![]() ![]() Pruning a bit here, planting a few new seeds there, removing some dead plant over there, etc. Think of your knowledge vault like a garden that you tend to daily. And I feel like my knowledge is actually growing daily. ![]() Today I have imported all the notes I had collected over the course of my 45y/o life from OneNote, Keep, and Evernote, into Obsidian, and for the first time I'm actually finding use of information that I had stored decade's ago, once again, seeing connections between that and more recent learnings. It's a very reflective, almost meditative, bird's eye view kind of process for me when working with the graph. One plugin I find very helpful with this is the living graph plugin, which has presets for the graph view's parameters to make it easy to quickly switch to a view that allows me to "see" interesting patterns emerge. Instead I use the graph to find weird patterns of information, orphaned notes (as already explained) or simply gaze upon it in wonder. That's what I use the very powerful search function for. No, I don't use the graph to find a particular piece of information. Some are by tag, and some are by path, depending on how they are stored in my vault. I colour-code some key types of notes in the graph in a way that makes sense to me. Or, I'd realize that this is an old piece of information I no longer need in my life, and simply delete it. I'd zoom in on those orphans to see what they're about, then I'd decide whether to link them to other notes I knew of or simply integrate them via tags. There's no rush and no right way of using Obsidian.Īs for the graph view: It was really nice to visually see how my knowledge graph grew as I gradually added more and more information into the app, and it's been instrumental for me to track down bits of notes that were just floating around in my vault with no apparent connection. This time I went, and am still sticking with, the mantra of only searching for a plugin/feature in the app when I find I'm in need of a certain manner of functionality in the app, which had the effect of my knowledge of the app's features growing as I'm using it more and more. Then about a year ago I got fed-up with OneNote seemingly never being able to do exactly what I needed, plus, the wealth of information I had in there became largely useless as I'd never get to the things I stored in it again, ending up in a load of wasted storage space on my hard drive with no practical use. I got so overwhelmed with the abyss of potential functionality this app provides that I ditched it and kept going with my OneNote system. I went about the tryout of Obsidian that time in a way that I'd now describe as wrong (for me), which was to test every single feature recommended by online videos, install a whole bunch of plugins and test out how my information could fit the features. I tried Obsidian a couple years ago and at that time I was embedded into OneNote and SimpleMind Pro. It's a platform that offers many ways of use.Īs others have said, use only what you need and ignore the rest. I want a storehouse for all of that stuff together for the search, but I don't want it in the place I might use it because I might want a line or two of an entire article.Īnd I haven't done anything daily, canvas (though I will soon try this and excalidraw after Mermaid failed me) and I don't have any ties to Notion, Zettelkasten, or other systems that the organizationally advanced seem to like because my path to Obisdian was to have a text editor where I could easily make part of a heirarchy and a visual way to see that. ![]() I am starting to set up my reference Vault which will store a lot of diverse and not really directly connectable (at least yet) articles that I've pulled from the net and other places. It also shows me what areas have had a lot of work done and which are barely started.Īnd I haven't touched any drawing yet, but have been using customized callouts and hand-created tables (using CSS and HTML5 instead of Markdown). For me, the graph is helping me recognize when I need to adjust my structural aspects of the layout/structure of the presentation. And for instance, I'm creating a game rule set in an Obsidian Vault. ![]()
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