If you’ve ever felt that you don’t know how to capture your fleeting thoughts in a way that allows you to easily find them later, Obsidian might be just what you need.
It’s a light and pleasant piece of software that works on all the systems.
And it’s one of the four tools I use to produce this newsletter (a topic for another day).
One advantage it has over many other note-making apps is that it captures and saves your notes in a format (plain text files) that’s accessible even without the app.
So if it stops being supported, or becomes prohibitively expensive (it’s free now and has been as long as I’ve known it), you don’t lose all of your thinking and content – which feels like a pretty big deal.
Another cool feature is its ability to do what’s called “bi-directional linking.”
This means you can link notes together and easily see, later, which notes a note links to as well as which notes link to that note. Bi-directional linking can be helpful if you want to gather related fleeting notes to make them into something bigger in the future.
The last piece of the puzzle is Nick Milo, who has taken up the mantle of leading the rest of us boldly into the world of Obsidian and linked thinking.
His (free) Linking Your Thinking (LYT) Kit and (paid) Obsidian Flight School have provided a thoroughly enjoyable entry point for me to the world of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) and Obsidian.
Let me know if you check any of those out!
To Obsidian…and beyond,
James
P.S. Nick just launched Flight School 2.0 on Product Hunt. So if you’re a member, and you feel so inclined, please upvote it there to help it get more reach/algorithm/etc.
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