Juha-Matti Santala
Community Builder. Dreamer. Adventurer.

Blog posts in category “Notes”

I'm a note geek. Let's talk about taking notes.

  • Nov 20th, 2024
    Search your notes first

    If you feel like your notes system doesn’t serve you well because you don’t remember what’s in there so you end up searching the web anyway, you should adopt a mindset of searching your own notes first.

  • Nov 16th, 2024
    End of year self-reflection with Year Compass

    As the year draws to the end, now is a good time to grab a cup of tea or hot chocolate, print Year Compass and reflect on the past year and prepare for the next one.

  • Nov 2nd, 2024
    Notion is adding an offline mode

    About a year ago, I switched from Notion to Obsidian mainly due to the lack of offline mode in Notion. Now, they’ve finally announced they are working on it but for me, it’s too little too late - I found happiness for my notes elsewhere.

  • Oct 16th, 2024
    How I take work notes as a developer

    I’m kind of a notes geek and wanted to share what kind of notes I keep and why when I work in software development.

  • Sep 21st, 2024
    Auto Note Mover and templates make a nice duo in Obsidian

    Obsidian’s core templates functionality and community plugin Auto Note Mover make it easy to manage my notes system folder structure without having to think where notes should go.

  • Jul 22nd, 2024
    Notes are a tool for …

    Notes are more than just a collection of thoughts. They are an active tool for thinking, writing, learning and being productive.

  • Jul 1st, 2024
    A peek into my pocket notebook

    Another notebook is almost full so I took a look at what I wrote about this time

  • Mar 20th, 2024
    Recent evolution of my note taking systems

    My approach to taking notes is always evolving as I learn and pick up new practices and drop things that didn’t end up working. This is a deep dive into my current setup that has been so far the best I’ve ever had.

  • Feb 12th, 2024
    Public notes

    Public notes are a great way to document a process of doing something while sharing it with others so they can learn too.

  • Dec 13th, 2023
    Two months with Obsidian

    I’ve been experimenting with taking notes with Obsidian for two months now, here’s a retrospective of that experiment.

  • Feb 15th, 2023
    The imperfect mess of note taking

    I like to take notes and for years attempted to find the perfect solution. Once I embraced the imperfect chaos, I started to get good at taking notes.