I will check this (and Heynote) out. I have long wanted to get into something like Obsidian, but have always had trouble finding a good example of a workflow in the development world that makes good use of their features. Almost all example workflows I've seen are from people whose job it is to work on and evangelize note taking tools, and it's mostly things like organizing their notes on how to take notes. Seemed like a bad sign. This seems a bit more focused and could at least replace my habit of opening up Notepad++ (on Windows) or a text document in a scratch folder (on Linux) to jot down a query to tweak and reference later. Thanks!
I had the same experience as you, and held off on getting into note taking with Obsidian for quite a while. Eventually someone said to me "Don't worry about workflow at all, just start taking notes with no flow or organization. You will develop a flow that works for you as you use it more." That's what I did, and it was very true. I don't think my flow matches any popular workflow, I just started taking notes and it naturally developed.
If you have something you want to write down to be able to reference in the future, create a note and put that in it. The next time you want to write something down, you can either put it in the note you already created, or you can make another note if that sounds nicer. Up to you. You'll find out what works.
You can do basically what you're doing right now, which is opening a random file and putting it in there, except now instead of your files being spread across your system they're all in one place, and if you want to start doing fancier stuff with them in the future you can. I use a small percentage of Obsidian's features, and they don't get in my way if I'm not using them.
