[[Obsidian]] is excellent for [[PKM]]. It hosts [[My Notes]] and works great for using the [[Smart Notes Standard Workflow]] to create [[Evergreen Notes]] and/or as part of a "[[Zettelkasten Components|Zettelkasten]]". That's the [[Use Case Diagrams|Use Case]] I've found great success with. There are others, though. # Project Management Like I already wrote about in this pre-existing note, it's possible: [[Obsidian for Projects]]. # Long-form Writing I'm trying this out, sort of, for my [Gillespedia](https://gillespedia.com) articles. # Journaling The daily notes plug-in is basically designed for this. It's all local & private. ## Quantified-Self-Specific Journaling The [[PDW]] could be written around Obsidian as a Data Store. It _probably_ wouldn't even be terribly difficult. Siri Shortcuts can be used to automatically write new notes to your designated 'Personal Data Warehouse' vault. Of course this doesn't really lend itself to _analysis_, but could be neat conceptually. # For-Purpose Notetaking You can spin-up specific, siloed vaults for notes about a particular thing that don't need to be tied outside that context. There are a few private use cases I could imagine [[Notion]] **not** being great for. ## Taxes You can track the files & make notes about them and how they were used. ## Medical Notes You could keep medical records, doctor's visit [[Note Types#Logs]]. Use a tag to group things by doctor and/or person. # [[System Modeling General Process]] Pre-work A promising use case for work-related endeavors - Obsidian is **not** a great collaborative or "shared knowledge" tool (although perhaps it could be). But it is _fantastic_ at accumulating, organizing, and expressing **personal** knowledge. This personal explanation of "how things work" could be forced into a consistent schema and _then_ used as the basis for an [[Enterprise Architecture]] model (or simply [[Archimate]]/[[UML]]/[[SysML]]/[[UAF]]) to be built. It _may_ be possible to build a translator that takes the contents of an Obsidian vault and translates them for **import** into a modeling tool. You may be able to use [[Obsidian Linting]] to assist with the cleaning. # D&D (or similar) There is apparently a pretty common use case wherein Obsidian is used for role playing games like Dungeons and Dragons. I don’t know enough about them to understand, but I assume it has to do with keeping track of your character’s stats or whatever. **** ## Source - Self ## Related