I’ve been taking it slow, but I now have a Map Of Content about attributes I’d like to work on, and from there it branches out into a definition for each trait, how I can improve it, articles I’ve read etc. I then made notes about certain things I wanted to work on things like self-esteem, empathy, my ability to listen etc. I started actually by creating a Kanban board of my current goals. I haven’t been forcing things, creating notes in Obsidian as required. Longer term storage: Things like health documents, bills, instruction manuals would now be stored in ONEDRIVE.Quick Items: Things like grocery lists, recipes, home maintenance notes, guitar scales would now be in APPLE NOTES.Instead of dumping everything into Evernote, I was going to do the following. When I came back, I decided to change my mindset. I gave up on using Obsidian that way and left until a few weeks ago. Information overload and not enough dissemination of my own on the material. You could say it worked okay, but I was having the same problems. It was here that I tried to make Obsidian behave like Evernote. My first run at Obsidian a few months ago saw me import all of my Evernote data into Joplin, then export it as markdown into Obsidian. The entire thing was set up like “someday I’m going to go through all this and make sense of it”. It was so easy to save things into it I saved everything, and I rarely went back to develop ideas or even read the entire note I had saved. I actually don’t mind the new version of their app, but I came to realize I was using it as my digital hoarding area.

Evernote kanban view