It has been a wild year. It’s hard to even think of a time where I didn’t have my online notebook as a backup for all of the important information I need on a daily basis. It’s moved and changed slightly here and there, but at the end of the day it’s consistently been-what I think is the most important part-useful.

Some topics have come and gone. After trying out diary entries I realized I don’t get the same sense of satisfaction from it as I do when I write in my physical journal, so that came and went. I only lightly use the dictionary portion of my vault that I don’t make public. It’s mostly words I come across in books that I have to look up and write down to try and not forget it.

Computer Science as a topic is through and through mostly what I write about since this platform was originally a place to put my notes for my students. That plan hasn’t changed, but I’d like to expand eventually.

Of all the projects I took on, the one’s I’ll continue with most are the textbook breakdowns and project trackers. My notes on getting Capricornpokes finished helped keep track of everything without getting too cluttered or confusing, so that’s for sure going to be a part of all my future projects as of right now.

I don’t finish books fast enough for that to actually make a dent in the makeup of my vault, but I hope in a few years time to have more posts under the entertainment tab. Honestly the more I write that I want to change the name to something else but that is a year 2 problem. Here are some fun stats as of June 19th, 2025:

  • 385 Notes
  • 407 Files
  • 21 Attachments
  • 306 Links
  • 136,433 words
  • 13.71 MB
  • 116 Excalidraw Drawings

Now the only number I don’t really trust there is the word count, due to Excalidraw files skewing that a bit (without them I had 129,650!), but still, not too bad for a first year. Here’s a look at my graph view;

Obsidian screenshot

I use the Shiba Inu theme with minor tweaks in the settings to add some color pop on the file explorer and background image. I don’t use too many community plugins;

  • Templater
  • Excalidraw
  • Omnisearch
  • Style Settings
  • Update Time on Edit
  • Chesser

And lastly, of course, I host all my notes using Hugo :)