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Introduction
Welcome to Bramses' Highly Opinionated Vault 2023! Thanks for checking it out.
What you'll see in this repo is a highly opinionated and unapologetic way to use Obsidian.
Some of these techniques may be familiar to you, others may be novel due to the idiosyncracies about how my own mind works. I'll do my best to explain all of my philosophies and lived experience in the creation of this vault. You'll see things that may suprise you, and other concepts you may be deeply familiar with. Some techniques are built in to the platform. Other techniques leverage powerful external softwares to greatly enhance the Obsidian experience. I'll argue for those as they come as well as provide potential alternatives.
By following this guide and leveraging this template, I can promise that you'll be able to evolve from possibly never having used Obsidian to being up to date with the way I think about using this phenomenal software. I hope you enjoy and have fun!!
Motivation
I've been using Obsidian for well over a year and have developed many experiments, some of which succeeded and many others that have failed. I have tried to compile all the lessons from these experiences and create a vault that mirrors my up to date thinking on how Obsidian can be maximally utilized.
Philosophies
Before we get into anything practical we need to discuss the underlying philosophies powering this vault, or none of the implementations will make any sense. Most of these philosophies I've learned or adapted from great contemporary and erstwhile thinkers and authors, and the following is a reflection of both my value structure as well as my take on the works of others.
Philosophies we'll encounter along the way:
- Deep Work (Cal Newport)
- PARA (Tiago Forte)
- CODE (Tiago Forte)
- Progressive Summarization (Tiago Forte)
- Zettelkasten (Luhmann)
- Published Zettelkasten (Andy Matuschack)
- An unexamined life is not worth living (Socrates)
- Jamming (Music Production)
- AGILE (Software Development Project Management)
- Metcalfe's Law (Computer Science)
- Atticus Finch is the same in the house as he is on the public streets (To Kill a Mockingbird)
- Large Language Models and Transformers (Machine Learning)
- Automation and Scripting (Software Development)