Obsidian is excellent for PKM. It hosts My Notes and works great for using the Smart Notes Standard Workflow to create Evergreen Notes and/or as part of a ”Zettelkasten”. That’s the Use Case I’ve found great success with. There are others, though.
Project Management
Like I already wrote about in this pre-existing note, it’s possible: Obsidian for Projects.
To be successful as a Project Manager:
- You’d need to make heavy use of the Dataview Plug-in
- You’d probably need to use the Daily Notes plug-in
Long-form Writing
I’m trying this out, sort of, for my Gillespedia articles.
Journaling
The daily notes plug-in is basically designed for this. It’s all local & private.
Quantified-Self-Specific Journaling
The PDW could be written around Obsidian as a Data Store. It probably wouldn’t even be terribly difficult. Siri Shortcuts can be used to automatically write new notes to your designated ‘Personal Data Warehouse’ vault. Of course this doesn’t really lend itself to analysis, but could be neat conceptually.
For-Purpose Notetaking
You can spin-up specific, siloed vaults for notes about a particular thing that don’t need to be tied outside that context. There are a few private use cases I could imagine Notion not being great for.
Taxes
You can track the files & make notes about them and how they were used.
Medical Notes
You could keep medical records, doctor’s visit Logs. Use a tag to group things by doctor and/or person.
System Modeling General Process Pre-work
A promising use case for work-related endeavors - Obsidian is not a great collaborative or “shared knowledge” tool (although perhaps it could be). But it is fantastic at accumulating, organizing, and expressing personal knowledge. This personal explanation of “how things work” could be forced into a consistent schema and then used as the basis for an Enterprise Architecture model (or simply Archimate/UML/SysML/UAF) to be built. It may be possible to build a translator that takes the contents of an Obsidian vault and translates them for import into a modeling tool. You may be able to use Obsidian Linting to assist with the cleaning.
Source
- Self