Tips on using Obsidian
The basics
This goes for how I blog as well, but If I had to search for something on the internet to find information, I’ll generally brain-dump the search terms as well as the answer because that’s how I’m going to find it later.
Organisation
I use … a variation on Zettelkasten. It is an organisation system where “one idea is an object”. Don’t make megaposts unless they’re indexes, IMO. Break them up, they’re free.
The layout’s pretty chill. New notes go in a folder called “Random” and if I think there’s a big collection to be made, like “Programming” or “Linux” then things get put in there. I’m not particularly strict about it though because search and tagging is my main discovery method.
Daily notes
Super useful for just dumping random nonsense into as you’re working on things. I’ve started using them as link references as well from notes to keep track of when things happen.
My daily notes start with this template, and the filename is just %Y-%m-%d in the _Changelog directory in my vault.
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authors:
- James Hodgkinson
tags:
-
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Use tags/links within the vault everywhere you can. The graph view is kinda neat, but being able to click around and find related things is fantastic. Yes, your notes might look like a #linkedin post but .. that’s OK :) You can also put them in the frontmatter (see my daily notes template)
How I sync my vault
All of it’s in a git repository, sync’d to github. I have a script that does it for me, moving daily notes to the archive directory after a period to keep the daily folder to a sensible size when it opens up. Once you have a few hundred it gets weird.
Dataview
I’ve only started using dataview lately, but is a pretty neat plugin that lets you use the metadata in your vault to do things.
Kanidm preview
