Vivaldi had a horrible user interface. It feels like a bunch of developers got in a room together and built it. Nothing against doing that, just did not appeal to me as a polished product. Back on Arc.
My mind feels unlocked. Its only been a day since I started using Obsidian and I feel like the movie Limitless. When I let my mind ponder, jump and hop without restrictions I am discovering so many interesting and wonderful things.
What distinguishes the Knowledge Graph I am creating within obsidian, from say wikipedia is that the entities here represent my interpretation and are related to how I perceive and use the information.
I think a limitation of obsidian’s alias plugin is that it does exact word searches. I think a more powerful alternative would be allow cycling between a regular search and a regex search. This is akin to emac’s DWIM functionality.
What is the point of explicitly creating links between notes when the unlinked mentions section automatically does a good job of showing connections between notes? It seems to be that the 8020 approach here would be to thoughtfully create these entity notes.
Wondering if I can view notes that were created/modified in a given date range. This would allow me to get an overview of what I have been thinking about in a given week/month (e.g., during my monthly reviews). I can do this using the bases feature which allows you to filter based on modified time.
A nice strategy for expanding my knowledge has been to find episodes of people I discover on the internet, on the Fridman podcast. There is something engaging and intimate about listening to the human being. Often, I find that the persona they portray on the internet is not the same on the show.
The backlinking (unlinked mentions) is just a grep for the filename of the current file in all other files.
I just figured out how I would implement the linking functionality of Obsidian using unix tools. The forward linking (linked mentions) is easy enough, look for the regex pattern \[\[\(.*\)\]\] which captures the text inside wiki links and search for those file names using find.
Some notes in obsidian actually represent high level topics or entities that I frequently write about. I find that this is similar to Entity Linking which I learned about in one of my masters courses.
Writing on paper feels more creative
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