What 4,400 Obsidian Notes Taught Me About Managing ADHD Brain

A graph view of all of my notes in Obsidian. This is about 4,000 notes and two-plus years in. The giant blue blob in the middle, by the way, is all the links I had stored in my Read-It-Later app (previously Omnivore, but now discontinued)

Hey there.

With adult ADHD, even trivial things can feel heavy. I was instantly intrigued when I learned about Personal Knowledge Management through Tiago Forte's Build a Second Brain.

Now, almost 4,400 notes deep in Obsidian, I've documented everything from job applications to therapy notes to half-finished blog posts about seagulls. (Don't ask.) Here's what I learned about getting my digital life together, or at least pretending to.