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I'll be first to mention obsidian here. I solved my overloading/losing faith in systems issue with it by using a daily template. At the bottom of which are all
by luxpir 5y ago
I'll be first to mention obsidian here. I solved my overloading/losing faith in systems issue with it by using a daily template. At the bottom of which are all the tasks in daily notes, generated by an inline script, another dynamic list of tasks for my freelance work. I could add my #ideas or #content lists too, but they are stored elsewhere. I add the #inv tag to my freelance work and that moves them to the "to invoice" list. When finally checked they disappear, but all still stored on their initial log date (all searchable, of course). So long lists of crud don't get the chance to accumulate, and ideas are easily searchable either in dynamic lists or just using search.
On the same page are mental/physical subheadings so a small bit of journalling takes place. I never look back at it, but it's there.
This beats all previous attempts at organisational systems. Obsidian has a great mobile app. Syncthing keeps them updated. Previous systems were Trello (perma loss of everything archived), big single plaintext file (soon becomes a heaving mess), paper (no search and easy for things to sink/not be surfaced). Taskwarrior, which was great for a long time, but tricky to sync and no additional features like journalling, swipe file creation, flashcards, search, mobile app (sync to cli env on Android was clunky). And surely more I'm forgetting.
Side benefits: all plaintext, whatever happens to obsidian. Graph view of all interconnected ideas. Easy resurfacing of old but relevant ideas through search and backlink sidebar. Could import my attempts at using vimwiki with zero conversion required. Much better UX than Vim. Great place to also write content, use wordcount, sprint, wordcount goal, calendar features etc.
For me the days of Vimwiki and org-mode are now numbered. Even most other note taking software tbh, for anyone OK with syncing their own stuff and figuring out a little bit of basic script syntax for the dynamic lists within the plaintext files.
- itsjloh 5y agoI'm a recent Obsidian convert, absolutely love it and its the only note taking app that I've managed to stick to past a few weeks. How do you use custom scripts in it? I'm aware you can make plugins and things for it but I'd love to be able to write up a script or two to update some shortcodes for some nice weekly stats in a few places if possible
- luxpir 5y agoThere is the full-on dataview plugin, lets you do anything in JS. I just use the tasks plugin query engine, which is plenty for me, but it sounds like you would need dataview. The forum has loads of very well developed examples.
- lupickup 5y agoI have some examples of weekly stat graphing and Rollups of in ticked todos in completed action notes in this repo: https://github.com/tot0/ObsidianPPV https://github.com/tot0/ObsidianPPV The week template in templates folder is the most fleshed out now, other time periods are WIP. It leverages customjs plug-in and the js folder in the vault for helpers. The data model implemented in this vault is August Bradley’s PPV, the reviews cycles it emphasizes really help with regular re-orientation on changing priorities and not letting stuff slip.
- ycombinete 5y agoHow long have you been using Obsidian?
- luxpir 5y agoAround 3000 hours. Not continuously.
- inferense 5y ago> At the bottom of which are all the tasks in daily notes, generated by an inline script, another dynamic list of tasks for my freelance work. Interesting, based on what do you generate these tasks? How does the dynamic list work in your use case? We're thinking about building something similar for https://acreom.com https://acreom.com as a plugin but likely easier to setup (no-code).
- luxpir 5y agoI use tags and a query to view different groups of tasks The tasks are generated as jobs come in, i.e. a checkbox line, I assigned ctrl+T to task edit, so I can add a due date. I make sure to add #freelance so it gets picked up by the query below, and displays in a list on my daily template (ctrl+shift+D for me) so whichever daily note I'm in I can see my tasks. Then I have another for jobs to invoice, adding #inv to the line manually is simple because the tasks plugin lets you click through from the list, and another for "general" todos, which does accumulate, but not in a single file. Example query (using community plugin "tasks"): ```tasks not done description includes #freelance description does not include #inv path includes journal ```