I've gone more and more on in Obsidian over the course of this year. It's definitely got another boost now that I'm paying for Obsidian sync, albeit that I still mildly resent what feels like a bit of duplication with other services I pay for, but: the tool is fantastic. It's exactly what I need. It's integrated smoothly with the way I work, plus changed it in a few small ways to take advantage of its other features.
One thing I love at the moment is the 'Daily Note' button, which pulls up a scratch note for that day. You can customise the titling format, location, etc.; the point is that it gives me a very transient-feeling note space for stuff that I want to jot down that day but aren't invested in the long-term filing of.
In fact, I'd go so far as to say I benefit from the implicit assumption that I won't store or access these types of notes long-term. I don't worry especially about information formatting or tagging outside of immediate needs.
I've been using this routinely for a few things:
- Some tasks or task-adjacent things. This feels odd to my brain, since I have some very developed task management systems. But these represent a different category of thing -- almost 'idle thought' tasks which I'd be happy to get done or follow up on today if I have the time, but can go 'poof' if not. Looking up specific things, chasing down recipes, whatever.
- Rough drafts of messages that require some crafting before sending, but which I don't like drafting in the relevant interface.
- Stuff I want to pass to and from my phone quickly
- Little snippets and links to maybe follow up on but also which aren't important if they get lost
- The bird omens
(I've also been contemplating Obsidian Publish as an eventual replacement for my current format of the blog. It's not something I want to drop the £ on right now, nor do I have time to explore the setup process, but if and when I transition my site off Squarespace, I'll look into that as a blog platform for these posts, assuming I'm still doing them. Everything so far is linked and tagged in my own Obsidian Vault, so should be nicely portable.
Squarespace is good for getting a decent website quickly, but represents a disproportionate ongoing expense for me these days, given my use case is so limited. I'm effectively paying long-term for features I don't use and an editor I don't use on an ongoing basis.)