Obsidian is a free software used for creating knowledge bases based on plain text files stored locally.

Why Obsidian

• The notes consists of markdown files. Which have several benefits:
  • I can use Git to version control and have the full history of the notes.
  • If Obsidian ceases to exist I still have access to my notes.
  • Not stored in the cloud. I sync with GitHub… there it goes my argument 🤷‍♂️.
• What Obsidian does?
  • First you create a vault, consisting of a folder containing the notes.
  • Create notes with plain text and link them using a simple syntax.
  • While editing you can navigate through your notes as you do when on the Internet.
  • It automatically keeps tracks of what linked what.
  • Capable of generating a graph view of all notes and their linkage.
  • Extendable and has an phenomenal community. People have written plugins for all sort of use cases.

Plugins

• Completr
  • Helps with autocomplete.
• DataView
  • Query notes with a syntax SQL alike.
  • It powers my workouts. I don't publish those.
• Obsidian Git
  • Backups my vault to git in a fixed time interval.
• Quick Add
  • Used in combination with a button to add a workout as a note given a template.

Theme

• Things

Recommend

If you want to have a deeper view of Obsidian I recommend this series Practically Paperless with Obsidian.

Things I track on Obsidian

• All my notes
• Workout logs
  • Exercise, reps, weight, and optionally a note
  • Setup described on How I Track My Gym Workouts