making /obsidian • writing stephango.com

Research @ Atomic | @astorventures, @mohrdavidow, @kernel0x, cs @harvard

Forgive the finickiness of my mind. 

Who has tl;dr flows for using Obsidian? (most important needs)

- daily notes page (how do you use it)
- thought structures (folder or file setup)
- referencing or backlinks (how do you use it)

cc: @kepano @laura

head down for a bit, a lot of work to do. /grey "World Builder"

I use the following note types in Obsidian:

- Daily notes
- Quick capture notes (zettel format)
- Evergreen notes
- Clippings from web clipper
- Reference notes (people, places, books, movies, concepts)

Try to be mostly folderless, except for meta stuff like templates

You can read my philosophy on evergreen notes here:

https://stephanango.com/evergreen-notes

I use the “unique note creator” core plugin for quick capture in slipbox/zettelkasten fashion

Fancy word for just a unique note title that starts with the date. Eg “2022-10-24 Idea about X”

Try to make them atomic so that I can reference them easily

I create reference notes for everything I consume or interact with e.g. books, movies, podcasts, shows, travel, products, companies, people

These also use templates to keep metadata consistent so that I can aggregate in Dataview

I use plugins to help populate the meta data e.g. Book Search plugin

The reference notes usually contain my thoughts/review of the thing with a date (e.g. when I listened to the podcast)

Every few days I revisit what I have created and write a journal entry summarizing my thoughts on the most important things

I keep a yearly note (i.e. “2022”) where I try to list the most important notes

Once a year I revisit what happened using this framework:
https://stephanango.com/40-questions

Occasionally I will block out time for a random walk through my vault

I use the random note shortcut and cruise through random notes until I find one that seems interesting to me in the moment, and write my updated thoughts on the topic or add some todos

For tasks my system is very simple. I create a weekly note and list out tasks I want to get done.

Every week I create a new note and roll over the tasks I want to keep. I usually do this from memory because I prefer that the less top of mind stuff to drop off the priority list on their own.

I also use the Kanban plugin for bigger more long term projects

Start the day with a daily note, which aggregates my entries for the day (turn on backlinks in document)

I always manually add created date as a link to my entries because file system dates are not super reliable

I use templates heavily to keep metadata consistent across note types and I use in Dataview to aggregate

Building drones and hacking on 3D renderers.

nf.td/yashkarthik

I use folders for

1. admin: templates, daily notes, meta
2. external: clippings, references, attachments

all *my* ideas and entries stay in the root

my system's pretty similar. except i use folders for types (ref, evergreen, fleeting). i no folders would reduce some mental overhead. but i feel it's just wayyy to "free" for me.