After using vim keybindings inside Obsidian, I came across obsidian.nvim plugin that makes working with Obsidian from inside Neovim pleasurable.
This is definitely better than vim keybindings in Obsidian 1
But I had not not used neovim in a long time. After I upgraded to Monterey, I had not installed neovim again.
So getting it (as in neovim) was a bit of work. But I had my old config saved, so at least I didn’t have to start from the ground floor.
Today I discovered that Obsidian supports vim style keybindings out of the box.
But it knows that vim is not for everyone.
So it checks whether you know what you are doing (when you enable the setting, which is OFF by default) by having you enter a command in a pop up 😄
TBH, one can easily find out that command and “cheat”. On the other hand, if you don’t know vim, and still want to turn on the setting (by cheating) - you deserve what you get 😄
Obsidian is not new to me. I come across it from time to time, but never paid much attention.
That changed when I migrated my PKM site to use Obsidian-zola.
Technically, it use Zola, and has nothing to do with Obsidian (for Publishing)
The “source” is maintained in Obsidian, but it is just collection of markdown files, which can easily be maintained outside.
But then I got Obsidian desktop installed. I used it for making minor edits to markdown files.
Today we purchased a new car!
Thank you (Here I assume you are congratulating me 😄)
It is a great feeling.
Some quick thoughts (in random order)
The process took about 2 hours, even though we were waiting just 10 minutes for our turn.
Tomorrow onward there will be a lot of rush due to Diwali
Kids got bored towards the end, when the executive was giving me the demo/explaning the features.
It started with a post on Emacs Stories Telegram group. Someone posted a pretty picture with Emacs-logo-on-a-butterfly and a comment M-x butterfly
But the actual command M-x butterfly is boring (to me at least)
I wanted the nice image.
Some nice soul on the group directed me to this page
First I changed the icon of my doom emacs to this image.
I followed these instructions.
No immediate success.
Because, I have Emacs installed from brew, so one in /Applications folder is a symlink to the actual file in /opt/.
Last night when I wanted to check this site, but I started getting security error related to certificate. But it did not say domain expired.
I know Netlify automatically renews the cerificates, so I was confused.
But I was too sleepy to troubleshoot.
This morning, for some reason I checked my other email account which I almost never use except for domain registrar 😄
The Domain has expired email was smiling at me.
Few hours ago, I uninstalled Instagram from my phone.1
Ironically, earlier today I watched a reel on Instagram saying “Instagram is like Chakravyuh, and we are like Abhimanyu. We can go inside, but not come out”.2
I think that made to take this action.
I noticed that I had not written much in the entire month of August 2023, and hardly 2 entries in September. While some of it attributes to work pressure, my instagram addiction may be equally responsible.
As mentioned earlier I tried new starter kit called Emacs Bedrock.
Getting started was easy with --init-directory option in Emacs 29
I also enabled a few mixins in init.el as recommended. Especially evil mode.
The *Quick Help* that shows up at the start is very useful. Especially for someone like myself who is not familiar with native emacs keybindings.
Enabling evil mode means I can at least edit the text.
Recently when reading about emacs Bedrock I learnt that emacs 29+ has command line option that lets the user pass custom init directory via emacs --init-directory=MYDIR option. 1
This makes it easy to try out different starter kits without touching your stable/working config
Currently, I use Minemacs on my personal machine. In past I would rename my .emacs.d to try new config. (Then switch it back)
This makes things easier.