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What;s your use case? (iusearchlinux.fyi)
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Hey folks, for our inaugural post, share what your personal use case for Obsidian is. Are you writer, student, academic, or something else?

I use Obsidian for writing/worldbuilding notes, documentation for various technical things, and a catch-all scrap paper. I'm still working on putting together a good workflow, and I could probably be utilizing it a lot better.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I have my vault on a Fedora laptop and desktop, iPhone, Android and windows desktop. It also is available online hosted in a gitlab instance

I’m an IT professional. I use obsidian for:

  • scratchpad
  • daily notes
  • writeups
  • composing emails
  • text manipulation and documentation

I would be completely scuppered without obsidian.

I’ve configured Obsidian Git for sync on all my devices, and only had a couple of merge issues.

I also use it for outstanding tasks, though they tend to get moved in to todoist pretty quickly. I just find it easier to write the tasks mid stream first while I’m thinking them