I’ve been in obsidian for over a year now and reasonably comfortable. I’ve got 9000 notes or so, I’ve migrated through from my Palm Pilot days. I ditched Evernote and so glad I did. Obsidian has me doing the daily note thing now, which I’m quite liking.
I’m working on sorting out my life and Obsidian is helping with that. I’m making connections between old and new notes, working my way around based on topics or areas of interest. What I’m finding is I’ll have done a search on some concept (word, tag, whatever) and clean it up. Later I run across something else that should have been found and connected, but wasn’t because of different words describing the similar topic or a typo/inconsistency or just far enough beside that no search would have pulled it up, but I really wish I had collected it at that first moment.
I feel like, probably because I am essentially, I’m just cleaning up a note and plunking it back down among all the other dirty ones. My vault seems like something that I’m never managing to collect ALL the related ideas together on. Digging deeper finds something more.
How do you differentiate between files that you have taken in consideration and processed/cleaned up, and files that you haven’t yet?
I also wish there was a way to better show the history in the patterns of my thought. But, that’s maybe not quite related.