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“F**K you Obsidian, I’ve had it!”
Those were the words I yelled at my monitor a few months back.
I’d tried, I really had.
My obsession with Obsidian had lasted weeks. The user manual dominated my reading. I bought The Macsparky Field Guide and immersed myself in hours of tuition, making notes as I went. I watched YouTube videos and got lost in a forest of ‘Community Plugins’.
Yet nothing worked as I wanted it to. My work had ground to a halt.
So I called it quits …. again.
More. Time. Wasted. Pissed doesn’t cover it.
Once again, I heard that little voice in my head. Whispering a truth I didn’t want to accept.
“The tools aren’t the problem………… You are.”
Deep down I knew Obsidian didn’t suck, neither had all (most) of the other tools I’d discarded. Deep down, I knew the voice in my head wasn’t lying.
Patterns repeat. I knew what came next. I’d bury the truth once more and go searching for another too, a better tool. Next time it’d be different. Next time I’d find the Holy Grail of Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) tools and get to work at last.
