Newsletter Week 07 | 2021
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Hello, friends.Hope you’ve had a great week.Last week, I mentioned that I'm exploring a new tool. Let me show you what I've found.
New Frontiers 🚀👨🚀
What's going on?
OK. I probably can't answer that questions. Well, unless "too much" is an answer.
So let's narrow it down a bit.
Why am I exploring a new note-taking tool?
Great question!
And to answer it briefly:
I became afraid
. Afraid that I would somehow lose my data. My notes. My
second brain
. Thoughts I had written down.
I've always had all of my notes on Notion. And that has been fine.
But I just had this nagging feeling.
What if Notion ever goes down?
I don't know.
And that was the beginning of something new.
I set out to find a tool that would help me solve that problem.
Enter,
.
Obsidian is a tool, very much like Roam, that allows you to connect your thoughts.
And it does so
locally
. Just look at what I've managed to produce so far:
That's what I have so far. I'm nowhere near the finish line of porting over my notes.
But I'm enjoying the process.
I have a lot of thoughts on Obsidian, but I think that I'll hold off on giving those before I've experimented some more with it.
I want to write a long-form blog post about all of this. The why, the what, the how.
There's a lot to cover. I think, in the end, it's not that Notion is bad. Quite the opposite, in my opinion. I just hate the possibility of losing data - and that it's not as future-proof as I want my notes to be.
Because all of this is really just about notes and knowledge management. I want it to be there for me always.
Anyway. If you're like me; afraid that you'll ever lose your data - or access to it - then look no further than Obsidian. It's a free tool, so you have nothing to lose.
For now, I'm excited to keep exploring and sharing what I learn along the way.
"He who is looking for wisdom is already wise; and he who thinks that he has found wisdom is a stupid man."— Eastern Wisdom(from A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy)
To your success. Regards,
Christian Bager Bach Houmann