Ariel Balter Obsidian

Key Uses

• To-Do lists
• Track multiple projects
• Maintain lists (such as materials needed for projects, information needed, etc.)
• Calendar
• Personal notes
• Research notes
• Research ideas
• Research writing
• Directional linking rather than just default wiki linking

Key Functions

• Visualize dependencies between tasks and projects
• Visualize timelines of tasks and projects if there are due dates
• Calendar
  • I currently have two google calendars. I'm trying to fix that.
  • I will probably at some point have a single google calendar and an Outlook calendar.
• Sync with kindle highlights and annotations
• Possibly sync with todoist if I can figure out how to make that useful for myself.
• Sync with zotero highlights and annotations
• View and edit tables. A lot of data is tabular even if not numerical.

Ideas

Tasks and Projects

• Projects have a field depends-on that can reference multiple tasks
• Tasks have a field depends-on that can reference multiple other tasks
• Multiple projects can depend on a given task
• Tasks have a field contributes-to that is essentially a back link from depends-on

A directed graph of tasks shows what order things need to get done in. Incorporate materials and information needed to know what things are stopping a task from getting done.

Notes, Ideas, Research

• Notes have fields like "supports", "agrees-with", "contrasts-with", "contradicts", "disproves", etc. which can link to multiple other notes and/or sources.
• Backlinks from those fields. "supported-by", "contradicted-by", etc.
• Possibly tags like "major-idea", "supporting-idea", "needs-sources"
• Be able to link sources from zotero
• Be able to import highlights and annotations from zotero and kindel as notes