<story><title>Writing down what I do in Obsidian</title><url>https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/writing-down-what-i-do-in-obsidian/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tfsh</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a useful plugin called &amp;quot;Daily Notes&amp;quot; which automatically creates a note each day with your desired template, along with the calendar plugin I have a daily chronology of everything I&amp;#x27;ve done which I deem noteworthy.&lt;p&gt;If anyones interested in Obsidian and daily journalling keep the initial ceremony low. Some people have sections for challenges, achievements, mood, emails, to-dos, etc. That&amp;#x27;ll be far too much cognitive load for anyone - keep it simple and very quickly you&amp;#x27;ll know whether you want to add or remove any of the daily ceremony.&lt;p&gt;I have a &amp;quot;Key tasks&amp;quot; where I include a mostly succinct breakdown of anything worth noting. I did this on Google Docs for 3 years before very recently moving to Obsidian and I wouldn&amp;#x27;t turn back. Tags and back links definitely help me jump between related thoughts and actions much more than grepping in a 50k+ words Google doc :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rpastuszak</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve just transitioned from Apple Notes to Obsidian and so far I&amp;#x27;m loving it. In terms of high quality free software (not nec. OSS) it feels like the same league as Blender. It&amp;#x27;s so simple and so powerful.&lt;p&gt;I use it for ad hoc notes and research (e.g. project ideas, an ML-course I&amp;#x27;m taking now, random interesting subjects beyond tech) as well as for daily journaling.&lt;p&gt;I start my day by writing in a &amp;quot;stream of consciousness&amp;quot; app I wrote for myself: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enso.sonnet.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enso.sonnet.io&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;p&gt;The format is as follows (ca. 20m each morning, 700-800 words):&lt;p&gt;- 100% unstructured description of my previous day, then&lt;p&gt;- 3-4 things I found beautiful or interesting, then&lt;p&gt;- a short TODO list for the day.&lt;p&gt;Then I just copy past the notes into my new daily note in Obsidian.&lt;p&gt;This seems to work really well for me. If I was to pick one improvement, it would be Apple Reminders treating multi-line text as separate entries when pasting. But again, it takes just a few seconds, and most of my workflow is just muscle memory at this stage.&lt;p&gt;PS. I&amp;#x27;m thinking about writing an Open AI Whisper powered transcription tool for voice notes in Obsidian. If that&amp;#x27;s something you&amp;#x27;d find useful and would be prepared to pay for, please let me know.</text></comment>
<story><title>Writing down what I do in Obsidian</title><url>https://v5.chriskrycho.com/journal/writing-down-what-i-do-in-obsidian/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tfsh</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a useful plugin called &amp;quot;Daily Notes&amp;quot; which automatically creates a note each day with your desired template, along with the calendar plugin I have a daily chronology of everything I&amp;#x27;ve done which I deem noteworthy.&lt;p&gt;If anyones interested in Obsidian and daily journalling keep the initial ceremony low. Some people have sections for challenges, achievements, mood, emails, to-dos, etc. That&amp;#x27;ll be far too much cognitive load for anyone - keep it simple and very quickly you&amp;#x27;ll know whether you want to add or remove any of the daily ceremony.&lt;p&gt;I have a &amp;quot;Key tasks&amp;quot; where I include a mostly succinct breakdown of anything worth noting. I did this on Google Docs for 3 years before very recently moving to Obsidian and I wouldn&amp;#x27;t turn back. Tags and back links definitely help me jump between related thoughts and actions much more than grepping in a 50k+ words Google doc :)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>stefandesu</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s also the &amp;quot;Periodic Notes&amp;quot; plugin which additionally allows for weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly notes.</text></comment>