We'll continue just like yesterday and the day before. By keeping it simple with asking *why.* To flesh out **your third note**, you will find the one most electrifying of your empty notes and ask yourself again: > "Why is this important to me?" ==Remember: If it matters to you, share it!== Because if it matters to you it also matters to someone else. This person may not have your level of written communication skills but when they find your note, tomorrow, next month or 5 years from today, they'll thank you the world over. On the flip-side: *Please avoid writing about anything you don't care for.* If you're writing a note about something that does *not* matter to, why even bother capturing it? Who cares? Not you. It's going to be boring, a pain in the ass to finish and no one will want to read it, including you. So, let's make sure you find your ONE note[^2] today that you're the most excited about. When you've found it, go on a deep dive into capturing *why* it's important to you. ## Part 1: The HUNT Like a hunter, you're looking for that "ONE note" that you'll flesh out today. 1. Open the Graph-View and browse your vault 2. Look at the different note titles you've created in the last 7 days 3. No stress, just browse and see which ones capture your attention. Just notice which ones tickle you. Take as much time as you need for this. 4. At some point you'll come across a note and a jolt of electricity will run through your whole body. You'll know it when you see it. That's the ONE you'll write about today. ## Part 2: The DIVE Now comes the part where you focus on fleshing it out by jumping in. 5. Open the note by clicking into it 6. Spend the next 10-15 minutes fleshing this one out with the question "Why is it important?" 7. Open your note in [Hemingway Editor](http://www.hemingwayapp.com/), edit it and _aim to get a readability score[^3] of 3 or better_. 8. PUBLISH your note 9. Cross off this exercise at [[⭐️ 21-Day Obsidian Publish Challenge]] 10. Reward yourself with a piece of chocolate, a glass of orange juice or anything else highly-satisfying of your choice ## My example Here's an example of what happend for me today as I went through the exercise. I had not planned this, so bear with me. We're discovering this whole daily publishing thingy together. ### Cleaning up places I browsed through the graph view but nothing could really catch my attention until I saw the [[Countries I have lived in]] note from a few days earlier. It was just a flat list of all places I had lived at for at least a year or more. I looked at the list and decided to clean it up. Cleaning up meant to create a better hierachy because I wanted to have the graph view reflect geography - -> "[[Countries I have lived in]]" - -> "[[USA]]" - -> "[[New York City, USA]]" - -> "[[Manhattan, New York City]]" - -> "[[13 Peck Slip, Southstreet Seaport, Manhattan]]" Now, the local graph view[^4] of places I've lived at looks neat and organized. ![[Screenshot 2020-10-13 at 11.03.48.png]] Note-organization like this is also a matter of readability, even though I didn't flesh out one particular note today. I'm still happy that I did what I did. It felt like the right thing. [^1]: There are tons of ways to structure your notes. In fact, it's a whole rabbit-hole of opinions and experiences and books and methods and and and... I've decided to not nerd out on that here because I think what really matters is giving your passion a way to express itself. The energy, your energy, matters more than the format right now. I'm convinced that, over time you'll find an even better way for you to express yourself. But for now and today, let's just start with asking *"Why is this important to me?"* [^2]: Your ONE note is like [[The ONE Thing]]: Once you flesh out that one thing, everything else becomes easier or unnecessary. [^3]: Great readability means more people can more easily read what you have to say [^4]: In Obsidian you can open the local graph for any note, even this one, by 1. Clicking on the three-dot menu-item top-right of the window, 2. Clicking on the menu-item "Open local graph", 3. Within the graph pane, make sure to play around with the filters, display and forces options!