[PKM 0002] 22W48 Graph snapshot

Importing old notes

Graph changes

• Reduced clutter by removing tags, attachments, and spread out the nodes more

• Added bookmarks (purple) and TheBrain notes (black)

Vault changes

• Started importing knowledge notes from TheBrain

  • This was my primary note taker for a good 2-3 years, so I have quite a few notes.

• Started importing travel notes from Notion

  • I used this in passing. I loved how beautiful and powerful it was. However, I didn’t like the lack of privacy and also how rigid Notion is. It’s turns notetaking into a bit of a chore. Great for some people and horrible for others.

• Started using Obsidian Projects, which is similar to the unmaintained Obsidian Notion-Like Tables.

  • I’m using it to manage the content that I ultimately end up posting here.

  • I previously was using the Kanban plugin and since I had to manually move the posts it wasn’t always up-to-date.

    • Obsidian Projects also has a Kanban view which is nice. Unfortunately there’s no way to drag and drop posts… yet

• Finished Imported Bookmarks and added the bookmark type

  • I was using both FireFox and a self-hosted bookmark manager. I found that I was using FireFox as sort of an inbox manager and then my bookmark manager as a bookmark graveyard.

  • There are pros and cons to using Obsidian as a bookmark manager.

    • Pros: There is less overhead as I don’t need to maintain multiple systems and I don’t lose many features since I can still tag bookmarks and with dataview they are still going to be organized (arguably even better than before. I also have the ability to directly reference bookmarks when I am noting something.

    • Cons: I create some minor inefficiency inside Obsidian by needing to maintan a partiuclar type of note and I also am less integrated with my webbrowser. Seeing as I used Logseq and TheBrain as an customizable Digital Asset Manager the cons mean very little to me.