Vladimir Campos (EN)

I don't really use Callouts in Obsidian, but I know many people who love to format their notes with features like this.

A few days ago, while listening to episode 658 of the 99pi podcast, I was stunned to learn that people are relating em dashes to ChatGPT and even calling them the ChatGPT dash.

Months ago, I was looking for the path of an old run tracked by Google Fit—a service, by the way, that I stopped using in 2023.

All my notes in Obsidian are created using the Unique Note Creator plugin and a single template containing all the properties I may need to find a note or to add it to a Bases table.

I already knew that thanks to Medium's canonical feature, my blog receives significant traffic from there.

First things first, it is important to understand a key distinction.

This wannabe new macOS Aqua is so, so bad.

Apple adopting a subscription model was the first thing that came to mind when they purchased Pixelmator Pro.

I just installed Obsidian 1.11.4 for Android, and the first thing I wanted to test were the new widgets.

Re-reading what's possibly my favorite book of all time 🥰

I just got an email from Starbucks telling me I was downgraded because I didn't earn enough stars in 2025.

Did you know WordPress has a native setting to connect your blog to the Fediverse?

Although the official app store has just a few apps, under the hood, the Supernote is an Android device with the option to sideload apps.

I was never happy with the Obsidian interface on the e-Ink display, so I finally removed it from my Supernote.

People eventually ask me questions about my Obsidian setup, so I put together a page describing how I use it and will keep it updated as I change things: vladcampos.com/obsidian

I’ve always loved maps, and the idea of creating a digital version of the pins from the physical world map on my wall has been with me for a long, long time.

It's 15°C, but with no wind, a bit of heat from the sun, and a good amount of imagination, I may be able to transport myself to summer.

At the beginning of this year, Amazon announced that downloading purchased Kindle books from their website would no longer be possible after February 26.

BookFusion has been my go-to reading app since I freed my Kindle library.

Yesterday I subscribed to Obsidian Sync Standard to test the plan I mentioned a few days ago.

It may be possible to simplify my new Obsidian Sync strategy with a little help from my Timeline System containers and the Selective Sync feature.

If you are not following the Syncthing-Fork drama, which, by the way, is not an official Syncthing Foundation app, here's the TL;DR: the person who was maintaining the Android app is not in charge of it anymore, and it looks like people don't know mu...

Talking about Open Web, I see more and more news outlets using what I'm calling a free paywall.

Even though I'm using Bases for almost everything on my Obsidian Vault, the Map View plugin is still my go-to for plotting my notes on a map.

Every time I go for a walk with my dog, especially at night, I can clearly see that people are more excited for Christmas this year.

After some back and forth between Micro.blog and Obsidian Publish, I'm finally finding some peace.

My next phone will definitely be a Fairphone, but since my Pixel 7 is still working perfectly fine, I have no idea when that will happen.

Transitioning from Evernote, a corporate ecosystem, to a sovereign one based on Obsidian and Micro.blog. 2025 was the year I fully switched from Evernote to Obsidian, but it was not an easy task.

I'm not an AI specialist nor a WhatsApp user, but antitrust looks to me like the least of the problems here.

Just found out that, of the 364 GB of disk space that I am currently using on my Mac, 101 GB is dedicated to my Obsidian vault.

I found the Hey there!

It's been so long since I first read Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf—back when I was twenty-something—that it feels like I'm encountering it for the very first time.

Just a few weeks after the AWS issues, Cloudflare reminded us, yet again, of how centralization can make the web break so easily.

I can see how appealing something like the Pixel Journal can be to many people.

There are some posts on my blog about books I've read, and, of course, their notes in Obsidian are categorized with properties, making it pretty easy to create a super-cool Bases table.

Download the DeDRM_tools plugin, unzip the folder, and set it apart.

There’s no point in waiting anymore.

Abstract The Timeline System can be used for managing digital and physical assets by structuring information based on activity status.

I needed a way to easily carry my Pi Zero, along with all its cables and connectors, back and forth between home and the studio.

Overall, I'm pretty happy with the experience.

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I've been gradually replacing my Action Containers subfolders and notes with Obsidian Bases tables.

Using the Unique Note Creator to save all of my notes and files in a single folder and my Notes table on Bases to find anything, as shown in a recent video, is working so well for me.

I found this wonderful chair in the trash the other day!

I'm sharing the following because I'm not sure if this is how it's supposed to work or if there is a bug.

I've been doing so many experiments with Obsidian Bases, but one of the first things I did was to make a list of all my notes to try to mimic the way I used the Evernote list of notes. ▶ I'm pretty sure some of you will ask me why I blurred tags and...

The first time I watched The Expanse, I treated it like an action story I could casually watch.

Since I had all my posts locally and in Markdown, it was much easier than I anticipated.

I currently have two separate blogs mainly because of the mess categories or tags create when I use the same blog to write in both languages.