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Erica Xu

@_ericaxu

Co-founder of @obsdmd and @DynalistHQ

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Joined June 2013
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At some point, we could build hierarchy by typing Tab and Shift-Tab. Outliners were born. Now, we can build connections by typing [[link]]. Tools for Thought were born. When can we build structured data by typing stuff? What will be born?
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Obsidian
@obsdmd31 Aug 2023
Obsidian Properties. A simple way to add structured data to your notes: dates, tags, checkboxes, lists, even links. You can also search notes by property and value. ✨ Now available to all with Obsidian 1.4. As always, your data is stored durably and privately on your device.
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A few meta skills in cooking (excluding pâtisserie) that I'd like to improve at: 1. Fermentation, generates flavor 2. Stock making, extract flavors, primarily umami 3. Various frying batters 4. Various kind of doughs 5. Infused oils, fried and cold 6. Sauces 7. Plating
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Obsidian
@obsdmd30 May 2023
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Just made my first Obsidian plugin today. Feels pretty good.
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From a DM, just in case anyone else needs to hear this.
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Back to work.
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kepano
@kepano23 Feb 2023
The new Obsidian Publish design is now live! You can check it out by exploring the @obsdmd help site: help.obsidian.md More Publish improvements to come 😊
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You can roughly divide knowledge into "how things work" and "what happened". "How things work" is a condensed version of "what happened". Less stores, more patterns. I find it helpful to alternate between the two so one doesn't get bored.
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Don't rely on second-hand information to make judgement. Always think from first principles when you can. You might have fewer ideas, but each of them is more sound and stable than what other people tell you.
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The more owners a company has, the less human it will be. Megacorps would do things no individual would ever do. When they're owned by so many humans, they're behaving much more like a computer that solves for max profit than a human.
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Even I would think I'm reading a book that tells me why Obsidian is important, but this is just a children education book by Papert.
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I found my Hacker News submission from 2014 and loved this comment: news.ycombinator.com/item?id… Too bad I can't seem to get in contact with this person. Worse, I lost my blog. But that's ok, I have the blog post saved in my Obsidian vault.
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I have trouble describing why tabs in Obsidian are useful. It's like having to describe why chocolate chip cookies are great. It just... is?
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We naturally want to learn about extraordinary things. Tallest man on earth. Person who lived to age 120. We also naturally interested in ourselves. The high school we went to. Our favorite album in high school. This path from "me" to "wow" is self-improvement.
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Concepts are linked via knowledge, and people are linked via experiences.
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Apple has rough equivalent for Microsoft's OneNote, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. But not Microsoft Access. I wonder if it's because Access is strictly for business, which is not Apple's domain? Or for personal use, it's just hard to design database apps to be friendly enough?
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Way before Notion and Airtable, Microsoft Access was first released in 1992 (!).
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But regardless how difficult a database system is to use, I feel most people do not have that much structured data to find them worth the cost of maintaining it. Maybe for the 1-2 focused areas, but definitely not for everything.
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Connected thoughts are like magnets. They will come to you automatically, but only if you get close enough. So build connections. The more connections you have, the larger your network's surface area gets. That's how you get close to the good ones.
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