How I Use Fiddling With My Tools to Avoid Doing the Work

It’s a tale as old as tools?

Maybe if I switch from Notion to Obsidian for my personal note taking and journaling, I’ll finally be able to:

• Write more on my iPhone when I’m not at my desk because the Obsidian app is much quicker and stays out of my way compared to Notion on iOS.
• Enjoy writing quicker, shorter thoughts down that don’t have to be categorized, databased, or have nice icons and header images. (Though I was just distracted by “add file property” in Obsidian’s menu. Have to add that to a [[Things I need to learn about Obsidian]] note. Is that a thing I just created?
• Be able to find things I’ve written in the past without getting distracted by all the other things I’ve half started that appear in a database.
• Not worry about how to manage images in a blog post draft in Obsidian. (Which is another thing to add to the [[Things I need to learn about Obsidian]] list. Oh that’s cool it pops up there automatically when I tap the double brackets button.
• That’s great that I can tag a page to be created in the future, but that doesn’t bring over that sentence for me so the to do isn’t actually going to be on that page somehow, is it?
• Write something here and automatically have it go to my Ghost CMS based blog? That’d be cool. Oops that’s another that to add to the [[Things I need to learn about Obsidian]] list.

Originally I was going to write one serious item about switching apps, and then I was going to fill up the page with things that switching to Obsidian wouldn’t actually solve as a way of deflecting from the real struggle of just sitting down to write while also oversharing about myself in a way that will somehow fix all those things automagically somehow.

What I should do is start a new document where I list [[All the things I want to overshare about instead of go see a therapist about]].

Oh but what about tags? That’s one more thing to go on the [[Things I need to learn about Obsidian]] list.

I see I can't just copy and paste into Ghost from Obsidian on my Mac without getting rid of some of the formatting used by Obsidian. Oh well. Good first test.