How I use Obsidian
Notes on note-taking
The first time I read Kepano's - How I use Obsidian, I thought, great, but not for me.
The second time I read Kepano's - How I use Obsidian was yesterday. And yesterday, was also the day I overhauled my vault. Not completely, I need to add the category property to all the notes.
Plugins
- Dataview for overview notes
- Calendar for quickly looking at past notes
- Lumberjack for taking quick notes and logs for daily notes
Folders and Organisation
I don't like folders, either. I don't like the idea of organising things before having written the thing I want to write. That said, I have 10 folders right now, a majority of which are admin related.
These are the folders I have:
- Attachments
- Clippings
- Templates
- Days (for daily notes)
- YearEndReviews
- BooksRead
- TechNotes
- Art
- Ideas
- Poems
- BooksWritten
- Inbox
The life cycle of a note
Every note starts in the Inbox. Once I'm done with it, I move it to the root folder.
If it is a poem, a story or a idea for a story it goes to the Art folder.
Templates
- Nordletter (For the newsletter I send out weekly)
- NewNote (For every note I type)
- Three properties: aliases, tags, category
- DailyNote
- Source (For books)
How I capture information
Everything I find interesting goes in the daily note. If something comes as something longer, I create a unique note.
Most of the writing I do, happens on phone.
Book Notes
- I create a note for any book I start reading.
- Any quotes I like, I directly type to this note
- If I type a note I write, related to that book, I will add it as a link.
Publishing to the web
Ctrl+C
Ctrl+V
Replace all internal links with links from things I've put on the website earlier.