The remaining advantages of tags over properties in Obsidian

  • Meaningful thoughts imply a commitment of time and I appreciate your time. Ditto for the devs here; they are on a thoughtful path with this wonderful tool.
  • In recent years, I’ve had opportunity to interact with a number of Waterloo folks in other areas of my life; they all have that thoughtful thing going on.
  • I recall after canvas appeared my ranting about the issues around block & section links and transclusion. But, ya know, even if properties are not given to them in core code, they work just fine; I adapted. And the simple but effective Copy Block Link functionality by mgmeyers is my most often used plugin. Like nature, another critter will fill a needed void. Maybe a tweak to this plugin will supply the solution to the FR Search: Copy context of search results and paste into note
  • Letting dust settle is warranted I reckon. That stop procrastinating video by Sam Matla gave me a tremendous lift; rich fodder in that guys head. His advice about using a project mentality has already born fruit with regard to properties. I juggle between science, music, and literary projects so applying a standard set of properties template to those notes in each project cloud makes perfect sense; there is not a perfect one size fits all frontmatter template for the whole vault.
  • I bet that property wrangler will appear; sorta has to.
  • The somewhat dated adage about normalizing data seems to apply to this topic - will we normalize at the file or block (atomic) level. Or maybe it doesn’t matter…
  • Kahneman gave us fast and slow. Dweck gave us growth and fixed. And, of course, the timeless different strokes for different folks. Obsidian, more than any other, really does fit in a neurodiverse community. I’ve learned and changed my use of Obsidian during the course of this thread.
  • Cheers!
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