just started this blog. wanted to make this website more active. more than just my professional website environment. dunno. just bored i guess!
I've been using obsidian to write my notes lately. I used to really bash on people that used so-called "second brain" systems (I was a devout tiago forte hater. I had no reason to believe this other than spite) but now that ive been using obsidian for a while i think its really cool. I'm sorry Tiago for the one sided (and unheard and unspoken) hatred i held in my heart.
the reason ive been super into obsidian (and part of the reason im a bit emboldened to use this website more instead of just using it as a professional portal to my portfolio and resume and whatnot) is because obsidian uses markdown stored LOCALLY! I thought that was so cool. I've become so used to having websites and companies own what i create so i thought it was novel that obsidian lets me contain my own notes on my devices. Ironically im using icloud as a cloud storage solution so ive kinda thrown the main benefit out the window. but its the easiest solution for my usecase and i like apple. lame! but it's the easiest free way at the moment for me to access my notes on myphone and laptop. swell swell swell
im still trying to figure out more uses for it... right now it's mostly been a way to keep notes on lectures and podcasts and books. sometimes i keep little notes on topics of interests or do mini word dumps on it.
obsidian is quickly becoming my favorite notes platform because of the linking feature. obsidian allows you to create links within your notes to other notes, which helps me to connect my ideas and quickly traverse without having to remember what i need to search for. I can go to the topic im thinking of and quickly move between the nodes. There is a huge graph of all my ideas and notes i create. it's swell.
its helping me to learn more after college. it makes it more fun and interesting. Lately i havent been learning anything marketable... lots of chomsky and yuval harari and mental health things... but i'd like to use it to help me become a better developer. ie, learning backend tech stack stuff, so maybe i could implement a comments system on here or something. right now if you wanted to comment on here you'd have to email me or something. it isn't ideal right now. lol
anyway. that's all i have. been playing a lot of video games and reading sometimes. need to watch the new ahsoka star wars show still. my brother says its good. thanks for reading i just wanted to get my words out
sam todo list for sammartinelli.com: add comments? get off github pages? add css for the blog posts? who cares. its mostly for ME! anyway below is my current graph on obsidian aint it pretty
