Decided to try getting #Obsidian working for all my various #ttrpg crap and #worldbuilding crap.

[glen_malley@mstdn.ca]

@gullevek @dzwiedziu
When it comes to rpg stuff and even worldbuilding, I am all about organization. I want to be able to tag a character with say an organization name X, and then somewhere else be able to go "list up everyone in organization X". And it should just work.

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@glen_malley @dzwiedziu Woah. Yeah. Dunno if obsidian is ok for that. They recently added some strange search matrix bla thing. But that looked just too complicated for me

[glen_malley@mstdn.ca]

@gullevek @dzwiedziu
In WikidPad, I used tags for this and it was fine, but the default hierarchical structure meant that you could wind up with weird nesting behaviour.
X is a Y so the Y page appears under X but also Y is related to Z so Z is under Y and yet Z has a connection to X so X is also under Z.
It became a mess quickly.

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@glen_malley
> And perhaps most frustratingly is that 99% of guides are frickin' videos.

This so much.

If you'd like to accept one suggestion only, it's to make yourself a test vault and just go wild with experiments.

@gullevek

[glen_malley@mstdn.ca]

@gullevek @dzwiedziu
Obsidian seems to be the de facto tool used by roleplaying gamers, and I see tons of people saying they use tagging and such to group info together, so it probably can do those things....if you know HOW.
Which is where I am right now.

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@glen_malley @dzwiedziu Perhaps there is a guide. As a video

[glen_malley@mstdn.ca]

@dzwiedziu @gullevek
Yeah I have forced myself to sit down and watch this "obisidian for RPGs" video and just doing what he's doing.
That's actually where I got my first complaint about clunkiness from because by default if you make a new vault it's just open...along with the previous one. But on windows if you try to CLOSE it by doing the natural thing of clicking the X button....the entire Obsidian closes.
It took me forever to figure out how to close just one vault.

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@gullevek
It could be possible with dataview or bases.
But those can be a steep curve as one'd need to write an SQL-like query.

@glen_malley

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@glen_malley @dzwiedziu Hu. Advantage Mac. Because if you close the window you just close the vault

[glen_malley@mstdn.ca]

@dzwiedziu @gullevek
I'm definitely not afraid of having to use queries. That's my dayjob.

[glen_malley@mstdn.ca]

@gullevek @dzwiedziu
Yeah on windows it's not the X on the window itself...that closes the entire app.
It's the X on the taskbar representation of the window. Which is such a wild choice.

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@glen_malley @dzwiedziu Select work from life where location = “home”

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@glen_malley @dzwiedziu Yeah. Bad choice

[glen_malley@mstdn.ca]

@gullevek @dzwiedziu
Anyway, I will keep my bitching to a minimum. This video, while old and...a video...is not unbearable so far.

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@glen_malley
Hey, if you need to we can listen (with the caveat that I immediately go into problem-solving mode).

@gullevek

[glen_malley@mstdn.ca]

@dzwiedziu @gullevek
I'm just gonna follow this guide and see where I end up.
Whatever happens, it has to beat my current system of storing data in....Excel.

[gullevek@famichiki.jp]

@glen_malley @dzwiedziu So Japanese

[dzwiedziu@mastodon.social]

@glen_malley
Good luck

@gullevek

[glen_malley@mstdn.ca]

@dzwiedziu @gullevek
This stuff was quite useful, once I figured out wtf was going on. Even though some of the data is very out of date. I've got a nice template system set up now that makes D&D style stat block pages. I'll start putting in my data next time.
https://obsidianttrpgtutorials.com/