Using Obsidian as a Chess Game Database

The Trading Parallel Chess and trading share a fun truth: you can spend hundreds of hours practicing and still lose. In trading, it’s capital. In chess, it’s ELO. Both require deliberate review of past mistakes to improve. Traders keep journals. Chess players should too. I’ve found that Obsidian—a tool I already use for notes—works perfectly as a chess game database. With the Web Clipper extension and a couple of templates, every game and blunders becomes a searchable, annotated note with an embedded board. ...

January 9, 2026 · 3 min · Josep Oriol Carné

Debugging the Human OS: A Comparative Analysis of Journaling Protocols

Optimizing Internal Throughput: An Analysis of Journaling Protocols Your internal operating system requires debugging just like any complex code base. Inefficiencies, bugs (bad habits), suboptimal resource allocation – it’s all there. Journaling is essentially running diagnostics, creating log files to analyze performance and identify areas for refactoring. Different methods act like different logging levels or diagnostic tools, each with trade-offs in terms of overhead (time) and output (insight). The goal isn’t just passive observation; it’s active optimization. Identify what processes are executing efficiently and amplify them. Pinpoint bugs and memory leaks (energy drains, poor decisions) and patch them. Personally, I find a straightforward What I executed well / What crashed or needs refactoring daily log provides high signal-to-noise, but let’s dissect the common protocols available. ...

March 25, 2025 · 13 min · joor0x