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| Type | Practice |
| Note created | Jun 2, 2025 |
Motivation
On 2025-02-11 I finally decided that probably Obsidian was the best choice to hold all my notes. I have used Notion and even Obsidian before, but they did not work in the end because:
- An over-complicated setup made it difficult for me to stick to using my previous Obsidian vaults, as well as trying to use it to handle all my tasks and to-dos on its own made me disenchanted with the setup, and missing Notion’s database feature;
- The unfulfilled promise of a good mobile experience on Notion, as well as clunky writing experience (why can’t I use any editor depending on where I am writing?) and inherent issues to its business model (i.e. proprietary format, even exported notes are close to obfuscated).
Set up
The idea is to have:
- A new Obsidian vault, the Digital Garden, that will contain all of my notes:
- Zettelkasten-like notes, migrated from previous knowledge bases;
- Different notes on projects and work journals,
- Coding journals that can be easily edited from the terminal.
- A part of it that will be publicly available, using Obsidian Publish, to have it readily available in garden.diego.codes to share notes that can be useful to someone else.
A (hopefully) simple two-way integration with Todoist, to delegate the to-do management.
Progress
- It was relatively easy to integrate with Todoist, even if the
todoistblocks do not work once published via Obsidian Publish. Since then, I resorted to using Things for to-dos and discarded for now any kind of integration. - Obsidian Publish have been set – the vault is readily available in garden.diego.codes thanks to the defined documentation to set up Cloudflare redirections.
- Thanks to Obsidian Sync and the Widgets for Obsidian iOS app I now have a good enough set up on mobile as well.