PTPL 070: Task Management: Obsidian Plugin vs Plain Text vs Readymade Solutions

PLUS a Drafts to Obsidian collection of tutorials

Plain text, Paper, Less (PTPL) Productivity Digest, text-based image by Author

Welcome! I’m Ellane, and this is a once-a-week summary of things that are helping me to simplify and future-proof my digital-analog workflow.

With Drafts to Obsidian, I go out of my head (and I just can’t get enough)

I know, I know… I keep going on about Drafts, and how to use it as an entry point to your Obsidian vault without opening the latter. * smiles; shrugs *

This blog post from Stephen Millard is a great guide to getting new notes into your Obsidian vault, via Drafts. Here is my version of these instructions:

Tutorial: How to Get Text into Obsidian Without Opening the App

It’s the method I’m using today.

Why would you want to do this? To pay for another app to help you enter text into the app you really want to keep said text in? First off, it’s incredibly helpful if starting up Obsidian takes longer than you’d like. It’s also great to help you avoid the distraction of everything else you’ve got going on with your vault when all you want is to add a quick note in a sp…