Obsidian Thoughts (9 months later)
Wow, seeing my old Obsidian Thoughts is so weird because I wrote that ... well, it wasn't even that long ago, it was September, and as I write this, it is May, so ... 9 months? 11 if you include the 2-month mark where I last wrote that. Probably a year retrospective might be better bahaha, but I think it's enough time and usage to reflect on (especially as my first note I ever made in here was June 2025, just shy of a year at this point).
I've uh ... definitely dropped using my Genshin Planner which I talked about in the previous post, not that it wasn't good, but I don't have the energy to upkeep updating it with new things. Maybe one day I'll return to it, cause I do love logging things for my games and this is still a project I put my time and effort into for linked pages ... but my burnout with Genshin as a game in general doesn't help much with having the motivation to work with it.
What I have been using it for is logging my learning for HTML, CSS, JS, and Unity coding (C#), and those make up the bulk of my notes ... alongside my blogging, and socmed video ideating for my friend's book accounts.
Hell, I'm writing this right now through Obsidian, though to be fair it makes it much easier to just plop this into Bear Blog and Dreamwidth through their markdown options, and now with moving my site to 11ty, it'll be easier to temporarily write pages here, then move them over if they're pure markdown pages with little HTML fanciness.
My recipe page is still very heavily used; I haven't added anything new to it (some recipes are lingering in my inbox of notes I haven't finalized to move to my main notes), but I reference it a lot for dishes I tend to make often.
Aside from that, it's become a hub for keeping headcanon posts for Sylvie (albeit I don't update it often, or like ... barely), and a bookmark log I've been writing up on Dreamwidth. I've also been trying to keep a "daily" log again ... which I mean, whenever I remember to write.
Setting up a pretty template helped with making it easier to just dump down like one highlight of the day, if I made any notable game progress, my general mood/notes through the day, and what I had to eat. Plus I can swap out my pretty dividers for funsies bahaha.
I like looking back on things, but I also struggle to be consistent with it. I think I've found a system that works for now, and having the ability to change my top/bottom dividers gives enough of a 'new' feeling to me for it to not get stale as of now (and if I end up going like 'oh I wanna write down what I ate today' then I might as well do everything else too).
(Hell, I've ever migrated my /now page into Obsidian and linked the daily notes associated with the time period between now posts; it might make it easier to write now updates if I have some daily notes to associate with it.)
I'm pretty happy with my Obsidian as it is, although not a 'daily driver' that I pop open every day 100%, or check multiple times per day, it's been integrated enough as a hub for me to know comfortably that notes of learning, thought dumps, recipes, occasional journals, and blog posts are located here, and it's where they live.
(I sorely need to empty out my inbox of half written notes though, they are ugly piling up ... and most of it is recipes I never finished migrating from web to my recipe template LOL; maybe I just need to move them into raindrop.io for when I am ready to write them out here, and some are half finished blog ideas like writing a post out about my childhood games.)
I also have this posted on Dreamwidth if you wanna comment!