Obsidian — Taking notes to a new level
This article is going to take a different turn than my normal ones, this one is going to cover an application that I have been using for a while to take notes. I am not one that is into the whole Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)space, I just want to take notes and jot down my thoughts so that I can find them again!
I am not a daily note taker, in fact I am a very horrible note taker. I am the one that can’t take notes during a call or meeting otherwise I totally lose the plot of why I am there. So I madly scribble/type after the call to jot down the pertinent bits and move to the next one.
I have tried quite a number of different applications to capture my notes, from OneNote (multiple times), Evernote, generic note app (think Notepad++, Atom, etc), mind-mapping tools and even physical notebooks. None of these have stuck for one reason or another.
Then I found Obsidian about two years ago and it has changed everything for me and my organization. I am not sure if it is the simplicity of the notes or the ability to link my notes together or what, but it works for me.
A Few things that set Obsidian apart
While there are likely many things that could go in the list, these are the most relevant for me.
