Hack your brain with Obsidian.md

:_ferrisWhat: ERRATA - 7:32 I say "Notion" but I meant "Obsidian" - woops! - YES I am aware of Logseq - it's not up to my requirements yet, but I have been very impressed by the pace of development. The reason I'm so happy about using Obsidian, despite it being closed-source software, is that my data is in plain text, and I can move to another tool (perhaps Logseq) when they become mature enough for my needs! - [[double square brackets]] are not in the original markdown spec, but have been adopted by nearly everyone (including github) - The bold example is also italic, the nesting required to get this working from within markdown bamboozled me!

I'm busy developing note-taking software myself, this comes just in time to procrastinate doing that

As a person with ADHD, I installed Obsidian 6 months ago but still haven't used it

The only Obsidian video to actually convert me. The video itself was actually so engaging that the 12 minutes passed by in a second, perfectly paced and insanely informative!

Watching your videos feels like scraping layers of plaque off of my brain. Such a refreshing change from the needlessly padded and empty videos I’m used to

Everyone using Obsidian should also know that is has native support for Mermaid graphs. Just write a code block starting with ```mermaid and it will render as a graph. Very handy!

For real this is how all content on the web that isn't social media or straight up entertainment should work

The way you talk about things you like is addictive.

The video is as useful and streamlined as the app. As a developer I was thinking about its flaws and what could be improved and I got shut up by the fact you can modify it as you want. This app is just insane. THANK YOU for the productivity boost

I absolutely love Obsidian! I've been using it for a year now. It's absurd how long it took the industry to finally deliver a good note-taking app to us.

For anyone thinking about switching to obsidian one of my favorite features is how easy it is to add new features as you need them. You don't have to start out using every feature you can pick them up and introduce them as you go.

I was hardcore Notion user , Today morning (2024, 4, 27) I found Obsidian and I FELL IN LOVE!!!

I tried Obsidian because everyone loves it, but here is the problem I encountered with it and pretty much every other note taking app: I basically never look at any of the notes I have written ever again. I created quite a few notes and felt good in that moment about it, but now they just lay there and are completely irrelevant to me. And then it very quickly feels like a huge waste of time to take the time and write the notes if they won't be relevant later. Sure, you can never predict what will be relevant in the future and by writing everything down you are prepared, but the time investment feels too big. How do you handle that? How do you know what to write down? How are you keeping your brain alive?

I can't express how much i appreciate your videos. High quality information compressed into a objective and straight to the point manner. Nothing left to desire.

Been using it about 2 years. For creative writing it's phenomenal. Coming to and from personal projects that will never see the light of day but exist literally just as a creative outlet you can get back on board with anything really fast using the map. Truly game changing for my notes. It was sort of like how big zim wiki was for me prior to that.

Fun fact: if you put your obsidian on your free 15gb google drive account and synch that account on your desktop, putting any obsidian notes in it will synch them over the network. Very useful if you switch machines.

I want something like this, but not just as note-taking software, but a whole file system. I really want a file system with a graph structure

can we just appreciate how pretty the Obsidian UI is.... it's the sleakies i've seen of all the note softwares/platforms

I start college in a week and will 100% give this a try. I think its genius how they implement new features without completely demolishing the markdown standard.

Not even a coder myself but you’re seriously one of the best informational channels I’ve seen! Plus this got me to give Obsidian a try and now I’m in the process of porting all my notes over, thanks so much for the recommendation!