A different perspective on expression
I’ve never been the best with time management. And I feel like I’ve only become more absent-minded as I age and grow. Sick of having fun ideas and promptly forgetting them, I spent some time shopping around for a solution.
I didn’t want to keep stuffing things in Google Keep, which is fantastic for things like to-do lists but pretty meh for anything else. I’d tried Evernote way back when, but it felt too heavy. This new Notion thing sounded neat, but also seemed like it would be hard to move from; not a great investment for me. After maybe too much research, I decided to give Obsidian a try. It uses Markdown, is free unless you want their sync or publishing features, and it’s purple - all good things. But the graph and the bi-directional links were what truly hooked me.
So I begrudgingly installed Yet Another Electron App, and started writing things down. It started with ideas I’d had for personal software projects, then spread to keeping notes on various medical issues, and before I knew it I was writing tiny articles about abstract concepts just for myself.
I’m still fairly early in this experiment, but already I feel more… whole? My absent-mindedness doesn’t matter so much when I can quickly write something down, categorize it, add placeholders to fill in missing information, and trivially find it later to research or elaborate further.
I wonder what the German word for “having too many interests, concerns or preoccupations to ever keep anything straight” would be.