash course on obsidian?
Hi! First Lemmy comment, please forgive any formatting issues. I’ve gone head-first into Obsidian over the past 6 months, here are some of my favorite resources:
Now, most Obsidian users and content creators have very opinionated ways of structuring what Obsidian refers to as “Vaults” (think of a Vault as a root folder). Some people follow the Zettelkasten method, others follow the ideas set-forth by Linking Your Thinking, some go with the GTD methods…I have some advice here. Try not to get tripped up on structuring things and doing everything “perfectly.”
My autism + ADHD absolutely love to sidetrack me and get me bogged down in trying to follow a method or structure perfectly. Try not to let perfect be the enemy of good enough. By writing things down and reminding yourself to consult what you’ve written, you’re already making huge accomplishments.
Best of luck!! 😁
Much appreciated! Looking forward to dive I to all of this! I appreciate the reminder at the end because I inevitably do that as well haha.
Hey welcome to Lemmy, second comment here :)
Wanted to say that I relate to the “productive procrastination” that PKM stuff like Obsidian can cause. I’m coming back to it again after Notion didn’t work for me.
If I were to give one piece of advice to new users it would be to start small! Figure out exactly what you want to achieve with the software and then try to meet those needs with as little complication as possible. There are thousands of incredible community plugins out there but don’t feel like you need to master even one to be successful.
Above all I agree with being proud of yourself for just writing things down, and accepting that your setup doesn’t have to be perfect.
Thanks again for the comment!
Please search obsidian guides on youtube, there are many, and they are fucking awesome tbh. I’m serious, the amount of available information in Obsidian is staggeringly enormous. You couldn’t read it all if you tried, or watch it all if you tried.
My favorite video makers on Obsidian from 2 years ago when I was learning the software: Nicole van der Hoeven and some other guy i can’t find :(
edit: pick a recent video with a lot of views, obsidian has changed a little bit, not too much, but i bet most of the guides out there are great to get you started
more reading material for when you’re feeling like procrastinating or something:
https://zettelkasten.de/posts/overview/
https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes
Awesome! Thank you very much!
Second guy I think is called Bryan Jenkins. Almost sure. I’m going to sleep rn tho. That guy’s guides were my background noise for a while. He’s deals with ADHD so I valued his perspective.