This is another experiment as part of my new obsidian vault:
Which basically adapts the ideas of William Hern, Jeff Huang and PTPL of having a single text file for everything. However, the benefit with using Obsidian specifically is that it can link to different notes.
This text file acts as my
So far I've primarily used the following points.
My most related bullet-points for feelings
- đĄ for any kinds of thoughts and reflections
- âŦī¸ for a positive thought/reflection
- âŦī¸ for a negative reflection/thought
- â For any kind of questions
- â for any kind of major event in the day.
- đ° for tracking expenditures, which also go to the list of things I own
[!NOTE]+ My most common tasks-related bullet poitns
đ¤ For anything that is a task at a later date -- which can be referenced in the future either through headers like tasks plugin.
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Scheduling - for anything that has been put into my calendar or external thing. This kind of overlaps with the tasks plugin because I use GIST
On the other hand, because it's all in the same document -- it also acts as a Done-list
It also acts as my todo-list. Different and actions per task can be defined either by linking between notes, Direct URI's or just as different task types.
A few other benefits I've noticed:
- Because everything is in the same file, including done and undone tasks this week I have a decent sense of what's been done.
- If I come to the point where I wanted to pick up the habit of doing a monthly review, I can easily go over all the days of the week and their events and tasks (done and undone). I also skip all of the annoying, convoluted-ass templates out there.
- An issue with both tasks and journal entires into the same {{date}}-header is that they become clumped up together. The solution: Append tasks to the bottom of the header and journal entries to the top (or vice versa if you prefer it). This essentially creates
- Your latest thought at the top
- Your FIRST to-do of the day in the middle, and your l