Good morning (excuse my English, it’s not my first language), I am very disorganised and forgetful, I always live in a state of anxiety because if I don’t make any reminders (for this I use ‘saved message’ onTelegram) I literally forget appointments, deadlines, so: I always live under persistent stress due to the strain of keeping a lot of things in mind. Of course I own a paper agenda, but I forget to use it.
I’m looking for something that keeps in ‘his mind’ the things I should keep in mine, so that I can invest energy in other tasks.
In essence, I feel completely unstructured.
Obsidian, inevitably, intrigued me: the idea of looking at one’s brain from the outside is an enviable condition, rather than being inside the terrible tangled cage that is my brain.
I saw some tutorials, some of which are very long and some of which are super-fast. I began to think that it is not the tool, but the way one memorises and organises one’s notes (in the broadest sense) that makes the difference. I’m afraid that if one has a lot of confusion in one’s head, and is always working in a state of emergency, with the fear of having forgotten something, this is the real problem, and there is no Obsidian to help.
How could Obsidian help me? And also: is there any video or document that teaches how to learn it properly?
Thank you very much for your advice.
p.s.
Is there any possibility to sync Obsidian with laptop, mobile and tablet avoiding (for the moment, then if I start using it regularly, I’ll happily subscribe) to pay the 8$ monthly fee, also avoiding using Gdrive or any other nosy tool that overbearingly imposes its policy on users?
There are some really great answers here already that I think are perfect starting points for you. I’ll offer a bit of what I know because everyone’s experience is different.
I don’t have ADHD, but my girlfriend does. She uses Trello to keep track of her school work like assignments, due dates, class information, important links, etc. She also uses Obsidian for her research notes. Between those two and her calendar, she manages to stay pretty organized as long as she looks at them regularly. As another commenter said, having an app on your phone for quick reminders is probably a good idea too.
As for me, I like Obsidian and use two vaults for different purposes. One is for my roleplaying game notes to plan for running games of D&D and others. To organize it I use the Johnny Decimal system because it’s good at separating different projects within one space. I can look at the folder number any time I search or link a note and immediately know if I’ve got the right version of a monster or the right NPC called “Alice” for example.
My other vault is my general knowledge base for all other notes. I recently came across the work of Nick Milo and have adopted his ACE method with some tweaks to tailor it better for how I think and work. It’s a well thought out system and I am starting to see the benefits more and more.
I hope you find the systems and methods that work for you even if Obsidian doesn’t become part of your workflow!
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Nick Milo
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.