I wish I knew these before creating my Obsidian vault 3 years ago

Three years ago, I downloaded Obsidian, thinking I’d finally found the perfect tool for organizing my thoughts and building a digital brain. What started as excitement quickly turned into frustration as I made one wrong move after another. My approach was all wrong from the beginning, and I wasted months reorganizing and restarting from scratch. I watched too many advanced YouTube tutorials, which got me caught up trying to build the perfect system instead of focusing on what actually matters. My vault became a source of stress and confusion rather than productivity, and I found myself quitting Obsidian, only to return a few months later.