I’m retired, but very interested in a lot of subjects. I started with Obsidian just to paste in Mathematics that Gemini was teaching me. I find that with AI, I can learn 10X faster than when I was in school.

But then I noticed that all the notes that I had made 3 years ago in Obsidian in 2023 were actually still there, even though I had given up on Obsidian because I managed to destroy a lot of links and break it and I thought that it was too hard for me to learn. But I decided that this time I’d read instructions and listen to others online to learn as much as I could about it. Now I see how I had misunderstood a lot of things about Obsidian because I spent about a month with it, and was deliberately learning more every day.

The main thing that I like about it is the speed. My journal at my advanced age is very important to me, and Apple Journal has a terrible search function and navigation is almost non-existent on the Mac. I was very impressed with the speed of Obsidian.

One of my main interests is the implications of Quantum Mechanics, and that’s the reason that I’m learning math as fast as I can to hopefully be able to read and understand what the real physicists are talking about. But I have many interests, and my thinking is that I can throw them all into one vault and finally be able to find and expand on things that I learn and link to other ideas.

I’m also very interested in Philosophy, especially Plato, Epictetus, and Jean Paul Sartre. Developing a personal philosophy is one of the main applications of my journal that I’ve been developing for 17 years.

I’m a Senior Citizen, but I still love learning new things, and I consider myself a lifelong learner. I don’t understand why people stop learning after they leave high school or university. I would have loved tools like the Mac and Obsidian when I was a teenager. It would have been heaven on earth.