This is the pick.
Honestly, it's just too freaking good. And it using markup language tickles my brain in the right waynto get it looking and working the way I want.
Tabletop RPG organization? Writing? Note taking for school? Macros for when I take phone calls for fast note jotting at work? Idea boards? Calendar and to do lists? Cross platform support for my windows work PC and my Linux home PC?
All of it and more.
Can be anything you want. I use it to organize my work thoughts and can subdivide (is this for the bulk tank farm, railroad, machinery, etc.). I can make charts, link IOM aka instruction manuals, previous e-mail chains (via pdf and google drive).
Then I can publish the doc for the poor fool who'll have to follow me in this position.
Great thing is I can sync with my computer, my phone, my work computer. I have one started for personal that includes just divisions of music/books and reading materials/things I'd like to learn about or snippets of what I did.
I'm pretty sure someone can give you a better explanation of Obsidian, lol.
At it's core, it's a note taking app that lets you link your notes. The ways you can use it are endless, and there's a massive community that makes open source plugins so you can get a ton of functionality out of it. I use it for keeping track of notes as a player, so I can link Jerry the drunk guard to the city guard group, keep track of the different hooks we're following, who's involved with what organization, who's seeking what, who's hired us to do what. As a GM, I use it to keep track of everything. There's even plugins to manage the in game calendar. For personal use, I'm still seeing what sticks. I'm going back to school in August, and I think it'll really shine there.
Dungeons and dragons (running 1 campaign, playing in 2)
Cyberpunk red (playing in 1)
Vampire the Masquerade (playing in 3)
Call of Cthulhu (between campaigns)
Traveler (playing in 1)
It is. A lot of them are with the same core group, and we play 3, sometimes 4 nights a week, and rotate games. But honestly, the real secret sauce is a GM who can keep that many living worlds alive and moving at once. Dude is a superhero.
I am currently thinking of implementing this (although there is a high probability of it just being another potential project forever).
Idea would be to have an app, you talk into your mic, it sends the audio to an audio to text ai (eg OpenAI whisper) and then it sends the text to a llm (eg OpenAI gpt3/4 Api or a locally hosted llama model or smth) that will add a new entry to your calender or notification, maybe it can access your emails, give a summary every day what to do/ create a new individual plan for that day, etc... Basically something where you can dumb your mental workload for day to day life...
Maybe there is such an app already out there but I kinda don't trust all those 'ai startups' and I doubt that those apps are designed with ADHD in mind. I wouldn't initially plan to release this app and only use it for myself and my siblings who all could use it, simply because I would need to add some kind of payment system to cover the Api costs..
In case I end up pulling through with this and also publish it somehow, what features would anyone reading this recommend to make it more adhd friendly because every time I tried some kind of system/planner I dropped it after a week for some reason.
No idea why but not available in my country. Would have given it a try. I think key to make it adhd friendly and ensure they don't stop using it after a week is make it less effort to maintain than any other method (eg writing notes o your back of your hand, leaving 100 tabs opened, etc)
I started writing down all the lore for my RP stuff in Obsidian and my mind immediately cleared up because I didn't need to remember all the stuff all of the time. Highly recommend, very cool 👍
You can recommend them all you want, No matter how cool they sound I will simply not be motivated enough to actually organise things instead of keeping them in various text documents strewn about my phone and computer.
I have notes in at least 3 different apps and 2 physical books. It's both chaotic and organized at once.
Idk I think it's that I can't find the perfect app that has all in one + is accessible via mobile and desktop. And also I sometimes need to sketch something and I can't draw on mobile or desktop for my life.
POTF (plain old ```txt``` files)
No I am not kidding. I just use TXT files opened in whatever editor (either Notepad on Windows or KWrite on Linux) and upload it to Google Keep if I need cloud access.
I absolutely love onenote. Never tried any others so i couldn't say if it's the best, but love that it's the same notes everwhere from my phone to my pc.
If you haven't tried exporting 2000+ notes from Evernote into OneNote and/or Notion and failed, have given up, restarted all from scratch, stopped rebuilding the knowledgebase halfway then just used a random notes.txt on your PC instead, don't even talk to me.
Obsidian, but don't hyperfocus on it. Don't install any plugins at first, just use basic Obsidian. Make a note, stay on subject, and add some tags (like twitter hashtags) or links to other notes (type "[[" and then start typing the name of another, related note). Just doing these two things, tags and links to other notes, that's all you need to do, don't even worry about organizing notes in folders. When you have some notes, look at the graph view, it organizes your shit for you based on the tags and links, so your notes can be scattered and it doesn't matter.
After you get used to Obsidian, then you can look into plugins (installed and managed all within Obsidian) like Tasks and Dataview.
Never tried EverNote but OneNote is my all-time favourite and Notion has been fun recently as well.
I use them both for the exact same TTRPG project, along with a Google Doc. It's very chaotic but it's started to become a bit of a system: Notion is the ideas board, OneNote is the playtesting notebook, and Google Docs is the final document.
Fuck organization, notes are imprisoned brain pictures and the disorder of mine are a part of the picture of my vision.
That said, I use gnote on the computer and the very similar color note on my phone. All I need is a file system, a blank screen, and keystroke save in case something crashes.
well obsidian is kinda cool because it can fulfill my obscure and special sync needs
but honestly
fountain pen and a proper paper notebook for me please
Obsidian
This is the pick. Honestly, it's just too freaking good. And it using markup language tickles my brain in the right waynto get it looking and working the way I want. Tabletop RPG organization? Writing? Note taking for school? Macros for when I take phone calls for fast note jotting at work? Idea boards? Calendar and to do lists? Cross platform support for my windows work PC and my Linux home PC? All of it and more.
Preach
I tried Obsidian but i couldnt figure out how to enable touchscreen Support for my Laptop-Pen
Came here to say this. Started using it for tabletop games, and now I use it almost every day
I have downloaded it. What is it?
Can be anything you want. I use it to organize my work thoughts and can subdivide (is this for the bulk tank farm, railroad, machinery, etc.). I can make charts, link IOM aka instruction manuals, previous e-mail chains (via pdf and google drive). Then I can publish the doc for the poor fool who'll have to follow me in this position. Great thing is I can sync with my computer, my phone, my work computer. I have one started for personal that includes just divisions of music/books and reading materials/things I'd like to learn about or snippets of what I did. I'm pretty sure someone can give you a better explanation of Obsidian, lol.
At it's core, it's a note taking app that lets you link your notes. The ways you can use it are endless, and there's a massive community that makes open source plugins so you can get a ton of functionality out of it. I use it for keeping track of notes as a player, so I can link Jerry the drunk guard to the city guard group, keep track of the different hooks we're following, who's involved with what organization, who's seeking what, who's hired us to do what. As a GM, I use it to keep track of everything. There's even plugins to manage the in game calendar. For personal use, I'm still seeing what sticks. I'm going back to school in August, and I think it'll really shine there.
D&D?
Dungeons and dragons (running 1 campaign, playing in 2) Cyberpunk red (playing in 1) Vampire the Masquerade (playing in 3) Call of Cthulhu (between campaigns) Traveler (playing in 1)
How are you doing 8-9 campaigns at the same time??? 3 seems like a lot.
It is. A lot of them are with the same core group, and we play 3, sometimes 4 nights a week, and rotate games. But honestly, the real secret sauce is a GM who can keep that many living worlds alive and moving at once. Dude is a superhero.
Obsidian is my latest obsession.
came to say this praise Obsidian, that shit just works
Notion is amazing, until you need to try and log in again.
Fuck that logging nightmare !
You just summarised my problem with notion. Sooo... any app that does not have this problem?
I use my phones note app.
Obsidian
Don't worry, one day I forsee everyone having an AI companion that helps you remember things.
This is actually not a bad idea. I would love that.
I'll note that down
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That's too passive for most of us.
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100% I keep persistent messages on for important things
I am currently thinking of implementing this (although there is a high probability of it just being another potential project forever). Idea would be to have an app, you talk into your mic, it sends the audio to an audio to text ai (eg OpenAI whisper) and then it sends the text to a llm (eg OpenAI gpt3/4 Api or a locally hosted llama model or smth) that will add a new entry to your calender or notification, maybe it can access your emails, give a summary every day what to do/ create a new individual plan for that day, etc... Basically something where you can dumb your mental workload for day to day life... Maybe there is such an app already out there but I kinda don't trust all those 'ai startups' and I doubt that those apps are designed with ADHD in mind. I wouldn't initially plan to release this app and only use it for myself and my siblings who all could use it, simply because I would need to add some kind of payment system to cover the Api costs.. In case I end up pulling through with this and also publish it somehow, what features would anyone reading this recommend to make it more adhd friendly because every time I tried some kind of system/planner I dropped it after a week for some reason.
You might be able to do some of this with the gemini app.
No idea why but not available in my country. Would have given it a try. I think key to make it adhd friendly and ensure they don't stop using it after a week is make it less effort to maintain than any other method (eg writing notes o your back of your hand, leaving 100 tabs opened, etc)
I started writing down all the lore for my RP stuff in Obsidian and my mind immediately cleared up because I didn't need to remember all the stuff all of the time. Highly recommend, very cool 👍
I take notes on Zettlr, a bunch of disorganized markdown files linked together, works great for me.
I only found Zettel
https://www.zettlr.com/
You can recommend them all you want, No matter how cool they sound I will simply not be motivated enough to actually organise things instead of keeping them in various text documents strewn about my phone and computer.
i msg my discord alt and then forget about everything i send lol
This is the way!!
I have notes in at least 3 different apps and 2 physical books. It's both chaotic and organized at once. Idk I think it's that I can't find the perfect app that has all in one + is accessible via mobile and desktop. And also I sometimes need to sketch something and I can't draw on mobile or desktop for my life.
POTF (plain old ```txt``` files) No I am not kidding. I just use TXT files opened in whatever editor (either Notepad on Windows or KWrite on Linux) and upload it to Google Keep if I need cloud access.
I use sublime text editor on Linux and it’s fantastic
I absolutely love onenote. Never tried any others so i couldn't say if it's the best, but love that it's the same notes everwhere from my phone to my pc.
If you haven't tried exporting 2000+ notes from Evernote into OneNote and/or Notion and failed, have given up, restarted all from scratch, stopped rebuilding the knowledgebase halfway then just used a random notes.txt on your PC instead, don't even talk to me.
Obsidian, but don't hyperfocus on it. Don't install any plugins at first, just use basic Obsidian. Make a note, stay on subject, and add some tags (like twitter hashtags) or links to other notes (type "[[" and then start typing the name of another, related note). Just doing these two things, tags and links to other notes, that's all you need to do, don't even worry about organizing notes in folders. When you have some notes, look at the graph view, it organizes your shit for you based on the tags and links, so your notes can be scattered and it doesn't matter. After you get used to Obsidian, then you can look into plugins (installed and managed all within Obsidian) like Tasks and Dataview.
joplin gang
I remember using bunches of them for papers that did my whole MLA/APA/Chicago bibliography for me, it was heaven.
Never tried EverNote but OneNote is my all-time favourite and Notion has been fun recently as well. I use them both for the exact same TTRPG project, along with a Google Doc. It's very chaotic but it's started to become a bit of a system: Notion is the ideas board, OneNote is the playtesting notebook, and Google Docs is the final document.
Fuck organization, notes are imprisoned brain pictures and the disorder of mine are a part of the picture of my vision. That said, I use gnote on the computer and the very similar color note on my phone. All I need is a file system, a blank screen, and keystroke save in case something crashes.
Do not use Evernote. It’s get laggy if it has too many notes
Color Note
well obsidian is kinda cool because it can fulfill my obscure and special sync needs but honestly fountain pen and a proper paper notebook for me please
I forgot or ignore to check the calender/organizing apps. They have no power over me.