Starting to organize my notes and tasks in Obsidian

 Last week I decided that as the number of notes and projects is growing, I will give a try to Obsidian. Hopefully this will make my life easier not more difficult.

I also checked whether I should go for Notion, which enables also free personal usage, but there were strong negatives for me.  First, you need all the time connection to internet with Notion as data are saved online. Second, it is too smart - e.g., suggests next words etc. using AI, which in the end is the opposite of what you want from simple and quick note taking. And it seems it could make Notion even slow. On the other hand it offers quite cool abilities to use different project manager tools and visualisations and AI might help you to make summaries or extract action points from your text. Well, Obsidian seemed to be the thing that I actually need.

First, I had to set up that it syncs between Linux and phone - Syncthing worked great, needed to add devices, connect, create same folders on both places and sync those. Afterwards I just had to set up so that the syncthing starts automatically when I boot the computer.

Second thing I installed is community plugin Tasks, that enables me to make nice overview of tasks within the vault even based on hashtags and also add due dates or priority of individual tasks. This was for me a crucial feature - so that I can have notes and within these notes distributed ideas, and tasks with different labels, that I afterwards can collect on one task page.

Finally, I made a folder structure where I have for every work project/separate task one file and possibly a folder. And I also have a folder for all Past projects. In the files I keep time ordered updates of things that happened.

Next to it, I have a daily diary report, where I link everything I did that day and make links to individual headings in given project files. It seems super cool so far and I hope I will keep to use it. Took me only 2 or 3 years to finally start with it :).

There is still a lot to do - e.g., connecting it to GitLab and managing my To read papers, but let's see, but mainly I have to learn to consistently use it :)

So this is it for now. Let's see if I will manage to maintain it.