Tools: Powerful How I Use Obsidian For Everything (almost)
Posted on Feb 12
• Originally published at blog.mvaldes.dev on Feb 16
It's been almost a 2 years since I moved everything into a single little application you may have heard about, called Obsidian. The initial migration was just to move all of my wiki entries on tech stuff I'm currently learning or using like my Kubernetes/Docker/Linux notes as well as entries related to concepts like Event Driven Design, TDD or programming languages I'm learning like Go/TS/Lua/Rust.
After migrating 50 or so notes, everything was done and ready to use within Obsidian, then the Neovim itch started, soon discovered there is an amazing plugin that let's you do plenty of actions you want from within our beloved editor with the ONE BIG CAVEAT that in order to sync the data (I actually pay for Sync as a way to appreciate the dev's work) you need to open up the application which kind of defeats the purpose of running your vault from your text editor.
Which led me to an amazing realization, Neovim is good but you shouldn't do everything on it.
Repeat after me. Not everything has to be done from Neovim.
Once that pill went through my system one afternoon which led to me crying myself to sleep that day, it eventual led me organize my vault within the application which tends to make people go into the rabbit hole that is spending more time organizing your vault instead of actually using it. Not gonna lie that hole became my prison for a week or two until the whole system finally clicked as I could use some plugins from the community and the base editor, mostly bases.
Before bases the organization and finding documents experience was a bit painful as my whole structure went through several productivity frameworks, from pure GTD to PARA and even a crazy one called Johny Decimal. In the end I have a mix of the frameworks that makes putting notes into a reliable and efficient system which greatly benefits from bases that allow me to visualize and see everything in the vault dashboard.
Having a set of standardized properties into different types of notes also help with an easy vault management and use, here are some examples on some of my bases for big projects I’m tracking.
One big aspect of dumping my entire life into Obsidian was organizing my tasks, which again Bases help out a lot but it is simply not the same.
I know there are several plugins that allow you to do task management within the tool, but I feel they lack some key features which are man
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