Obsdian’s Many Uses

In all my time using a Mac, I’ve never found more uses for a single app as I have for the note taking app, Obsidian. With a robust selection of over 1900 plugins, Obsidian can be configured to import and manipulate data from a great many sources. It can even be used for publishing. Using the Dataview plugin makes it function like a database. It stays open at all times on both my Macs. There are a great many resources to help you master it, including on Reddit, Discord, the developer’s website, YouTube and numerous blogs.

Here are 77 use cases

1. A scratchpad for temporary text snippets
2. Published blog posts
3. Bookmarks via Raindrop.io
4. People you work with (co-workers)
5. Customers/Clients
6. A record of your daily appointments
7. Weather reports
8. Restaurants where you've eaten
9. Recipes
10. Watched YouTube videos
11. Watched movies
12. Watched TV shows
13. Music you've listened to
14. Games you've played/bought
15. Apps you want to buy
16. Receipts via email
17. Apps you own
18. Analytics reports from your web site or blog
19. Registration info for software you've purchased
20. A record of interactions with your family members who live separately
21. Random photos
22. Saved blog posts from writers you like
23. Phone numbers and contact information
24. An outline of your online security plan (DNS, VPN, Firewall, Ad Blocker, Password Manager), just don't include passwords in plain text%
25. Copies of your insurance cards
26. Lyrics to your favorite songs
27. Profile pictures to use on web sites
28. A list of numbers to call if you lose your wallet/purse
29. Podcasts you want to subscribe to
30. Books you've read/want to read
31. Vacation plans
32. Your favorite memes
33. Copies of vital documents like birth certificates, marriage licenses etc.
34. A copy of your resume
35. Your current and past goals
36. A copy of your will
37. A copy of your healthcare power of attorney
38. The random poem you've written
39. Cue sheets for long bicycle rides
40. Jokes you want to remember
41. A list of things you love
42. A record of completed tasks from your task manager
43. Your favorite quotes
44. Transcripts of your Q&As with ChatGPT or Google Gemini
45. Saved emails
46. Notes from training you've attended
47. The encryption key for Bitlocker or File Vault
48. A brag document for your job
49. Technical "How to" documents for computer related tasks
50. Genealogy info
51. Wifi passwords
52. Imported web pages from your read it later service
53. RSS feeds from your favorite blogs
54. Software manuals
55. Appliance manuals
56. Default settings for your computer
57. A record of your Amazon purchases
58. End of the year "Best of" articles to check out on books, TV, podcasts, movies, articles
59. Screenshots of social media posts you like
60. Purchasing wish list
61. Templates for various dataview queries
62. Terminal or Powershell commands too complicated to remember
63. How to write in Markdown
64. Search tips, syntax and operators for your favorite search engine or AI
65. API Keys for various web services
66. Templates for your Obsidian plugins
67. Templater snippets
68. All the topics in your quotes collection
69. Drafts blog posts
70. A history of your social media posts
71. A "To Watch" list for YouTube and television
72. A daily gratitude list
73. A record of new things you've learned
74. Alarm codes for your relative's houses
75. A dataview query for notes created today
76. A dataview query for notes modified today
77. Waypoint Folder Notes for your important folders of notes