PTPL 227 · How I stopped Obsidian’s daily notes from messing with my head

Simple or not, what works for others might be a distraction for you I’ve been using one big text file (OBTF, or 1-N) as a capture point and scratchpad, for more than two years now. I love it! But this week I considered going back to using separate files for my daily notes. Again. They look so cute, sitting there all in a row! And they’re baked into Obsidian, so what’s the problem? Lots of people have used them for years and swear by them. And change is as good as a holiday, right? So I set up a daily note workflow. Capture from all my devices via Drafts, check. A page in Obsidian that shows all daily notes on one page as if they were one continuous file (ersatz OBTF), check. But half an hour in I stopped. It didn’t matter how sweet or OBTF-like the setup was, something wasn’t feeling right. Shifting to one big text file felt freeing. Many people do well with daily notes; I find them a gateway to distraction and unnecessary complexity. The principle here is to do what feels right to…