About Me
As of July 2022, I am a PhD student in Singapore (AI 🎮 > MARL > Comms Learning). I like to optimize and automate my productivity system in Obsidian and my daily routines. I am often inspired by webnovels and fanfics I read 📚 so you may see quotes sparking zettels in my Zettelkasten
What I’m Working On
- I’ve decided to be a Content Creator 👩💼 Why create content. On my Youtube Channel I make videos about productivity, specifically implementing productivity systems, lifestyle and what I’ve learnt about being a content creator (this bit is still in the works (⁄ ⁄>⁄ ▽ ⁄<⁄ ⁄). A good place to start would be my Advanced Obsidian Workflow playlist
- Blog - You are here. I write blog posts but mainly focus on the note-blogging aspect, which is the Zettelkasten -
- Youtube Channel - Working on my video production speed (currently at 1 per month, goal = 1 per week)
- Newsletter…(haha well it is a goal)
- Podcast - ehh once I get a 4000 watch hours I shall start my podcast
- Health & Mental Health - They are interlinked so (*˘︶˘*).｡.:*♡ . This is my top priority of the year and I am not quite sure if I should post about this here :)
- Diet: Keto-vore (Mix of Keto / Carnivore) has been working well for me, when I can keep to it. I’m a foodie so this is really hard.
- Exercise: Daily walks have been really good for my mood, insulin sensitivity (tested with CGM) and also
- Tracking: I want to track things automatically for more health data, incorporate journalling into my life and try out different health measures e.g. CGMs because You only improve what you measure
- Life: I want work life balance, and after doing the odyssey plan I am working on realigning my life towards a future that I want. So working on Relationships, What kind of career do I want and
- Social: I want to spend time with friends and family more meaningfully, with a focus on creating memories and actual interaction (fun activities! chatting and playing co-op games) instead of just sharing space while staring at phone / tv.
- Finances (wanna figure out how to make money doing remote async work or at least remote work and also if my current skills are actually a viable way for me to make money if I don’t do the traditional lifestyle)
- Investments (only possible for people who already have money but leverage is key so bank loans for investments)
- Stocks - I only do long term index funds (coz I can’t be bothered to check regularly so just gonna buy for at least a decade, should still be better than keeping all my money in the bank)
- Property - I want to own my own eventually (so if I ever need to have a place to stay in), not possible for now :’) and not a good investment option in Singapore really
- Make Stuff
- courses - my skills are more of ‘coding’, ‘productivity systems’ and ‘content creator’ stuff so… maybe? I think people are interested in ‘how to be a youtuber’ / ‘how to automate your blog’ and I actually learnt a lot since I started.
- themes? video edit transitions?
- Consulting? Wells I can code so maybe if people want obsidian life os system setup help? I think August Bradley does a consultancy for Notion PPV System
Back Story / History
I tried Emacs (2016? a little, then 2020 till 2021) - I really love using chords (and registers to jump to fav files)
- doom is the best! so much faster than spacemacs
- tried a bullet journal style thing with org-mode
- org-roam is pretty cool
- maintaining emacs was too much of a pain
Then in 2021, I tried out Roam Research which was amazing but I found the web interface too slow
- I really liked Calhistorian, some research setups and basically the Robert Haisfield showcases
- Smartblocks - templates for morning
- tag inheritance and queries
- Also Roam Book Club 4 was a great way to learn the zettelkasten method + collaborative thinking. The writing exercises were just amazing.
A month later, I moved to Obsidian but really missed outliners so then I moved on to Logseq, which was local (on your computer) outliner + free but performance issues with too big files and queries made me switch back to Obsidian.
Currently using Obsidian (with a logseq integrated in but Obsidian is my main driver).
Best optimizations:
How I work in my obsidian (TODO?)