What a funny coincidence, I have been obsessed with learning about hand sharpening knives the last few weeks. I’ve genuinely spent more time sharpening knives than using them to cook! It’s been satisfying in and of itself to learn but I realized I wasn’t using the tools. I have since purchased fun to chop veggies so that I can test my newly sharpened knives.
Watch the Bestie Boys Story, I want a friendship like Mike D and Adam (and what they had with Adam Yauch). I've good friends but nothing like that! It's amazing to see!
I would benefit from a relationship of playing music with people that have a similar musical vision (that sounds weird!) to mine. Unfortunately, those people seem to be in Google chat-groups scattered around the world. I am grateful to have them, because they are just as passionate about music as myself.
Getting together to actually play with them, is another story.
I've always loved the idea of a mentoring relationship. One day I might be the mentor, but I'd love someone to mentor me as I look down the barrel of my late 20s and navigate finishing my formal education, finding a new job, possibly settling down with marriage/a house/kids. I suppose I find a version of a mentor/mentee relationship in therapy and asking older/more experienced people at work or in the university their perspective which sure helps.
I found the same thing. At the start of the PhD, I was obsessed by the idea of finding the best notetaking software I could because I was deathly afraid of something happening to my handwritten notes. Most of the people I spoke to did their PhDs taking notes in MS word, but venturing into the PKM space, I found Obsidian. I gave it a go for a few months but ultimately decided it was more of a stress to me to learn markdown and that was taking away from me doing some actual thinking. In the end, I settled on OneNote, something that's a bit more aesthetic than Word, but I don't have to upskill to use. I've continued taking notes on paper when I want to, and using the time it takes to type them up helps me to review the material and make connections.
I use both SimpleNote and Obsidian and for me they have distinctly different use cases. I don't love the Obsidian mobile experience, it feels laggy and cumbersome. SimpleNote is great as a quick capture tool on my phone because its so light and snappy. I periodically (typically weekly) transfer the more meaningful things from SimpleNote into Obsidian. You have nailed the biggest potential hazard to Obsidian. It's infinitely customizable and just begs to be customized. It's easy to fall into the trap of work on your notes rather than in them. Happy trails!
What a funny coincidence, I have been obsessed with learning about hand sharpening knives the last few weeks. I’ve genuinely spent more time sharpening knives than using them to cook! It’s been satisfying in and of itself to learn but I realized I wasn’t using the tools. I have since purchased fun to chop veggies so that I can test my newly sharpened knives.
Watch the Bestie Boys Story, I want a friendship like Mike D and Adam (and what they had with Adam Yauch). I've good friends but nothing like that! It's amazing to see!
I would benefit from a relationship of playing music with people that have a similar musical vision (that sounds weird!) to mine. Unfortunately, those people seem to be in Google chat-groups scattered around the world. I am grateful to have them, because they are just as passionate about music as myself.
Getting together to actually play with them, is another story.
I've always loved the idea of a mentoring relationship. One day I might be the mentor, but I'd love someone to mentor me as I look down the barrel of my late 20s and navigate finishing my formal education, finding a new job, possibly settling down with marriage/a house/kids. I suppose I find a version of a mentor/mentee relationship in therapy and asking older/more experienced people at work or in the university their perspective which sure helps.
I found the same thing. At the start of the PhD, I was obsessed by the idea of finding the best notetaking software I could because I was deathly afraid of something happening to my handwritten notes. Most of the people I spoke to did their PhDs taking notes in MS word, but venturing into the PKM space, I found Obsidian. I gave it a go for a few months but ultimately decided it was more of a stress to me to learn markdown and that was taking away from me doing some actual thinking. In the end, I settled on OneNote, something that's a bit more aesthetic than Word, but I don't have to upskill to use. I've continued taking notes on paper when I want to, and using the time it takes to type them up helps me to review the material and make connections.
I use both SimpleNote and Obsidian and for me they have distinctly different use cases. I don't love the Obsidian mobile experience, it feels laggy and cumbersome. SimpleNote is great as a quick capture tool on my phone because its so light and snappy. I periodically (typically weekly) transfer the more meaningful things from SimpleNote into Obsidian. You have nailed the biggest potential hazard to Obsidian. It's infinitely customizable and just begs to be customized. It's easy to fall into the trap of work on your notes rather than in them. Happy trails!