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pervocracy
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Software that is free and has 60,000 user-created plugins and does everything, but "it does everything" does not clarify how to do any particular thing:

  • Resolve
  • Blender
  • Gimp
  • Godot
  • the reason for this post is I installed Obsidian because if you're a writer with a huge collection of mostly-text content it... does everything... 😞

oh well, it still beats the pants off software that costs $30/month and does one thing


Dex
@Dex

obsidian can do everything

if you want an RSS reader? someone has built that.
if you want a task manager? someone has built that.
calendar? someone has built that.
do you want to fill in a number on a daily journal, and then at the end of a few months, generate a chart of how you've rated your life? someone has built that as well.

the key thing for us was to start small and let things grow organically overtime - and in that respect, it's a lot easier than blender 1.
link a few places. maybe make some helpful templates. be loose with the folder structure - it's fine to have a big bucket of stuff as long as the note is well named (or aliased) so it can be easily found again, add some folders later once there's a collection of some notes that clearly go together. only go looking for plugins when there's a need or want that the base app can't provide.


  1. with that said, it is still worth learning a few hotkeys, specifically "open quick switcher", "open command palette", and "search all files" in our case.


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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

Any time I use an app like obsidian, i have to resist the urge to read guides or install plugins or do anything other than "get used to using it regularly". Otherwise, I spend all my time on "fiddling with it" and then stop using it once I get bored instead of "using it for intended purpose".

I always found GIMP pretty easy to use as a former photoshop user, but Blender 3D was totally impenetrable when you first used it. You'd open a tutorial like "How to model a simple cube" and it would be like "Press ctrl alt k to open Cube Mode before opening the 'fabrication' menu and selecting 'regular hexahedron' . . .". And any time you were like 'it seems like the UI might need some work to be accessible to new users,' everyone would be like, you actually don't get how logical and efficient this UI is. It's actually because you're bad at computers.

Then I come back ten years later and they've fixed the fucking UI! The program is now usable by regular human beings without terminal linux brain!