Obsidian

over 2 years from writing these notes. I come back to obsidian with a different mind however similar opinions. I think I'm going to give obsidian a harder shot now because I am in the biggest compression of my life and I want 1 place that has word counts, download into a set structure, API/tools integrations capability, and all of me centralized af. 

Does this make sense? is obsidian where I get that?

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Obsidian is pretty powerful, if it's not running the way you want it to there's almost certainly a way to make it do that. 

if you want it to, Obsidian can do and be just about anything.

in my experience, most people don't want to be power users, though. they want something that works out of the box. something opinionated, or something simple. 

so if there's something out there that you already like and enjoy and doesn't get in the way of your process, then I'd say don't bother with Obsidian. 

but if your existing tools are giving you grief and you've got some time to tinker, it's pretty satisfying to put together a vault just the way you like it.

i'd rather kill the radio and listen to the rain hit

in a word: yes.

in more words: check out Khoj and Copilot from the Community Plugins. and if you want something custom, it's not too hard to write a custom plugin yourself (this is what i did).

and since Obsidian is local-first and all your files are on-device, you're not married to it if there's another AI tool that works better for your specific needs. for example: the Claude desktop app can be granted filesystem access right now. so you can point it at the folders your writings are in and work with them that way.

mmh. I write everywhere. I want 1 place to wrap an ai around it at some point. I want to compress all 600k words into 1 place. And tinker with those words. 

You think this is it?