## Journey Idea Validation Experiment 1 | Step | Description | Validated? | | ----------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------- | | Inspiration | "Perfume, Defence and David Bowie's Wedding" by Brian Eno | Yes | | Idea | The outllines for many exciting texts already exist in my vault. By connecting the dots between two notes, there lies a journey and a fun text to be written. | | | Customer | Creators using Obsidian like myself | Yes | | Problem | I can't generate new texts fast enough. I want to create more good stuff but I spend too much time in the 'boilerplate' and in 'the weeds.' I have hundreds of notes, I've done all the right things but I still don't publish signficantly better texts. I still don't have a lot of fun writing longer texts for publishing. I haven't published much novel texts yet even though I've used and fed my Zettelkasten/Obsidian for weeks and months! I know I should (and want to) publish every day as a solid investment into my future but I get stuck because I don't have outlines to follow and flesh out. | Yes | | Solution | Use the shortest path between two notes as the outline/backbone of a new text. | No | | --- | --- | --- | | Hypothesis | I believe that connecting the dots between two notes will give me an outline that I'm interested in fleshing out. | No | | --- | --- | --- | | Method | Create five different outlines with the following approach: Manually select two interesting notes, find the shortest path between them in the graph view and create an outline. | | | Success Criterion | 20% (1/5) outlines catch my attention and create excitement for me to continue working on. | | ### Experiment Notes - Outline 1 – Start and end with something currently exciting and find a path - Start: Free Bouncing - My Most Interesting Things At the Moment - Welcome to my digital garden - Dangerous Writing Obsidian Plugin - End: Obsidian Plugin Development - Outline 2 – Start with the end, then go in reverse - Start: Adult ADHD - ADHD and Glasses Example - My Most Interesting Things At the Moment - End: Your amazing YOUness - Check-in - Yes, the current tools are not optimized to make this quick. - It's quiet tedious actually and not so much fun to "wade through." - Starting with a local graph of the 'Start note' - Or starting with the 'end note' and 'reverse-engineer' an interesting path (Outline 2) - Outline 3 – Start with a random note and click through - Start: AND Person - Digital Garden 🌱🌳🍇 - My Most Interesting Things At the Moment - 21-Day Obsidian Publish Challenge - End: My mothers death in 2018 - Outline 4 – Start with the full graph and pick an interesting note and click through - Start: Creative Remixing - Creative Remixing Examples - Huel - Fast Food - KFC - Positive Self-Worth Messages - Adequate and Positive Self-Worth - Humanism - End: Self-Worth and the Road to Fulfilment - Check-in: - Just because you start with note X, doesn't mean it has to be in that direction - Only follow forward-pointing links - Outline 2, 3 and 4 are interesting - Started 4 with an open graph - Open local graph (depth 1) - Clicked through to the next interesting note - Collected each on the way - Does it matter where you start? (Note: Luhmann said it doesn't really) ### Experiment Results I really like the outlines so far. Good stuff. Solution validated. ### Experiment Decision Continue with easier UI.