# Obsidian workflow

I use a version of zettelkasten that relies on three things: Dataview, tags, and
a simple filename prefix system. My vault is structured

.
├── 000/
│   ├── assets
│   ├── style-settings
│   └── templates
├── 100
├── 200/
│   └── russian
├── 300/
│   └── 350
├── 400
└── index.md

* 000: config files
* 100: fleeting, to be indexed/renamed
* 200: permanent, mostly lists
* 300: drafts; published/exported writing goes to 350
* 400: databases sorting 200 and 300

Across devices, I use:

* macOS: homebrew package
* iPadOS: app + working copy
* Android: app + termux
* arch: vim with a markdown ftplugin, mdcat and glow for terminal viewing, and

$ git commit -m "arch manual backup $(date '+%F %T')"


## Plugins

The app itself can easily get slowed down by plugins, so I access my vault from
the CLI on every platform more than incidentally. I've been using Obsidian for
almost three years and my only must-haves are Dataview and Git. Iconize and
Spaced Repetition are useful for Russian learning, though I more often use a
Dataview table as a vocabulary. I also use Markdown Chords and ABC Music
Notation only on my MacBook and iPad. I think the real culripts for slower
performance are Style Settings (the way I configure it, at least) and Git. I
find keeping Obsidian plugins updated more of a chore than it should be, which
is definitely a me problem.

The main source of aesthetic for me is fonts. I use STIX Two Text in the
editor, Overpass for the interface, and CMU Modern Mono for titles and headings
with Style Settings, all wtih the end goal of Cyrllic and broad unicode support.


## Awful convoluted export process

Drafts usually go one of two places:

    1. pandoc'd into HTML => Archive of Our Own
    2. copied into a Google Doc

It's only awful and convoluted for the Google bit because uploading a .docx from
pandoc is too crazy. Docs has beta live markdown formatting, but pasting large
chunks of markdown doesn't work. My use case is also incrementally updating a
now novel-length gdoc, so I'm stuck Ctrl+V'ing.