How I use Obsidian

Last year, I switched from Notion to Obsidian as my primary notetaking tool. This post is a writeup of what that process looked like, how it has evolved, and how I use Obsidian in a philosophical sense. What Was I Doing Before ObsidianI am a very forgetful person. I have noticed this about myself, I feel a certain sort of shame about it but honestly at this point I just accept it. If something is important to me it'll be easy to remember, but I have to work at it. I have to like, make a real effort to remember. So ever since about high school I have been an avid notetaker. This comes in many forms. When I was in high school this meant I had folders on folders of just plain textfiles. I liked textfiles because they were universally readable, ridiculously small in size, and could be edited from basically any device. I was a big fan of the humble .txt file, and I still am. This continued into college, but I started supplementing my textfile notes with .doc files. When Google Docs became…