13 Months of an Evolving Personal Knowledge Management Project
How Obsidian became the digital version of One Notebook to Rule Them All approach to keeping me on track.
Until I turned 40, I used to keep track of my world in my head.
Something about that year shredded my ability to keep up with all the things. So, I turned to an analog Bullet Journal-like system to keep up with the project happenings at work.
Seven years later, the paper notebook stopped cutting it. In the interim, I’d retired from engineering, finished grad school, and shifted to doing most of my work online.
Even worse, the work went from a well-formed project to something amorphous I couldn’t wrap my head around. There were connections and stuff I needed to be making that wasn’t happening.
the Starting Blocks
It took a road trip to Texas and something in excess of 15 hours of the Focused Podcast to convince me to start developing my own personal knowledge management system in Obsidian.
Like so much of the stuff I do, I jumped into the deep end with no plan and only a vague idea of what I wanted out of it.
