#obsidian is 4 messy repetitions and connections

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hi! re: this post, would you perhaps be willing to elaborate on how you format the reading lists you mentioned keeping in obsidian? also, do you store notes on things you read in obsidian? (< g*rl who was using obsidian for undergrad notes until relatively recently and has now graduated but still wants to use obsidian for something :sob:)

to answer yr 2nd question first — i do use obsidian to store notes on things that i read. i talk a bit abt that process here, wrt to working with my memory impairment rather than against it. in general, i just do it cuz i like it! i like rotating my little thoughts inside my mind & making my favourite concepts kiss. it’s good for the soul.

and the answer to yr first question, the formatting for my reading lists is extremely basic. it looks like:

### title of the list

[ ] Title, author (date)

[x] Title, author (date)

[ ] Title, author (date)

[ ] Author last name, First name. Title of work. Year or edition if relevant.

i use either of the two citation styles, depending on the list and usually keep it consistent throughout. the “dash, open square bracket, space, close square bracket” format is how u do checklists and checking something off with strikethrough that item on the list.

EXAMPLE: i’m interested in two books on the work of john le carré which are collections of essays, so i’ve made a list of which essays interest me the most and i’ve put them in order of most interesting first.

### John Le Carré secondary readings

[ ] Rogers, Randal. “Le Carré’s Queer Nostalgia.” Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, edited by Randal Rogers. Routledge, 2023.

[ ] Rea, Ann. “‘A New Class of Domesticity’: Home, Abroad, Foreignness, and Masculinity in Len Deighton’s The Ipcress File and John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.” Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage: Spying Undercover(s), edited by Ann Rea. Bloomsbury, 2024.

[ ] Barnwell, Jane. “Searching for a Lost Home in the Labyrinth: Set Design in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, edited by Randal Rogers. Routledge, 2023.

[ ] Baker, Brian. “Gramophone, Telephone, Radio, Spy: Mediation and Espionage.” Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, edited by Randal Rogers. Routledge, 2023.

[ ] Lohneis, Paul. “Darling Men, Lover Boys, and Rogues: Connie Sachs, Molly Doran, and the Precarity of Institutional Memory in John le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and Mick Herron’s Dead Lions.”

[ ] White, Rosie. “A Queer Thing: The Older Woman Spy.” Sexuality and Gender in Fictions of Espionage: Spying Undercover(s), edited by Ann Rea. Bloomsbury, 2024.

[ ] D’Arcy, Geraint. ”Essentially, Another Man’s Woman: Information and Gender across Adaptations of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, edited by Randal Rogers. Routledge, 2023.

[ ] Hindersmann, Jost. “The Days Before Empire Became a Dirty Word: Decline, Nostalgia, and Betrayal in John le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.” Histories, Adaptations, and Legacies of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, edited by Randal Rogers. Routledge, 2023.

hope that makes sense? if not/if you have other questions feel free to shoot me another ask bc i love talking abt my notes & what i’m reading/watching/thinking abt. cheers & happy new year 🥂