Exporting the .md file. I also think that for fellow Obsidian users, the bits that have functionality in Obsidian that don’t in Markdown in general might come through if they open the file in Obsidian, though I’m not 100% sure.
I know there is probably a plugin for this, as well as the official Obsidian Sync.
https://help.obsidian.md/getting-started/sync-your-notes-across-devices
Out of the options listed here, Syncthing seems to have compatibility with all of your things.
Injury is a lot easier to risk if you won’t be charged more than your entire net worth for treatment. If you haven’t experienced the misery of medical debt, and know how others live with it, it’s absolutely terrifying to think about having to live with, all because you tried to do something good.
I like to try to help others but I am selfish enough to admit I’d never run myself into debt or risk my life for someone else. I always respect those willing to do what I’m not.
I buy groceries without checking a review, try local activities without checking reviews, etc.—I’m not exactly paralyzed. But something that costs a decent chunk of money I am absolutely checking a review and I don’t think that is wrong to do. The trouble with checking reviews nowadays is how easy they are to fake, how easy it is to get a genuine negative review deleted on certain sites, how a person who has it out for a small business owner can flood them with untrue negative reviews, how often they are gamed in some way such that it does not reflect the true quality of the thing…
Conversations with strangers… I’ll be honest that’s a hard one because I’m not good at social cues and I don’t want to think I’m having a nice conversation when the other half is composing a OH MY GOD STUPID FUCKING EXTROVERTS THE WORLD HATES INTROVERTS CAN’T THEY TELL I DON’T WANT TO TALK story in their head about me (being extroverted and having autism where you suck at social cues and know you suck at social cues is not a fun combination). I learned this behavior after seeing people express annoyance about strangers talking to them. Some things are obvious, like if you’re occupied with a book, but nowadays who isn’t occupied on their phone? I have had plenty of situations where I was on my phone but would have loved if someone started conversation with me—but I might be an anomaly so I just keep following the social rule of “occupied = don’t talk”. If I’m in a space where I think someone is open to socialization I am much more likely to initiate conversation—like a party or something. I’m not afraid of “sorry, not interested,” but I am afraid of “yeah I’m cool with you” (actually no I’m not but I’ll never tell you I have a problem with you until I blow up about it 6 months later).
I like quick and easy access to 911 or a locksmith’s number in case I leave the house and lock myself out and cannot find the spare key but there are other reasons I leave the house with a phone than risk aversion/insurance for screwups I have committed before—for directions, or because it’s nice to have a thing that staves away boredom if I know I’ll probably be sitting in a line for 30 minutes, or because I have a digital wallet on there that is easier to carry around than my real wallet…
The issue with those metrics is how many other things can motivate those behaviors besides being scared of everything, or factors that make what might be an unreasonable fear for most people actually reasonable for you (for example, a phobia of bees suddenly becomes a lot more reasonable if you are deathly allergic, live near them, and aren’t good at recognizing their hives/are accident-prone), but I do get the core of what you are saying. A generation who is more anxious about basic everyday things, which is definitely not good.
Although with checking reviews specifically, I’d argue that given how many times companies lower quality, change stuff, pull the rug out from under you in the name of profit, people have more and more cause to try to verify they are getting something decent when they would not have done so in the past. The more you hear of people getting screwed over, naturally the more you’ll check to make sure you are not getting screwed too. This increased risk aversion is entirely rational in my opinion.
I just want people to be happy and to not get exploited. As far as I know, people have been exploited under both capitalism and communism. I am not sure if it’s inherent to either economic structure, if there are safe guardrails you can put on either to make them not harmful, if it’s not inherent to the economic structure and what matters is also what other government type is happening alongside that economic structure, etc. Something that really doesn’t help is that often, if you grow up with one structure, you’re also taught the other one is a virus of evil that no good human being would ever support. Well, maybe a misguided one, but nobody good and smart who thinks for themselves.
It would be nice to see a civil discussion with people actually trying to figure out which one is best and least harmful, because as an outsider looking in all I see is
“capitalism is the problem”
“no it’s not, also you’re not a free thinker”
Is everyone coming in here with some prior knowledge I don’t have? Is there somewhere where people have tried to have this civil discussion that I could look at where it stayed civil?
I do think one thing I can certainly say is that there are people who lived under communism who worked hard and tried their best and still suffered in poverty under it and wanted out. And there are people who lived under capitalism who worked hard and tried their best and still suffered in poverty under it and wanted out.
I’ll be honest, I really do not like how we’re getting hammered for our risk-aversion.
“Don’t do [risky behavior with bad consequences], otherwise [bad thing will happen]! And don’t give into peer pressure telling you you have to do [bad thing]!” is what I was taught in school and by my parents.
I listened instead of rebelling. This made sense to me, and besides a lot of the risky behaviors held no appeal for me anyways.
OMGWTFBBQ THE YOUNG GENERATION IS RISK-AVERSE :((((
I’ll keep living this way, thanks.
If they are talking about more calculated risks that we kind of need people to take, like people starting small businesses, I feel like people will always be taking that kind of risk. If they are talking about just “basic safety” risks like people not wearing seatbelts in cars, driving drunk, it’s good that that kind of risk is becoming unpopular. Whatever part of society is dependent on us taking that kind of risk can adapt or die. And if they are sad about lifestyle type risky behavior, neither good nor bad, stuff like bungee-jumping off cliffs, I have no words for older generations believing living a quiet, straight-edge life is a problem and wanting us to change that.
https://forum.obsidian.md/t/rendering-the-markdown-in-the-query-search-results/37978 has an experimental plugin doing this
So problem all solved?
From the Obsidian Discord:
PSA: Our main server was taken down by a forced reboot at 2024-08-24 3AM EST / 12AM PST. When the account server was down, our services like Sync, Publish, and account functions like login or sign up were disrupted.
Normally our services would have immediately auto-restarted, however we made a mistake in the auto-restart configuration, which meant that it did not automatically restart. I was able to start it up again manually at 8AM EST. Everything is back to normal now.
I have since located the configuration issue and fixed it so if this happens again it would be down for at most a few seconds. Apologies for the inconvenience!
Hey, thanks for the recommendations! I have never heard of Tomboy so I went and looked it up and from the images I saw on Wikipedia it definitely looks “forever ago”.
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I tried to make Obsidian handle my To-Dos, actually got me to use plugins, ended up dropping that for Apple Reminders and text messaging myself. I have since decided when I use Obsidian, it will be for things I want to keep around permanently, or until the end of a long project.
For dummies like me, Cornell NTS is just Cornell Note Taking System, which seems to include but is not exactly the same thing as Cornell Notes.
I feel you on the reorganizing and cleanup—same reason I do all my transfer manually.
Neither, what I currently do is draw it in some drawing software, export an image file from it, and embed the image in Obsidian. I have been thinking of looking into Excalidraw and Canvas thanks to how much everyone talks about it.
I checked your bio and instantly found the existence of pkm.social. How is Mastodon going for you, anyways? I double checked on my Kbin instance and the Mastodon posts (toots?) you made to @obsidianmd@lemmy.world just plain don’t appear to me unless I am on your profile. I have been considering Mastodon but I was never a Twitter user so I never made the conversion. And how is pkm.social? I like personal knowledge management, and I’m wondering if the Mastodon community for it is more active than the Threadiverse or whatever we call Lemmy and Kbin.
PTPL posts?
I also have ADHD.
When you first download Obsidian, they put you in the Obsidian Sandbox vault which is full of “how to use Obsidian” tutorials and is made for you to play around and experiment with. Read as much of it as you think is relevant to you. You can always go back to their tutorials to learn more when you need it. I find the official tutorials good enough to not need to look elsewhere for the basics on “how to use Obsidian”. It’s cool to read elsewhere for different ways to organize, but I know that I’ll end up suffering from organizational/decision paralysis so it’s better for me to just go and write. Organize later. Yes, not the best for “staying organized” but at least I’ll be writing important stuff down in an area I can use a search function on which is better than nothing at all.
Part of how I stay organized is that everything has a designated place and must always be put there when not in use. This extends to information. “Where did I put my tax returns?” “Well, you always write information of that nature down in Obsidian, use the search tool in Obsidian and search for ‘taxes’ to find the answer.”
My actual Obsidian files are not the prettiest or the most well organized, but I do manage to actually keep all information of a particular nature contained within. This helps a lot.
A few other ADHD tips:
When I put any of my physical belongings down and I don’t have a particular place they go in (so this happens less at home, but in the museum I visited for the first time and do not expect to be a regular at? I am definitely not going to have a designated spot for each item the way I do at home), they need to be physically near each other. This has cut down so much on umbrella loss for me.
Also, I am personally an Apple Reminders person. Every time I think of something that must be acted on at a particular date or time that I might forget, I put it in Reminders for that day and/or time, which is set up to send me notifications. For example, I sing in a choir and I usually do not take my music folder home after I finish rehearsal. If I decide I want to take the folder home, there is a good chance I’ll forget to do that, so I set a reminder to go off at 7:00PM, when rehearsal ends.
So how does Obsidian play into remembering information if I already use Apple Reminders? I use Obsidian for information I’ll probably forget that doesn’t have a particular date/time associated with it (like recipes I particularly liked that I don’t want to forget, or the difference between three musical terms that I always forget the difference between).
If you’re using Obsidian Publish,
Publish has an option “Show graph view” that “Display[s] a small local graph on each page.”
according to this Obsidian help thread. I can’t verify the accuracy of this because I do not use Obsidian Publish.
For just your own notes, there’s https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Graph+view.
I do not mod ObsidianMD.
However, I know that magazines on Mbin (equivalent to a community on Lemmy) come with an option to automatically tag all posts made in the magazine with a hashtag. I used to do this with a magazine I modded till the instance I was on (kbin.run) died, taking the community with it.
It’s possible the mod of ObsidianMD did the same thing with the obsidianmd hashtag. However, I see that ObsidianMD is a lemmy.world community. I’ll need to look into this more.