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Peter Kaminski posted this this year-old Nick Milo video about Obsidian being about writing really (and that Nick's piece) speaks to what/why/how we're trying to use Obsidian: Why Obsidian Will Overtake Roam (YouTube)
Nick's primary notion is that there are four types of information processing modes or behaviors: viz.:
Nick also contrasts outlining (and nesting ideas under other ideas) versus writing, and making lists versus writing prose.
Nick presents a model he calls "Personal Knowledge Management Personality" (ugh!) that makes the following distinctions among PKM practices (he sometimes uses "behaviors"):
Nick describes Databasing (usage, gah!) as this:
It directs your attention toward the activity of adding metadata; because if you don't add attributes, then your advanced queries won't do you any good, so, good luck finding whatever it is you're looking for! This forces you to add metadata and over-link everything, absolutely all the time. And all this attention directed towards adding attributes and metadata]l, is attention stolen from writing ... along with making everything harder to read and share with others.