[[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. [[Shortcuts App|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