https://x.com/kepano/status/1874568842447315182
References ref - obsidian vault template
I use very few folders. I avoid folders because many of my entries belong to more than one area of thought. My system is oriented towards speed and laziness. I don’t want the overhead of having to consider where something should go.
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folder lazy
Much of my writing in Obsidian is journaling that covers completely unrelated topics within a single note. My system is geared towards allowing me to create these intersections
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intersection cross pollination
I use wiki links liberally in sentences: people, places, concepts, book titles, etc. I often use unresolved links that go to notes that are not yet created. 2. I am consistent about my naming conventions, e.g. pluralization, acronyms, etc. 3. I add aliases to catch alternate spellings or names.
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lemmatizing
I don't really use the search plugin to find individual notes, I use it while I am working on a project and want to find all mentions of a word/idea/phrase.
This system is lazy in the sense that I don't have to spend time thinking about how my notes are organized, they organize themselves based on the internal links I create.
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lazy
What about tags? 5+ years ago I used tags, but now I mostly use links. Links work better for me because they take me to a note rather than a search. I like this Wikipedia-like flow better, because it keeps me in context of my notes.
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This is similar to how I used tags, then moved to tag pages, and now I don't bother calling them tag pages anymore... they're just pages.
When it comes to structured data about references to movies, books, podcasts, etc — I use Obsidian Web Clipper extensively to capture people, genres, etc and store them as wikilinks in the note metadata.
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literature note
People have learned that best way to organize digital notes, to come to new insights, is to tweet - not using folders and to densely link between them. This creates huge "graphs" of interconnected notes where it is easy to click between them to make novel connections between seemingly unrelated ideas, which can lead to profound insights.