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   Betsy. (a muffin). (betsythemuffin@wandering.shop)'s status on Friday, 24-Nov-2023 12:36:21 JST Betsy. (a muffin).

   Obsidian user friends:

   I'm experimenting with using Obsidian for composition, but am running into trouble on an odd triviality. I am used to using [bracketed placeholders] heavily while drafting, but of course brackets are reserved in markdown. What lightweight typographic conventions do folks use for this purpose?

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     Josh Susser (joshsusser@neurodifferent.me)'s status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 03:25:10 JST Josh Susser

     • Matthew Lyon

     @mattly @betsythemuffin I have been using {curly braces} instead of [square brackets] for placeholder text and it's fine. But I just started playing with nested tags and I kind of like it. I also looked at using other markdown/obsidian features like links or footnotes, but tags seemed like the most useful with least extra typing. With nested tags, you can do that TK thing like #TK/favorite-color and get all the nice tag management stuff like tag views and backlinks. I don't have any nostalgia for "TK" so I'm experimenting with "-" as the root placeholder tag, so they look like "#-/birthday" which is really about as lightweight as I need.