5 Principles of Digital Productivity That Keep Me Happily App-Agnostic

Why I’ll never make Obsidian’s plugins the lynchpins of my system

Ellane W
Produclivity

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Dark closeup picture of someone in a welder’s helmet (left) working on some springs and other mechanical things (right). Obsidian app logo overlaid by the Author in the lower right.
Photo by Tory Bishop on Unsplash, logo from Obsidian

Lately I’ve been thinking about my journey with Obsidian, and how it compares with my love for and commitment to a plain text mindset.

Obsidian was such a revelation to me! I’ve used it daily for over a year now. However, as my skill level grows, so does my unease with how far my setup has the potential to stray from the plain text approach that brought me here in the first place.

The Dataview plugin is mind-blowingly powerful. Templater does some crazy-helpful things. Transclusion is a super power. Oh, and three more things I wrote about last year.

The list of amazingness could go on. And on.

Before I get too carried away, this seems like a good time to check in with my guiding principles of digital productivity, a term that I’m using here to mean project and task management plus personal knowledge management (PKM).

Principles (and Pitfalls) of My Digital Productivity System

These are the principles that have guided my evolving productivity system for the past three years or so. They won’t be for everyone, but they do work for…

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Ellane W
Ellane W

Written by Ellane W

Designer and educational publisher for 30 years+. Plain-text advocate. Still using paper, but less of it. https://linktr.ee/miscellaneplans

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