{"id":11490,"date":"2026-02-28T12:30:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11490"},"modified":"2026-02-28T12:35:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T20:35:32","slug":"obsidian-md-for-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/28\/obsidian-md-for-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Obsidian.md for Notes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"https:\/\/obsidian.md\/\">Obsidian<\/a> to keep track of my life for a few weeks now and I&#8217;m very very impressed. It stays out of the way when you want it to and it has a mega-zillion features that are there when I want them.<\/p>\n<p>For me, it has replaced Notion and Dynalist, and my occasional reminders to myself. It&#8217;s on track for replacing my Google Docs notes. It&#8217;s also keeping my client list straight. If I can figure out how to get it to make my phone ring an alarm at a particular time of day, it&#8217;ll replace most of my events as well.<\/p>\n<p>I keep discovering new features and then tell myself, &#8220;Self, STOP! You don&#8217;t need that shiny bell, or that beautiful whistle.&#8221; But then the next week, I&#8217;ll be like, &#8220;Ugh, what I really need is a tool to&#8230; oh look, there it is!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If you try it, start slow. Just use the Markdown editor to keep some notes. Maybe sync it to your phone. (for $5\/month, or a more cumbersome free option), and go from there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using Obsidian to keep track of my life for a few weeks now and I&#8217;m very very impressed. It stays out of the way when you want it to and it has a mega-zillion features that are there when I want them. For me, it has replaced Notion and Dynalist, and my occasional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11493,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11490\/revisions\/11493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}