Hey, thank you for your video. Just a quick question, since I dont use Obsidian that intensely yet: is that picture/gallery view around 6:47 a plugin or is it native? I have never thought about importing simple pictures of my notes, since I dont like the layout of just pasting them below each other.
You're welcome! And thanks for watching! That gallery was built using Canvas, which is a native, core plugin. I have a video about how to use Canvas here: th-cam.com/video/NqfABACJ8fs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=j595w0gdKuMZozER
Nice! What apps have you liked best so far? Another benefit of having a system made up of both a physical notebook and a digital app is I usually have one or the other or both with me, so I always have a place to jot down notes or tasks.
Once you painted the freaking bar and added all your calendar events with a pen, I stopped watching. That is already super cumbersome and no longer deserves to be called simple.
My philosophy with any productivity system is try it out, see what works and what doesn't, then modify it to fit your needs. If it just doesn't work for you, then move on to something else. If the daily plan bar doesn't work for you, then you simply omit it.
@@creadevlabs Sure, sure, but at this point "simplest" is objectively untrue, albeit interesting to watch and probably a good daily centering practice.
I personally don't find drawing the bar difficult, but that's just my opinion. I could see how drawing it every day could be seen as tedious. And if not drawing the bar makes it simpler for you, then omit it. Thank you for the feedback!
So, very nice video and explanation, your system is simple yet seems very effective. Just a question: i used for months obsidian and now i' have switched away from it due to very loooong time to load on mobile, mainly iOS (even with most plug ins turned off) and even more i encountered several crashes like if you zoom in quickly on a pdf it crash. And even more: why not using an ipad with Apple Pencil? i get that you could end up distracted, but with the right set of tools you could integrate todo, calendar and notes in a single workflow, otherwise you end up on having some todo on a physical notebook and other things to a reminder app, basically loosing things to do (as far as my experience goes). Obsidian is a very powerfull app, but has some raw edges that makes it totaly unreliable for me.
I have an iPad with an Apple Pencil, and I love them! I use them to create all the illustrations you see in my videos. I did experiment making a fully digital Bullet Journal inside of the app GoodNotes a few years back, but the distraction of having it all on my iPad was too great, so I switched back to doing a hybrid system. I seem to go through seasons with my productivity system. Sometimes I'm mostly analog with a little digital, and sometimes mostly digital with a little analog. I'm moving into a mostly analog season right now, hence this video 😁 Obsidian can be an acquired taste. There is a bit of a learning curve, which is why I've been making my Obsidian for Beginners series. Like you mentioned, there are some funky performance things it does on mobile, especially with the Canvas feature. It's not perfect, but the good things outweigh the bad for me. As mentioned in the video, when you have a hybrid system like mine the most important thing is to have a good review process so things don't slip through the cracks. And it's always good to tweak the system when you find something isn't working for you. Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
@@creadevlabs Thanks for the elaborated response, really appriciate it! For what concerns Obsidian i'm in a love/hate relationship, i was a power user, going deep with dataview and lots of other plugins, but mainly due to the perfomance issue on mobile i left it, maybe i will give it another shot in my next "season" of productivity system. I subscribed to your website newsletter, hope to see some new story/experience about this. (pls don't fall into the trap of other obsidian TH-camrs, where they bring only the most excting plugin, but they don't really test them in real life, i love the video where you bring your own deep experience, even if a little bit more "simple").
Thank you for subscribing to my newsletter! And I'm glad to hear there are others out there who like the idea of keeping things simple. I keep my use of plugins in Obsidian to a bare minimum. I had a period initially where I was trying all sorts of different plugins, and it made the thing basically unusable. I've scaled back to only a few plugins: Dataview, Tasks, and Projects. And I try to keep my use of these few plugins as simple as possible. Obsidian is such a great app by itself that I don't feel there's much that needs to be added. And not using very many plugins does help with performance. At the end of the day, I want a system that I can use in my everyday life, and those are the things I like to make videos about.
Hey, thank you for your video. Just a quick question, since I dont use Obsidian that intensely yet: is that picture/gallery view around 6:47 a plugin or is it native? I have never thought about importing simple pictures of my notes, since I dont like the layout of just pasting them below each other.
You're welcome! And thanks for watching! That gallery was built using Canvas, which is a native, core plugin. I have a video about how to use Canvas here: th-cam.com/video/NqfABACJ8fs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=j595w0gdKuMZozER
I often forgot my physical notepad and am now trying different web applications - notepad, onenote and mind system
Nice! What apps have you liked best so far?
Another benefit of having a system made up of both a physical notebook and a digital app is I usually have one or the other or both with me, so I always have a place to jot down notes or tasks.
@@creadevlabs I'd like use Xmind and OneNote
@Zmey5656 That's awesome! I'm glad you've found some tools you like 😁
Once you painted the freaking bar and added all your calendar events with a pen, I stopped watching. That is already super cumbersome and no longer deserves to be called simple.
My philosophy with any productivity system is try it out, see what works and what doesn't, then modify it to fit your needs. If it just doesn't work for you, then move on to something else.
If the daily plan bar doesn't work for you, then you simply omit it.
@@creadevlabs Sure, sure, but at this point "simplest" is objectively untrue, albeit interesting to watch and probably a good daily centering practice.
I got to 4:35 and came here to say basically the same thing. It felt like an April Fools joke.
I personally don't find drawing the bar difficult, but that's just my opinion. I could see how drawing it every day could be seen as tedious. And if not drawing the bar makes it simpler for you, then omit it.
Thank you for the feedback!
I've changed the title of the video in hopes that it'll feel less click-baity.
So, very nice video and explanation, your system is simple yet seems very effective. Just a question: i used for months obsidian and now i' have switched away from it due to very loooong time to load on mobile, mainly iOS (even with most plug ins turned off) and even more i encountered several crashes like if you zoom in quickly on a pdf it crash. And even more: why not using an ipad with Apple Pencil? i get that you could end up distracted, but with the right set of tools you could integrate todo, calendar and notes in a single workflow, otherwise you end up on having some todo on a physical notebook and other things to a reminder app, basically loosing things to do (as far as my experience goes).
Obsidian is a very powerfull app, but has some raw edges that makes it totaly unreliable for me.
I have an iPad with an Apple Pencil, and I love them! I use them to create all the illustrations you see in my videos.
I did experiment making a fully digital Bullet Journal inside of the app GoodNotes a few years back, but the distraction of having it all on my iPad was too great, so I switched back to doing a hybrid system.
I seem to go through seasons with my productivity system. Sometimes I'm mostly analog with a little digital, and sometimes mostly digital with a little analog. I'm moving into a mostly analog season right now, hence this video 😁
Obsidian can be an acquired taste. There is a bit of a learning curve, which is why I've been making my Obsidian for Beginners series. Like you mentioned, there are some funky performance things it does on mobile, especially with the Canvas feature. It's not perfect, but the good things outweigh the bad for me.
As mentioned in the video, when you have a hybrid system like mine the most important thing is to have a good review process so things don't slip through the cracks. And it's always good to tweak the system when you find something isn't working for you.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting!
@@creadevlabs Thanks for the elaborated response, really appriciate it! For what concerns Obsidian i'm in a love/hate relationship, i was a power user, going deep with dataview and lots of other plugins, but mainly due to the perfomance issue on mobile i left it, maybe i will give it another shot in my next "season" of productivity system. I subscribed to your website newsletter, hope to see some new story/experience about this.
(pls don't fall into the trap of other obsidian TH-camrs, where they bring only the most excting plugin, but they don't really test them in real life, i love the video where you bring your own deep experience, even if a little bit more "simple").
Thank you for subscribing to my newsletter! And I'm glad to hear there are others out there who like the idea of keeping things simple. I keep my use of plugins in Obsidian to a bare minimum. I had a period initially where I was trying all sorts of different plugins, and it made the thing basically unusable. I've scaled back to only a few plugins: Dataview, Tasks, and Projects. And I try to keep my use of these few plugins as simple as possible. Obsidian is such a great app by itself that I don't feel there's much that needs to be added. And not using very many plugins does help with performance.
At the end of the day, I want a system that I can use in my everyday life, and those are the things I like to make videos about.