This video (there’s a series of them but the first one is sufficient at first) was what helped me get started with obsidian.
I find it extremely useful for writing everything down and being able to easily access my thoughts and important information.
I also use the calendar plug in and daily notes. Every day I open a daily note and use it for my to do lists and to note down anything important that happened that day.
I know this is a super old thread but just wanted to chime in and say Obsidian has been life-changing for me. I am a disorganised mess, but before Obsidian it was 100x worse. I tried other note-taking apps but the thing I liked about Obsidian is it’s really an app that grows with you.
You start off barebones and you build up your plugins, note templates etc until you craft an app that works exactly the way you want it.
Other apps I felt like I had to fight them to get them to do what I wanted. My Obsidian works the way -I- decided I wanted it to work.
Obsidian is wonderful. I have folders with daily or weekly notes (and could do monthly or yearly too) similar to what you said. There are so many other features that I could use but haven’t yet, because I got it working exactly how I need right now.
One example I use besides journaling is taking notes on YouTube videos. For example, with interviews of YouTubers who give a lot of advice. I can put them all in a folder and/or apply a tag to find them in the same place later.
