14 Reasons to Love Obsidian as a Note-Taking Tool for my PhD
Just a small collection of the reasons why I love Obsidian for research and maybe why you will too.
In many ways, Obsidian has become my happy place. Itās somewhere central I can collect my thoughts. I donāt have to worry whether they are isolated ideas or whether they are an expansion of something which already exists. They donāt even have to make sense at the time.
In the line of George Orwell; all thoughts are created equal, itās just some are more interesting than othersā¦
ā¦ but only at any one time.
Random thoughts might be useful and help connect something together several years down the line; I just donāt know. Or they might never surface again. All that matters is they are written down and made findable, ready for when I need them. I find it shocking how many ideas and little thoughts I completely forget.
āThe meaning of a thought, insight, or memory often isnāt immediately clear. We need to write them down, revisit them, and view them from a different perspective in order to digest what they mean to us,ā said Tiago Forte in his book āBuilding a Second Brain.
Many we need to leave a while to simmer.
Obsidian came at a time of overwhelm in my PhD. Iāve never been particularlyā¦