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Obsidian is a nice tool for create a knowledge base of your notes. I’m planning on making some tools to interact with PDFs using AI in a “note based ways” so obsidian seems as good a tool to use as anything. I’m not completely wedded, it would seem straight forward enough to create my own note taking interface (particular as obsidian seems to be a shallow wrapper around an open source code wrapper) but there seems to be no reason to reinvent the wheel. There are also alternative tools like log seq that is open source. I’m an old school emacs org-mode user, and I think for an experience programmer org-mode is maybe the best tool to use, but I wouldn’t necessary suggest it to new users and I want maximum reach.
I considered using Notion, but it isn’t really scriptable and I don’t really like the “centralized” philosophy of Notion.
Additionally the topic of note taking, thinking and agency. In a sense, I view note taking, thinking and reading as a single related activity. So I might make some useful tools along the way. In fact I’ve already made two tools that people might find useful: header navigation let’s you jump around headers with key bindings, repl is a tool scripting / prototyping addons for obsidian that lets you execute javascript easily within Obsidian (like you can do in emacs).
Anyway, given this interest in Obsidian I’ve decided to make a youtube short introduction to Obsidian on youtube. I quite like the idea of “passively” learning to use Obsidian and there didn’t really seem to be videos to do this.
I’m keeping an index of all the videos on medium.