If you did not read Setting Up Obsidian Part 1 you should read that first.
Just a few updates. I am now using my Daily Note as a dashboard where I don’t actually type anything. It is more of a daily table of contents. It has links to my daily journal, which is where I actually type in all my thoughts and ideas each day, it has a section linking to my daily reading, daily fitness log, and then a table of all notes created or edited that day. It is very easy to create and when I am done I will share all of it in my last part of this series.
I also added a few ways to quickly enter text into my journal. On my phone I created an action in the Drafts app that appends the entered text to the bottom of my daily journal. Drafts has long been one of my favorite apps on iOS and the Mac and finding new uses for it is always exciting. On my laptop I have a few shell scripts that let me do the same, but right from the terminal. Just type one command followed by text and I know it will be exactly where I want it to be.
Last part of this update is I have installed a plugin called Templater. It allows you to automatically format a note based on where you put the note. So you tell the plugin that when a new note is created in a certain folder you want it to use a specific template. For example, if I start a new note in my books folder, the note will be formatted with all the fields I want in a note regarding books.
One thing I have removed is tasks from Obsidian. Apps like Reminders, Todoist, Google Tasks, etc. are built for just this and do a better job so I am not forcing things.
More to come…