I’ve been looking back at old journal entries in Day One, and posts on this blog, and it looks like I’ve been at least a bit sick every Christmas so far this decade. And this year is no exception. I’ve been having issues on and off all month. I thought I was getting better yesterday, but I had trouble sleeping last night and feel worse today. So, today, I’m in a state where I haven’t had enough sleep, my nose is stuffed up, and my stomach is bothering me.
So all that is to say that I’m not going to be very ambitious today. Rest and recuperation. Plenty of fluids. All that.
Meanwhile, I’m still working on my Obsidian setup. I’ve started watching the Obsidian Field Guide, from David Sparks. I paid for the full $99 “plus” version. That seems like a bit much, but I’ve been listening to his MPU podcast for years without supporting it, so I might as well toss some money his way.
It’s pretty good, though it’s a couple of years out of date at this point. (It was made in 2023.) For instance, he covers Dataview rather than Bases. I’ve worked my way through about half the course. I’ve found it oddly relaxing. There’s something about learning a certain kind of thing… It’s hard for me to put my finger on just what it is. Maybe it’s just that I’m not going to have to take an exam on Obsidian, like I have with the other stuff I’ve been learning this year. (See previous posts on AZ-900, AZ-204, and GH-300.) Anyway, I think I’ve going to spend some more time today working through the videos. It seems like a dumb thing to do on Christmas, but I don’t have enough energy for anything else, really, and I’d rather do this than watch TV right now.
I’m aware that, with something like Obsidian, you can go down a rabbit hole, where you’re spending so much time learning stuff and tweaking your setup, that you don’t actually get anything useful done. But I think I’ve got a pretty workable system figured out at this point, and I’m probably only a little less productive with Obsidian now than I previously was with Evernote. Hopefully, I can soon get back to the point I was at with Evernote, where I’m not thinking about the system too much, and I’m just using it effectively.