I started using Obsidian about a year ago, and switched away from Github Issues about six months ago. So far so good. As is my habit, here's some notes on the process that will probably be more useful to me than they will be to you, but that's the nature of blogging these days to write notes to yourself mostly.
Obsidian has completely captured the "daily diary" part of my daily routine, as well as the "write down what you're going to do today before you do it", and the "take notes in wiki format". All of that is about 80% of what I need, and so it gets repeated daily use on my laptop.
Surprisingly, even though I can and do sync my laptop with my Android phone, I don't really use Obsidian much on my phone! To the extent that I do, it's for lookup rather than typing. I guess part of that is that the computer is so much faster as an input device that for any writing of any length I'd rather be at a full sized good keyboard.
When I gave up on Github Issues for daily tracking, there were 10000 issues that I had gone through, and I could tell you with some certainly how long various items had been on my todo list. And you know what, that's not a knowledge about myself that I miss having. I write things down and then I do them or don't do them. The process leaves enough of a trail that I can reconstruct my thoughts. I'm not really reporting out to anyone else the progress towards any one specific goal, so there's less unfinished business to worry about.
Is there unfinished business? Of course. It's just that's accepted as a normal course of events, and you get to things because you remember them and not because there's some Master List Of All Undone Tasks that you consult before taking on the next iteration of your day.
I love Obsidian as a daily note pad, and I really like it that I can bop around in about 1600 separate pages that are a fair capture of a year's worth of doing things and feel at least to a certain degree that it's a connected whole.
At 1600 pages a year, it's about six years when I hit the 10000 page mark. That would be a nice body of work, and by then some other system for writing will probably be available on some shiny new computer and I'll want to start over again from scratch. But until then - this is pretty nice, and I intend to keep at it. (Check back in 2027 and see if I still am thinking the same way.)
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