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Obsidian Auto-properties is Live!
I submitted my 2nd ever plugin to Obsidian’s community plugins registry in December of last year. It’s finally live!
If you have Obsidian on the device you’re reading this on, open this link to check it out.
If you do not have Obsidian on your device, see the GitHub repo README.
I know I’m biased, but I think I’ve come up with a very good feature here. Time well tell if user adoption reflects that, but I use it every day on every vault I have.
Know what you want to accomplish
A new note of mine connects 25+ other notes across productivity, communication, leadership, business, and fitness.
The note is:
So much of productivity, communication, and fitness advice comes down to really knowing your goal.
Illustrative Example
My home office is above the garage. It gets hot. I wanted to fix this.
Last Summer
Original goal statement:
Lower the temperature in the office.
I did a lot of research and spent a lot of effort on looking at insulation, getting thermometers with memory, utilizing a box fan to push hot air out of the room to create a low pressure zone so the one air conditioning vent in here would suck additional cold air into the room, and ultimately buying a portable air conditioner.
Result: Nothing really worked except the portable AC, which is expensive to run.
This Summer
Refined goal statement:
Make the office more comfortable to work in.
The temperature of the whole office doesn’t really matter. What matters is the temperature where I sit. This is the real problem. It’s much easier to solve.
I put a box fan out of the office blowing cold air directly onto my office chair.
Result: meaningfully more pleasant experience with way less operating expense.
Misc
- Hi Zane!
- Life’s still good, but I can’t keep saying this forever.
- Why do some business locations feel cursed? A franchise that flourishes everywhere else can simply die because it’s in that building that we all decided for some reason nobody goes to.
- Here’s a fun pair of Top 5s.
Top 5: Problems I Prepared for as a Child
5. Needing to hide from bad guys
4. Tough videogame tournament competition
3. Sudden ninja incursions
2. Monsters, in general
1. Floor suddenly becoming lava
Top 5: Problems I Should have Prepared for as a Child
5. Swimming well
4. Needing to be in two places at once
3. Chipping away at large goals in small increments
2. How to combine limited ingredients into decent meals
1. Making small talk
Quote:
Highly chagrined! - Angela
It would be faster and funner, but these are important - My 5 year old, about the importance of walking to collect sticks rather than riding a bike