It has been roughly 2 years since I started taking notes with obsidian. It didnt start out fast, in fact most of the notes at the beginning were AI generated and not well thought out. I was chasing the goal, and not the journey.
But around the same time I started note taking was when I really got into Typing. This was the frontier that allowed me to speak with my vault as if I was just thinking in my own head.
Since the golden 5 propertiesthen, I have gone through several “eras” of note-taking, but I think I have finally reached the pinnacle of what obsidian was meant to be: data.
Since the introduction of Bases, I felt like I was missing out on an important feature of obsidian, and that OCD itch to do something was making me very uncomfortable with how unorganized my vault was.
But once I integrated data with the Obsidian Web Clipper, it all started to make sense. Suddenly, I was able to truly view my mind like its own database, combining the best of structure from the digital world and chaos from the neural one.
In the context of youtube videos, this allowed me to track my self study with fields for which I had watched, and which I had written about ( along with providing a really neat tracker for all the data that comes with it, authors, connections, etc )
Following this, I soon adopted this practice across my entire vault. With the help of a few new plugins and python scripts for assigning properties en masse, I was able to knock it out on the plane ride from San Francisco to University Of Vermont.
As a reference, here is what my graph view looks like at this point in time (including my private notes, which is about 60% of my note volume)
