@mia I tried several solutions, but settled on @TiddlyWiki. Its customisability is amazing - created my own theme, and together with several plugins it serves my needs better than any other option I tried!
@mia The one area where I find Obsidian lacking is 1-tap saving of links. You can definitely save them, it's just more keystrokes/taps to get there. So I save all my links to a Notion file in real time, and then I periodically export that to markdown and overwrite the old version in Obsidian.
@mia it is weird that I write things down on paper and in random native notes softwares on whatever device I'm using at the time? Should I be more organised?
I guess I'm not outputting as much as people who need solutions for this...
@sarajw@mia This is tough for me, because I actually need information in a structured way, and I think I would benefit from it. But on the other hand, I almost never refer back to it. Or I get frustrated because the information that I thought was in the system is not in there, and using DDG to find it is much faster for me. I now have an e-Ink notebook that is great for quick thoughts.
@sarajw@mia I was thinking about getting a room divider for phase one of the home office and was dismayed by the choices. Now I‘m seriously considering a whiteboard for that. 😃
@sarajw@mia Horizontal standing, still considering size. 120 by 60 cm with two heights looks good right now. The tray for markers might double as a clothes hanger for work related HTMLZ shirts from @SteveFaulkner. 😃
@sarajw@mia My "system" is basically just a notebook, too - not even a bullet journal or something like that, just notes in whatever open space is available.
But I'm not doing research, etc, either. The vast majority of what I write down is only really useful for a few days. Anything that needs to live longer or be shared ends up in a purpose-specific system like a Confluence site or an email to stakeholders in a project
@mia Tried that as well a year ago. UX was way worse than Notion, just barely ok.
My Notion pages are often DB-like with many references. Obsidian can do this but needs a couple of plugins that are cumbersome to set up (installation + for each table). Looks meh and is no pleasure to use.
But the worst thing was syncing my files with Nextcloud. Obsidian always touches all of its files so Nextcloud tries to sync them even when unchanged. Sync conflicts galore.
@mia I pressed the brain option just to look cool. But I actually use iA Writer, it’s synced via iCloud between my devices. Not sure if I need complex trees or anything else than markdown.
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