And as of now I have completed the cycle once again...
and I am now, in terms of the tools that I am using to organize my life at the least, exactly where I have been a year ago.
Sure, I could now pretend that I have done a thorough yearly-reflection, got deep into myself and reflected about the year gone by, but simply pressing the "Random Note" button in Obsidian had been enough to stumble into the notes and journal entries that I took then.
A year ago I had been using:
- Obsidian, for everything To Do, (Bullet-) journaling, note-taking, essentially for everything that involved typing words
- Bearblog, for the blog (even though I then still had an instance of the blog on Micro.Blog and switched back and forth between them - or course I did)
In the time since then I used:
- the Bullet Journal system in a Leuchttturm1917 book (both the "official" notebook and the normal ones)
- the Bullet Journal system in the Traveler's Notebook with a variety of inlays to test which works best
- the Bullet Journal system in the Hobonichi notebooks to "save time" as I don't have to set up any daily-/weekly-/monthly-layout
- tried to settle on a journaling system in notebooks (Leuchtturm) or the Hobonichi 5 year one
- Emacs mostly with Denote, but also tried to figure out to "optimize my workflows" in plain .txt files or even tried the .todotxt and .taskpaper thing
- tried to do the .todotxt in a "random" text-editor (here Helix)
- also tried to do the whole OBTF thing
- moved the blog from Bear/Micro.blog to Ghost
- copied/migrated/whatever notes from either of the notebooks to either Obsidian, Denote, or between any of the notebooks/journals
- ...
Needless to say that all of the above involved (and in case my recent move back to Bear still involves) a STUPID AMOUNT OF TIME to migrate, to copy/paste and of course nothing is complete in terms of a continuing timeline.
It’s mostly a mess.
And I don’t want to even think about all the hassle that involved in finding the "right pen/ink/nib-combo" to write with in either of the notebooks.
And now, I am back where I have started, with essentially two applications: Obsidian and Bearblog!
This is a simple setup that does all that I need and that I can use anywhere I want (currently typing this on an Android tablet with an external keyboard, which feels rather comfortable). It goes without saying that I could have saved a stupid amount of time and money (notebooks and pens are really expensive) to have realized this already a year ago (or at any point in the years prior that) but that would have been too easy I guess.
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