Metadata
- Author: Eleanor Konik
- Full Title:: 🌲 How Obsidian Replaced Video Games & Helped Me Publish
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Videogames, Writing is thinking,
- URL:: https://www.eleanorkonik.com/obsidian-replaced-games-now-prolific/
- Finished date:: 2023-10-13
Highlights
Not the same than me: what I like is to enter into a meditative-like mindset.
I realize that the part of those games I really enjoy are inventory management and tweaking automations. (View Highlight)
I can see how this can substitute real productivity.
I’ve somehow stumbled into gamifying the act of organizing knowledge for myself, which means that instead of chatting with my husband at the dinner table about my progress in a video game, I’m able to say things like, “I stumbled across some notes about how I wanted to learn more about Roman magistrates, and actually got around to asking some historians about it on Reddit, and did you know that some Roman priests weren’t allowed to touch iron or leave Rome for more than a day?” (View Highlight)