The One Subscription I Am Excited About Renewing; Obsidian

Because the last year has been a blast. Where will the next one take me?

One year with Obsidian; Image created by author using canva.com

I got an email this morning to remind me my Obsidian Sync subscription was about to renew. Normally I feel anguish at renewals because well, it’s essentially another bill, isn’t it? Especially yearly ones; they always hurt a bit more.

But oddly, with this one, I felt a sense of reminiscence and satisfaction. It was a recognition of how far I had come with my knowledge journey over the past year. I was not paying because I had to, I was paying because I wanted to; I wanted to support an epic community of developers and passionate learners. So the prospect of this renewal is just a renewal of that commitment.

Obsidian doesn’t do 100% of what I need to do, but it solved 100% of my problems at the time I began my journey.

Here’s a summary of that journey over the last year and a look forward at the next.

The situation one year ago was that of information chaos

Obsidian came at a time of complete overwhelm with my life and PhD. It was information, information everywhere. I was re-reading research papers I had already read twice because I didn’t have a robust system in place for capturing notes, never mind my ideas…