What do you write about on Obsidian?
D&D session planning. Being able to query all my plans and notes is super handy.
@Bishma Nice it seems like a good amount of people use Obsidian for D&D
Documentation, for personal reference. Stuff I rather not reinvent down the line.
Could set up a wiki, but I like the flexible nature of Obsidian.
Notes at work. Meetings, projects, one on one conversations. I also have a template for each person I’ve met that makes it easy to see where they’re located, what company and technologies they’re related to, and links to past meetings I’ve had with them. I also use it for task management.
For your notes at work, do you create a bunch of new files for new notes? I am interested in how you do folder structure and naming.
I have a vault for general journaling, for my pathfinder 2e campaign notes, my characters (TDE, Dnd5e, Starfinder) campaign notes, and my writing project.
So… several Vaults for different aspects.
@DmMacniel So you use different Vaults instead of it all in one? How do you seem to juggle different vaults it feels hard to manage one sometimes.
Yup, different vaults since the topics don’t really intersect with each other, or rather shouldn’t. I would like if Obsidian don’t open with the latest vault open, but instead its splash screen so that I can select which Vault I want to open/work on.
@SamXavia @DmMacniel I’m happy with one vault for most things, mixing personal with business. The only times I create new vaults is for experimenting with different setups (that I don’t want to break my regular workflow), and in preparation for sharing with others.
@ellane That’s pretty much what I do, even know I have many different areas that I enjoy writing about from business to TV Shows it’s nice to see it all in one place and makes me not have to go to other vaults that I will most likely forget about.
Notes on stuff I’ve read, recipes, prose
I’ve got a couple of world building vaults kicking around.
One for a steam-punkish floating islands world and one for a pokemon-esque post-post-apocalypse world.
I use mine as a dream diary mostly. I can make links with different dreams having similar vibes and taking place in the same fictional places.
That sounds really nice. Glad you found a unique use for your Obsidian
I wouldn’t say I have any “main thing”, it’s split fairly evenly between archiving information (recipes, articles, etc.) to have everything in one place, writing down random things to avoid forgetting them, and making kanban boards for my hobby programming projects.
I don’t really write about anything much ATM, I’m adding stuff into my vault tho.
For the past few months I was focusing on adding (creating a note for each) movie, game, video, series, music, book, website, app I care about or might wanna check out in the future. Kinda like a huge DB. My end goal is to have EVERYTHING as .md files in a single vault.
I have almost 3k notes so far.I would love to see what your vault looks like and how you lay it out as I love using Obsidian as a sort of database.
Here’s a video where I “try” to show off my vault by aimlessly navigating it, lol. Feel free to skip through it.
https://youtu.be/s9zo38it4OINote: Nothing is final, I may change (and probably) will change the template, I might add new types, consolidate existing ones and more.
I’m constantly adding new objects and adding data and tags to them, but as you’ll see I barely added any real “content” to anything, I pretty much just created files for each object so far. So yeah, a lot of stuff is incomplete. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, I also made an algorithm which features random notes each day, so I never forget about stuff I care about forever (as it will be featured eventually). I can adjust how often I would like each note to be featured. Let me know if you would like to know more. The “featuring/reminder” system also has some other really neat features.Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/s9zo38it4OI
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
this is just one of many things but i like to write down game notes while i’m playing, like what i intend to do next and things i need to remember for future reference. very handy if you’re like me and juggle between games in waves, so you can always see where you left off mentally
@FIST_FILLET Nice, would love to see how you organise that as it sounds really helpful
usually they’re pretty basic but it varies a lot from game to game :) my dark souls 1 note looks something like this:
next move
- [ordered to-do list, smaller non-boss things i am currently trying to do]
latent to-do
- [list of things i want to do eventually but don’t need right now]
[checklist of bosses ordered by route]
sorry for not just slapping a screenshot in here, english is not my native language so it probably wouldn’t be very useful
@FIST_FILLET @SamXavia I just started doing this with a new Skyrim playthrough and it’s more fun than I expected. I make a new note each time I play and just keep a bulleted journal of quests/important events/decisions made
I have separate vaults.
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One for academic notes
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One that serves as a “miscellaneous personal stuff” vault that helps me remember stuff, but that nobody but me would find useful unless you were stalking me or were trying to buy a gift for me. It has a page dedicated to stuff I remembered and spent an hour+ trying to find again, so that I can find it more easily in the future; a page for rating stuff I bought at the grocery store so I remember which ones I liked and which I didn’t; a page with the locations of this or that important document like my taxes; a page with the knitting patterns I’m working on and where I last left off; a page with the exact hex codes for my favorite color… stuff like that.
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One for my creative projects: Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, notes for two games I want to make but may or may not actually bother to get off the ground…
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I use Obsidian for different purposes:
- my digital garden, handled via a plugin and GitHub
- technical writing: I work as a tech writer so I use Obsidian for research and to review my writing against a number of frameworks and style guides
- create presentations: nothing spiffy, mainly using the built-in presentation functionality
- note-taking in meetings: I take notes of everything, from screenshots to screencasts to audio. Everything is searchable through the Omnisearch plugin
I also use more than one vault:
- cooking recipes (read-only, used for reference, contains all recipes from Paprika, a recipe app)
- Microsoft Writing Style Guide (read-only, used for reference, synced from the official Microsoft GitHub repo)
- Tasks and everything synced from Readwise; I read and review books mainly for publishers so it’s super handy to keep book notes and when to publish what in the same space
- dumps from projects with a lot of text that allows me to use the vault as a kind of database
Rocks.
I have a few vaults for TTRPGs. They are structured like a wiki.
My main vault contains all my personal notes on everything excluding TTRPGs.
@SamXavia Zettelkasten-PARA-HTTSN parody. I wrote about it here:
@tomodachi94 Thank you, I’ll check out your blog post when I have some time, heard of Zettelkasten and would love to hear your take on it.
