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Is monkrus's site no longer trustworthy? My AV blocks it due to a detected trojan. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Personal issues aside, do you have a source on their releases historically containing malware? Been a long time but I don't remember encountering any issues.

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Separation of concerns, or "Why I don't keep tasks in Obsidian" (slrpnk.net)
 

Just wanted to talk about the only separation I have in my workflow. Obsidian was a game changer for me when I discovered it a couple of years ago. Suddenly remembering and following up on thoughts was a game, and even more excitingly, a collection.

I fell off the productivity bandwagon a few months after. When I returned to the software about a month ago, the first thing I did was identify what went wrong the last time. Aside from going too crazy with community plugins towards the end, I believe my primary pain point was keeping all of my tasks readily at hand. Frequently I would write something to do in my daily note only for it to be lost and never followed up on. I would return to a note and see either a task I had completely forgotten about or a task that was later duplicated somewhere else in my vault.

This time around I have had a lot of success using a different utility specifically for tasks. This is not a Todoist sub so I won't go into detail but it's absolutely the missing piece of the puzzle. I try to minimize time from thought to writing, but this tiny bit of extra friction to categorize between "want to do" and "want to know" was a big help.

Curious on other peoples' thoughts on this! I know some people do absolutely everything in Obsidian. What has worked for you and what hasn't in terms of keeping your action items readily at hand?

Today I got rid of folders in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Great insight! This is one of those real "a-ha" moments that keeps me using Obsidian today.

One concept that backlinking and a bottom-up note structure gave me insight on was actually this exact concept of "emergence." The idea that out of a large amount of chaos, order and structure can naturally form. I've been able to connect it to everything from philosophy to mental health to natural language and it's very exciting.

I am a person with late diagnosed ADHD/autism so my life breeds chaos. The assurance that you can just write without having to worry about where the note goes is so powerful.

Nicole van der Hoeven is a great resource! If you're looking for more YouTubers, I would recommend Artem Kirsanov. He has a couple of videos on bottom-up note taking/zettelkasten, but also has some really interesting conceptual videos on how people learn and retain knowledge. He's a computational neuroscience student but he's great at being interesting and not overly dry about his explanations. My primary Obsidian resource on YouTube is Bryan Jenks. I've basically stolen most of his setup because he also has the same pain points I do (namely having terrible working memory and issues starting tasks).

Good luck and thanks for the post!

How to search for notes with empty YAML option? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

If you're using regex I'm assuming you know of utilities like Regex 101 to check your syntax.

With JS-styled regex the entire statement is enclosed in slashes. /parent:: $/ should have the desired effect here.

I second DataView for these kinds of tasks as the plugin revolves around YAML frontmatter. I have a utility note called "notes with cleanable metadata" that has a bunch of these DataView queries that update in real time.

Good luck!

What's something you learned in your job that can be used in a solarpunk lifestyle? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey there, I just wanted to say that I really like this comment. I used to work a tech-centric position at an office type job and the amount of electronic waste there was insane. Seeing a huge dumpster full of old computer parts was quite depressing. Good on you for taking matters into your own hands. I would love to do something like that if I am ever in that sort of position again. Good luck!