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Lou Plummer 💖<p>I am a fan of using Obsidian sync because it lets me have different settings on each device where I use the app, but I recently found out that if you use Syncthing for DIY syncing, you can omit the .obsidian folder, where all the settings are kept and get the same result. <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>
Lou Plummer 💖<p>I just did an analysis of my Obsidian Vault. I have 10, 153 total files. 6,544 are markdown files and 3,609 are attachments, mostly images downloaded as part of clipped web pages. What about you? <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>
Lou Plummer 💖<p>One benefit of Obsidian text files is that it's easy to use Python with them - especially with the help pf ChatGPT or Gemini. I've been able to use Python to turn a CSV file into 300 properly formatted Obsidian notes. Have you done anything cool with Pyton and Obsidian? <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>
Ellane ·𐑩𐑤𐑱𐑯<p>Q. What's better: digital or analog? This system or that method?</p><p>A. Yes</p><p>This week I present three tiny PKM-themed principles to follow when the thing you admire, that thing other people are successfully using or doing, isn’t working for you. </p><p><a href="https://ellanew.com/ptpl-149-2025-03-24-pkm-wisdom-to-beat-overwhelm" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ellanew.com/ptpl-149-2025-03-2</span><span class="invisible">4-pkm-wisdom-to-beat-overwhelm</span></a></p><p><a href="https://pkm.social/tags/pkm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pkm</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>productivity</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/analog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>analog</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digital</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://pkm.social/tags/obsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsidianMD</span></a></p>
Preslav Rachev<p>This was also an opportunity to test Obsidian's new Web Viewer plugin. It is so much of a smoother experience, being able to edit your text and see the effect right away. If you use something like Hugo's dev server locally, it will cause the page to re-render each time the file gets saved, so changes are near-instantaneous.</p><p>Great stuff!</p><p>—<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blogging</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/obsidianmd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsidianmd</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hugo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hugo</span></a></p>
Lou Plummer 💖<p>I'm running the Catalyst release of Obsidian mobile. It feels like that after a long period of stability, it is once again barely functional for me. It quits and restarts multiple times and syncing is extrordinarily slow. I'm on an iPhone Pro Max 15 with almost no plugins. <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>
dodothedev🦤💻<p>In anticipation of my apprenticeship/course in software development, I'm looking at note taking apps again. Used Obsidian heavily, but I think it's become too bloated. I liked and wanted to use Emacs, but it's so complicated, it's too much work (to have it sync etc). NotesNook looks good, but when I import my notes, none of the images show. Logseq do Orgmode now, so that's a strong possibility...<br>Anything else I should look at?<br><a href="https://front-end.social/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/notetaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notetaking</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/emacs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>emacs</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/logseq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>logseq</span></a> <a href="https://front-end.social/tags/notesnook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>notesnook</span></a></p>
Lou Plummer 💖<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@0xSim" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>0xSim</span></a></span> You're going to put thousands of tech journalists and YouTubers out of work if you advocate against software tips. Obsidian at Level 1 is "just notes" but many people use it for much more than that. I wrote 500K words in it during the last year. None of the DIY sync methods offer the benefits that Obsidian sync does and there are many benefits with per device plugin settings be a big one. <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>
Lou Plummer 💖<p>My #1 Tip to any Obsidian beginner is to use tags from the very first day on every note. My #2 Tip is to ignore the people who tell you not to use plugins. My 3# Tip is to use Obsidian sync anjd don't fool with DIY methods. <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>
Marc<p>How I prepare <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/pnpde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pnpde</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSR</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/OSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSE</span></a> Adventures for the table using <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/obsidianmd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsidianmd</span></a> </p><p>-= Interludium 2 =-<br>What is my personal goal....</p><p>I don't want to replace notebooks. I am a sucker for pen &amp; paper, literally. A real paper notebook and some good pens are my everyday (and night) companions. I love the haptics, it's a different kind of thinking &amp; writing.</p><p>But...</p><p>At the desk I don't want to fight tons of paper, dice, pencils etc. What I need is everything prepared, enabling me to do smooth DMing.</p>
Marc<p>How I prepare <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/ttrpg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ttrpg</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/pnpde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pnpde</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/OSR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSR</span></a> <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/OSE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSE</span></a> Adventures for the table using <a href="https://rollenspiel.social/tags/obsidianmd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>obsidianmd</span></a> </p><p>-= Interludium =-</p><p>My ObsidianMD-setup:</p><p>Theme: ITS</p><p>Editor: my eyes arend't as good as I need them so font size 18 pt</p><p>Community plugins:<br>from Jeremy Valantine<br>-- Admonition<br>-- Calendarium<br>-- Dice Roller<br>-- Fantasy Statblock (don't need them, don't ask)<br>-- Initiative Tracker<br>-- Leaflet (interactive maps are so important... to me 😄)<br>-- Second Window</p><p>and mgmeyers wonderful<br>-- Style Settings</p>
Lou Plummer 💖<p>For those using tags in Obsidian, do you use nested tags? What are your categories? I use them for software notes (i write reviews), tasks, and for specific training. That's all. You? <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾<p>Apparently there's a way to send Obsidian notes to Mastodon via a plugin called Maston Threads? Anyone used it? If it worked the way it is described this could solve some problems for me :)</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a></p>
jewelpit<p>Set up Obsidian to automatically do a tarot pull and embed the card results directly into my daily note, so I can use that as a launching pad to write my daily reflection. Nice 😎</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/tarot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tarot</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/tarotDrivenJournaling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tarotDrivenJournaling</span></a></p>
Lou Plummer 💖<p>In Obsidian, I am kind of confused by the notion that every note should link to another note. If you use tags and/or folders, it seems that would be an extra layer of complexity. Do all your notes connect? <a href="https://social.lol/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> <a href="https://social.lol/tags/PKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a></p>
Elizabeth Tai | 戴秀铃 🇲🇾<p>Found out about the Digital Garden plugin and now I am obsessed about getting my site up there </p><p><a href="https://dg-docs.ole.dev/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">dg-docs.ole.dev/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Obsidian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Obsidian</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ObsidianMD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a></p>
Magnus Hedemark<p>There’s def a learning curve to <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/obsidianmd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a>. Especially if you want to do the kinds of things I’m trying to do. It really helps a lot to have a background in tech. It really helps a lot to have prior experience with YAML and Markdown.</p><p>Dataview is one of a great many community plugins, but it’s so ridiculously powerful it should almost be considered a core feature. It has a learning curve of its own. It helps a lot if you have some SQL experience. This comes back to my mention of YAML. If you’re mindful and proactive about consistently structuring your notes, I’m finding Dataview to be an extremely powerful way to query your notes like a database. Some of my notes have no content except Dataview queries, effectively acting as dashboards to help me get a summarized view of my notes as seen through different lenses. And I feel like I’ve barely scratched the surface with it / haven’t really put in the work yet to get the most out of it.</p><p>If you’ve got <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/javascript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Javascript</span></a> background, there is also DataviewJS which is a whole other level of power. Sadly I don’t have JavaScript background so I haven’t really tapped into this yet.</p><p>I’m definitely finding <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/obsidianmd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> to have enormous potential. And there’s a lot of learning to do to get the most out of it. But I’m finding that taking the time to learn, to practice, to figure out and improve my workflow, it’s a really good investment. At some point I expect it’ll be about the same effort as the “brain dump notes” I was taking before, but with all of the benefits that come from a little structure and connective tissue in Obsidian.</p><p>There’s so much more I want to do with it in my personal life. I’m still in early iterations of how I will use it for capturing book/podcast/article/<a href="https://pompat.us/tags/blinkist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blinkist</span></a> notes. And barely scratching the surface of how to use it to augment, accelerate, and connect my various interests.</p><p>I’m also now seeing, I think, the <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/writers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writers</span></a> potential. Very <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/adhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> of me, I have these big book ideas in my head, I start writing, but then I distract myself with something else and struggle to find my footing when I come back to the writing project. I think I’m starting to see a way to prepare myself in Obsidian to start writing within a curated &amp; prepared framework, be able to walk away from it, but then return with enough cognitive context to pick it back up again.</p><p>I think I’m also seeing a path for helping my squirrel brain to break down bigger writing projects into a linear progression of smaller ones. Particularly for non-fiction content. I’ve had a really unusually successful career as an openly Autistic executive leader, and I often get feedback that there are some things I’m consistently really excellent at that most other executives really struggle with. I think that being Neurodivergent gave me an edge in figuring it out. But I also think my methods are entirely teachable and learnable.</p><p>One such area is having a moment in <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/hr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HR</span></a> circles right now. The cool kids are calling it <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/talentdensity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TalentDensity</span></a> but I figured most of this out for myself when I was trying to be a positive change agent inside of <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/unitedhealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedHealth</span></a> and seeing how many around me were so wasteful with the latent potential of their existing staff. I was able to double down on this and prove it works through outcomes at scale. And I’m getting the same positive feedback at Lark.</p><p>I feel like I’m doing the world a disservice by only sharing my learnings with my senior staff and the mentees outside of my department. I’d like to leverage Obsidian to help me get this out of my head and into a format that others can add to their professional skillset.</p><p><a href="https://pompat.us/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leadership</span></a> <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/pkm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pkm</span></a> <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/management" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>management</span></a> <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/talent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>talent</span></a> <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/selfimprovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>selfImprovement</span></a> <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/neurodiversesquad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neurodiverseSquad</span></a></p>
Magnus Hedemark<p>I’m figuring out <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/obsidianmd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObsidianMD</span></a> more and more but I’m finding there’s enough “extra work” for every meeting that I’m in that I’m not as consistent with taking notes as I was before.</p><p>Old flow:</p><ul><li>open Apple Notes</li><li>new note for every meeting</li><li>no fixed format. Mostly a bunch of bullet points. Usually was good at keeping names and dates.</li><li>discovery of past insights was not good. Capturing of action items and decisions was not effective.</li><li>But I was brain dumping enough into my notes that, given some time, I could eventually find most important things.</li></ul><p>New flow:</p><ul><li>open Obsidian</li><li>navigate to meeting notes folder and start a new note (Templater automatically gives me meeting-specific frontmatter template as well as a meeting notes specific body, which includes some handy <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/dataview" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dataview</span></a> sections to pull forward context from previous meetings in the same series.</li><li>try to find time during the meeting to fill in the front matter fields. I’m <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActuallyAutistic</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/adhd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ADHD</span></a> and find it really challenging to both engage in the meeting AND fill out my meeting notes frontmatter.</li><li>I try to capture in front matter a lot of the kind of data I want to be able to pull forward in Dataview elsewhere. So I keep things like who attended, who was absent. I try to keep major decisions there, and action items (I’m not yet consistent at this).</li><li>Free form brain dumping still happens in the body of the note.</li><li>If I have time, I’ll pull the whole note (frontmatter + body) into <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/copilot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Copilot</span></a> / <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/ollama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ollama</span></a> (locally hosted <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a>) and ask for a two sentence summary, which I then will edit/correct/improve and add back to the note’s front matter in the <code>summary:</code> attribute. This really helps to enrich a Dataview summary of all of my new notes created that day in the day’s Daily Note.</li><li>Any reference to named people gets hard linked like <code>[[Alice Brown]]</code>. I do maintain a person note for each person I work closely with that has some metadata about them like preferred contact methods, location, timezone, supervisor, direct reports, etc. And there are Dataview queries in the <code>person</code> note template to summarize context of recent interactions, decisions made with them, action items associated with them (I’m in a senior supervisory role so there’s a lot of delegation to keep track of).</li></ul><p>I need to keep working at it and figure out how to make lighter work out of keeping good meeting notes while at the same time getting the benefits out of Obsidian that I moved over for in the first place.</p><p>My work hours are very calendar/meeting centric. It’s part of being in a senior leadership role. So most of my work-related notes are currently meeting related notes.</p><p>What I’d like to do more of: I’m holding too much in my head about strategy and inputs to the strategy. This has made me a bottleneck in my own organization, where the managers under me that I’d like to empower with a greater sense of agency feel compelled to consult me for decisions they make because they aren’t holding onto enough of the big picture that I am. I’d really like to do a better job of making what’s in my head accessible, searchable, discoverable.</p><p>I don’t imagine this will mean giving anyone access to my Obsidian notes. Looking through the Tiago Forte lens, thinking of his CODE method, I really need to get more intentional and consistent about Capturing, Organizing, Distilling, and Expressing my thoughts.</p><p>At work, “Expression” would probably look like some combination of Confluence articles, staff meeting updates with memo/presentation artifacts to refer back to, “fireside chat”videos posted to our Slack and saved on our Google Drive with discoverable metadata, etc.</p><p>I’m in the classic bootstrapping paradox where I don’t have the time to do what I need so here because I haven’t done it yet. 😂 Only I can break that cycle, and I will.</p><p><a href="https://pompat.us/tags/pkm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PKM</span></a> <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/productivity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>productivity</span></a> <a href="https://pompat.us/tags/leadership" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leadership</span></a></p>

How well does @joplinapp 's Joplin Cloud sync work on mobile devices (iOS in my case)?

It wasn't great when syncing against OneDrive when I used it last, but I've been thinking about it again, since my @obsidian data gets sync'd to a US cloud, and I've been looking into moving everything out of US control for some reason. Not sure where Obsidian-the-company is based (U of Waterloo alumni though!).