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Digitizing my past to write my future: Transcribing my notebooks into Obsidian

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I have a new project. Using Obsidian as a second brain (thanks to my brother for the recommendation!), I am going to digitize all of my physical notes. I have many, MANY pages of notes. They range from travel notes to intellectual musings to pictures. This transcription project could easily take 100 hours or more. But it is a worthy and lifelong opus.

I’m doing this for a few reasons:

  • I want to make my notes easily searchable
  • I want to be able to easily relive and appreciate my past
  • I want to connect past ideas across time and space to generate new ideas

By using tags and connections in Obsidian, I can make connections between nodes (notes) that would be difficult to realize otherwise. These connections could unearth unknown topics in fresh ways. For example, maybe a note from 2014 could connect to a thought from 2018 that could address a problem in 2022.

I plan to write new blog posts based on realizations that come directly from this project. More to come!

Grant’s notebooks, ready for transcription
Grant’s Obsidian Second Brain connections as of 2022-02-20 (check back in a few weeks!)

A Poem: “Light tightly grips”

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Photo by Samantha Lynch on Unsplash

 

Light tightly grips the frayed, crusted rope.

Tugs lightly prick the rent hands that grope.

 

Alone, a lone canine stalks bonds built of trust.

Though windows, glassy pictures, paint kingdoms of lust.

 

What value does a sun feel while stars line its sight?

Not knowing luna mirrors its partner at night?

 

Recognize resonance, vibrating strength,

Echoing energy, manifest length,

 

Incarnate attraction, perspective of view,

Imagined appearance, extensions of you.

 

I stowed the best, eyes towed the rest.

My words are powers, my worlds are ours.

Welcome!…

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…To my blog. Hold on to your steering wheels, and control your excitement. Because at this URL will my heart pour out into a soup of virtual pixels for our senses to coalesce, for our brains to grasp, and for our selves to embody. My writing adventures will serve as personal development, and my hope is you will do the same.

“Writers live twice.” —Natalie Goldberg