Obsidian, the Markdown editor with on plugin-assisted steroids, is useful for many things. It is good for taking notes, potentially while your read, or for use in your work, or writing. It can be good for thinking.
Another thing that Obsidian can be useful is automating processes.
Why automate processes? What is a process?
People do things. Lots of interesting things. But if you do similar things, or the same things over time you will start to notice similarities, get bored with doing the same things, and perhaps start noticing what goes wrong. This is a “process” the commonality between different tasks and your understanding of it.
What can you do with process?
Once you’ve noticed you have a process you might start to do things like thinking about it tracking it, planning it and automating it Obsidian is good this.
Manual at first but automate later
So the first thing you can do is start writing about what you are doing. Then you might start adding high-level checklists, then you might start adding lower level checklists, then you might start using templates for checklists, then you might start automating certain tasks with a little scripting in Obsidian - or perhaps there are plugins that can help you.
Hand-hold yourself while you learn to get better
The way that I think of Obsidian, note taking and journaling is partly as a method to “hold your own hand” in in written form while you get better.
I am @readwithai. I make tools in Obsidian for reading, productivity and agency. If you are interested in automating process in Obsidian you might like to look at my cookbook of cool things you can do with Obsidian and Plugin REPL. I’m also interested in helping individuals automate their workflow.
I am not affiliatd with Obsidian.