What I use Obsidian for, and what went wrong I adopted Obsidian to build knowledge for myself. Take in lots of personal knowledge through all kinds of methods, and turn it, one by one, into Permanent Notes: finished pieces of my own wisdom Build up those Permanent Notes and hand them down as a body of explicit knowledge for those who come after me Above all, I believed Obsidian's job was to keep producing solid Permanent Notes out of the collective knowledge I'd gathered. Or so I...