` Take Better Notes in Obsidian

Presented by Brendan Kidwell
at New York Amateur Computer Club
10 October 2024

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Obsidian is freeware (not Open Source software) for writing and organizing notes on your personal computer, tablet or smartphone. Obsidian is available at obsidian.md.

Because Obsidian stores pages as plain text files in CommonMark/Markdown format, you are in control of your data, and you will never be locked in with no outward migration path if you choose to stop using Obsidian in the future.

This presentation will demonstrate how I was able to setup several notebooks in Obsidian, to track my work and personal journals, and keep a separate "howto" document database, and a "Service Catalog" to track all of my home IT services.