# Obsidian Retrospective - 2024-11-27 - The overwhelm of it. Too many files. Too easy to get lost. Too much misc edits. - ~5000 files - Too easy for me to go from doing something useful to not - ex. this file - 2024-06-25 - quite easy to get distracted on it (Ex. writing this note when I should be focused on the task at hand) - suggestion...maybe make specific vaults for specific things - [[nesting vaults]] - 2024-06-06 - ~4200 files (notes and other things) - I'm finding there are so many old ones that I wish I hadn't made ## 2024-05-28 - There are types of notes that are certainly not helpful - #Meta/ExampleOfContentIDoNotNeed ## 2023-02-21 - At something like 1400 notes - It has been useful though less useful than hoped - use has waxed and wane ## [[2022-09-01]] - Started Started using Obsidian in and around [[2022-07-07]]. I have been enjoying it. I have found it useful. I have found it distracting. ## What would make it more useful? - Using it and not using it at the right times - Using paper/pen for random capture ## Best demonstrated uses... - Thinking - Central store of evergreen documents ## Uses I am unsure about - longterm stuff - Usefulness for others - Putting anything in folders ## Uses that feel unhelpful - Endless documentation (creates clutter) - Fiddling with the system itself - Writing for writings sake. ## Examples of uses I have found helpful - Links - Knowing this is a central place for notes (less paper notes other places)