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afcool83today at 2:44 AM2 repliesview on HN

Just for context, Steph Ango is the CEO of Obsidian. His approach to notetaking in his own app made the rounds in the PKM (personal knowledge management) community for how _counterintuitive_ it was.

He eschews a lot of the common wisdom pushed by influencers in this space who tout "the one true way™" to stay organized. File splattered in the root? Sure. Unresolved links to notes that don't exist and probably never will? Why not! Blank daily notes that aren't carefully manicured journal tomes? Heck yeah.

His point is "perfect is the enemy of good." You could carefully curate and perfect your pkm...or you could have a life.


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MrDarcytoday at 3:58 AM

Half of my tasks are in my people folder and half my people are in my tasks folder and it all works out fine in Obsidian.

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kelvinjps10today at 9:12 AM

I feel like organization it's not as important now with search in computers. Like you can search anything also there is tags.

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