Any product managers here? How do you leverage Obsidian?

[rolfaalders]

I’m a Product Owner / Product Manager. Using obsidian for nearly a year now. I love it. Before I’ve used Evernote for 5y, plain txt files for a while and Workflowy for 3y, but I love obsidian.

My work consists of shaping the long term vision, roadmap, maintaining the backlog and interact with my stakeholders.
Next to that I have quite some ad hoc questions and tasks for the current Sprint. Switching context frustrates the vibe.

I’m always looking to optimize my workflow and changed note taking a lot.

Please have a look at this topic as well:

Working with daily notes and project logs

Really interested in this myself. Tried adding work log to my daily notes but asked myself the question: why all these project details in my daily notes? Date is less relevant than content. So I started logging the notes in my project files. When taking the note I add new heading with the date in the same format as my daily note title, yyyymmdd. That way, notes appear in the unlinked backlink section, which might be useful. But this way my local graph doesn’t get cluttered with all my daily no…

Edit: link updated^

Why create a separate note for each meeting? In the past I did that as well, but I realized the meeting itself means nothing. It is all about the content. For each topic I have a note and I try to keep related stuff in there, with date stamps, which create unlinked backlinks to my daily notes.

I make use of templates quite often, to add structure and quality to my notes and thinking process, but to be honest I should make use of templates more often.

Currently I place all my to do items in a separate note called GTD, which has the headings Now, Next, Soon, Someday. Each to do has a link to the note of the topic.
I use keyboard shortcuts to move items up and down the list.

Bit of a love/hate relationship with these to do items. I feel they belong in the note of the actual topic, so that I would have the overview complete, but then it is harder to prioritize my GTD list.

Next to this I have a log file in which I add items that I want to remember which are not necessarily related to a topic note, like a Product outage, or some other interesting event.
I’ve a saved workspace with 4 panes:

1. GTD
2. Note for topic
3. Log file
4. Local graph

Whenever I need to prepare a meeting or presentation, I can browse these panels and have everything available.

This setup is quite OK for me. It is heavily customized to fit my need. I love obsidian for supporting this.
But as said, I’m always interested to further optimize my setup so I’m interested in suggestions of others.
Hopefully this may be of inspiration to you…