PTPL 012: Automatic Obsidian iCloud Vault Backups, to Dropbox

I’m having trouble with the Obsidian Git plugin—can you help?

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Welcome to the twelfth in a series of posts documenting my plain text, paper-less, Obsidian-flavoured journey.

Today I’ll be talking about —

• Backups! Wherever your vault lives, you need an extra automated backup (I use Git and Dropbox)

• A browser extension/Obsidian plugin combo that makes it easier to take notes online

• A small update to my weekly log

Productivity Tips and Inspiration

In this piece, Francesco Amighetti tells us why linked note-taking is important:

You have the chance to give voice to unexpressed or unnoticed values, desires, and beliefs, and store them safely. Where before you could see only confusion, now you see clarity.

Jeffrey Webber explains why he believes tags should be a side dish, not the main course of the way we structure our notes.

[N]o matter the process, a system with highly discoverable notes should be secondary to developing your understanding. What we do with that understanding may vary …but no matter what it is, the end goal is the improvement of…