A new idea for how I use Obsidian
Recently the temptation to "quit" Obsidian passed me by, mostly as a result of discovering how great Markor for Android can be. I wondered what I truly needed Obsidian for, what problem it was solving for me. I still don't think it's necessarily solving a "problem" but I appreciate the file system aspect of it and how I'm able to sync it between devices relatively smoothly.
I never got around to trying out a workflow using Markor so I stuck with Obsidian, and I've had a kind of "renaissance" with it. The short version is: I'm using it again and I've found some new personal tricks. It's been a while since I've written about a process of any sort so might as well get into it.
I've read many posts about "how to use Obsidian" recently over on /r/ObsidianMD; they're just what's surfaced in my feed, not something I've gone looking for. But the common theme in them has been what people are doing with their daily notes.
The confusion seems to be how people link to them or if they should link to them. I guess this is mostly for those who use Obsidian to create giant interlinking webs of information, but I got a little bit out of the responses, too.
One of the answers was to not thinking about linking things TO the daily notes, but rather to create links to things you think you might reference later. For example, you might write "I went for a walk with [[Joe]]"—maybe you already have a page about Joe, and it links to it; but if this is your first note about Joe, then it goes nowhere (unless you click it, and create a new note, which you don't need to do right away).
But then maybe you write another note about good ol' Joe. Let's say this time you want to create the page, so you click on it. Now, you have this page about Joe and a list of a couple of daily notes that mention him. I don't use this feature very much but it's something you can do in Obsidian. So you might click on one of the notes and see what you did with Joe or why you wrote about him.
This isn't exactly how I'm going to use this concept. What this concept drew me to was the idea of creating links to notes that don't exist yet. I decided that when I have an idea for a blog post, I would put an entry in my weekly review note [[XYZ Blog Post]] and create it from there. Now...I won't do this every time because writing on mobile is horrible. But for things like my short TV review posts it's perfect.
I just need to remember to share the reviews on the blog after writing them...