Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

In Obsidian, making and following [[connections]] is frictionless. Tend to your notes like a gardener; at the end of the day, sit back and marvel at your own knowledge graph.

A note-taking tool for networked thought.

A kind of commonplace book.A kind of digital garden.A kind of Zettelkasten.The front end to a brain.

Part research,part dissertation,part art project.

A kind of essay,in the sense that it isan attempt.

...but at what?

I’ve had this (semi-vague) idea that I want to write about what keeps us excited to work on Are.na, on the occasion of its 10th (yes 10th) birthday. While writing generally is a tricky process for me, this subject motivation is even trickier.

In turning this subject around in my mind, and thinking about all the people and things that have been influential, I have some idea about what keeps us going.

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