About

These notes are for the most part formatted in markdown and hopefully made to be quite presentable and accurate. The colour theme for this website is based off catppuccin.

I use a mixture of Emacs and Obsidian to take these notes¹². Emacs has been wonderful to use especially with obsidian.el. After a year of using Vanilla Emacs, I got tired of configuring everything myself and switched to Doom Emacs and have been quite happy with it.

Obsidian has been a great to use on my other devices (namely, my iPad and my phone synced to my computer using syncthing). I use a few plugins to make my use of obsidian more palatable including but not limited to:

• Core plugins:
  • Backlinks
  • Bookmarks
  • Command palette
  • File recovery
  • Files
• Community plugins:
  • Advanced tables
  • Code editor shortcuts
  • Dataview
  • Dataview serializer³
  • Excalidraw
  • Footnote shortcut
  • Git
  • Iconize
  • Obsidian_to_Anki
  • Omnisearch
  • Recent Files
  • Style Settings
  • Text Extractor
  • Vimrc Support²

In particular for the discipline notes I use this kind of format with the dataview serializer plugin to display lists of the relevant notes.

list rows.file.link 
    from "01 Disciplines" 
    where  
        contains(Rotations, "[" + this.file.name + "]("
            + replace(this.file.folder + "/" + this.file.name + "." + this.file.ext, " ", "%20") 
            + ")") OR contains(Rotations, this.file.link) or 
        contains(file.path,this.file.name) 
    sort file.name asc 
    group by reverse(split(file.folder, "/"))[0] 

Footnotes

1. Both are great applications for note taking but unfortunately there might be some barrier to using either application because of the initial learning to use either program. If that is the case for you, I’d recommend something like notion or remnote to take notes on ↩

2. Man vim support in obsidian sucks. Just use emacs with evil mode and obsidian.el. ↩ ↩²

3. This is how I make autogenerated lists on a lot of different pages (e.g. this page’s rotations list) ↩