I have been taking notes on everything since the early 2000s. OneNote. Windows CE with a stylus. Notability with Apple Pencil on the first iPad. Roam Research when it launched. My tools changed. The habit didn't.
I now write notes on clean A4 paper in meetings, with a Blackwing Pearl Graphite if I can find one. Everything digital lives in Obsidian. A daily note, a weekly recap, essay drafts, a 7-day plan.
I came to Obsidian from Roam and didn't like it at first. Too polished. I also kept hoping Roam would become way better. Obsidian won me over slowly: plain text files, I own the data, and I can extend it when something bothers me. Small Canadian team with strong opinions about what makes a great product.
My laptop broke last week. I went back to taking notes by hand, writing "/tomorrow" next to tasks and picking them up the next day. Roam had a plugin that did this automatically. Obsidian didn't. Getting a task into tomorrow's note required clicking around, a modal popup, retyping. Three steps for something that should be zero.
I built Chrono Blaster to remove those steps. Type do
something /tomorrow, select it from the slash menu,
done.
The task lands in tomorrow's note as a checkbox. The current line keeps a wikilink so you know where it went.
I built this during Ramadan. For some reason, fasting brings me back to building things. Fasting until sundown gives me about two hours a day. When time is that scarce, you only build what actually irritates you. No research sprints, no roadmaps. Just friction, then fix.
This is the first Obsidian plugin I've built. Audience of one. I'll keep adding to it and submit it to the plugin directory once it's stable.
It's at github.com/alinawab/chrono-blaster if you use Obsidian and want to try it.