I find the idea of owning a personal knowledge graph incredibly intriguing, but I’ve had trouble getting started. To be frank, I’m not quite sure what to include. A lot of the information that I might feel like I would want to save is also readily available via Google and can be retrieved faster by Googling than by diving into my Obsidian notes. I’m focusing primarily on personal use-cases, so nothing for business or freelancing. What do you use Obsidian for? And how much do you use it? Tens of notes per month… Or hundreds? Or even thousands?
In my case, it’s a mixture of life wiki, personal project wiki, videogame wiki, and journal (not daily, but more for a few significant days).
Like, there’s this cluster with all the people that I know, pointing to their respective communities, and who participated in which annual social gathering (which have their own articles with pictures and videos). With one (usually rather empty) article per person, I can just link to them from other relevant places.
Then there are all my (software) projects and generally intellectually interesting stuff I thought about, which I wrote down over the years (which took me a few weeks to digitalize/find/sort once I got my hands on obsidian).
In terms of video games, it’s either the knowledge/realizations I made or rough copies from some online wiki articles. Considering my internet provider is horrible and unreliable, having an offline source can be really nice sometimes.
In general, it’s really useful to support my shitty memory. Having detailed descriptions of what I’ve made or what happened just makes it easier to re-experience certain moments.
I love these examples! These use cases sound very applicable to me, so I’ll try giving them a shot
It works quite well so far. :D
And even though the graph is an interconnected mess, the clusters are still mostly distinguishable from each other. funnily enough, the video game articles blow their space out of proportion because of all the attachments. some of my video game articles tend to be asset or screenshot-heavy.
^ my vault after 10 months