What do you write about on Obsidian?
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.
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
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 @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
@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
