All sorts of things:

1. I use it for 3 general information displays (site updates, RSS feed updates that meet certain keyword criteria, and a weather dispaly) that i feed from terminal apps (the terminal apps print to text files, which Obsidian then displays)

2. I use it as a calendar/task manager that tells me everything from what i’m doing tomorrow to what i need to check in six months

3. I use it to organize world building stuff - everything from one-off ideas, to idea lists, to huge files full of names, places, etc even pictures.

4. I use it to organize true crime research stuff - both current and past cases, and larger cultural trends like the Satanic Panic.

Tags + folders make it very easy to keep stuff organized, which i like, and since i can just zip up a folder and send it to someone, it’s very portable if it needs to be.

I use it to organize my notes for the Dungeons and Dragons game I’m playing in. It’s fabulous for linking NPCs and locations with my notes for each session.

I mainly use it to record my notes and processes on photography, post processing photos and bread making. It also gets used for Linux, Ubuntu and vim tricks and tips that I find useful.

Whilst you can search Google for information, I would rather search Google once, find a good link then make my own notes that I can refer back to quicker than using Google again. I can also combine many Google links into one document as each link may have better points than the other.

Overall it’s to make my life more efficient by not having to remember everything and also “writing is learning”.

In my case, it’s a mixture of life wiki, personal project wiki, videogame wiki, and journal (not daily, but more for a few significant days).

Like, there’s this cluster with all the people that I know, pointing to their respective communities, and who participated in which annual social gathering (which have their own articles with pictures and videos). With one (usually rather empty) article per person, I can just link to them from other relevant places.

Then there are all my (software) projects and generally intellectually interesting stuff I thought about, which I wrote down over the years (which took me a few weeks to digitalize/find/sort once I got my hands on obsidian).

In terms of video games, it’s either the knowledge/realizations I made or rough copies from some online wiki articles. Considering my internet provider is horrible and unreliable, having an offline source can be really nice sometimes.

In general, it’s really useful to support my shitty memory. Having detailed descriptions of what I’ve made or what happened just makes it easier to re-experience certain moments.