Personal Archive
I recently came across this article from Jamie Todd Rubin. It really inspired me. I've always been interested in personal archives and this just made me even more so.
I have so much going on at the moment. I'm a new father, I'm getting married in December, I've went back to university and I have a part time job.
This is an especially mad time in my life. I think it would be good to look back on in years to come. Maybe my son would like to take a look too, or maybe I'm just being a bit self-important.
I've decided to use Obsidian as the base of my archive. It's where everything will live. I've made a new vault for this purpose. I'm using Obsidian Sync with this, and I get a 40% education discount which makes this a bit easier. I've found Obsidian Sync to be more reliable than iCloud.
I'm using community plugins to pull both outstanding and completed tasks from Todoist. Tasks completed on a certain day will show up in that day's daily note.
I'm also using dataview and a bit of javascript to pull in the weather for each day.
In addition to these sections in my daily notes I have a section for a log, where I bullet point happenings from the day. The last section is articles/books read.
All of my writing will also go into Obsidian. When I'm working on a piece I'll reference it in my daily note, so I can see when I've been writing/finished a piece in the future.
The final data I'd like to pull into Obsidian is my calendar, but in plain text. When I work out a good way of doing this automatically I'll add it into the system.
