16 Obsidian Templates For Zettelkasten To Start With

Not @macio.macias, but I thought I’d chime in.

There are several benefits to UIDs in the Zettelkasten part of my Obsidian.

  1. UIDs allow me to start writing a note and leave the title empty while I figure out the essense of the note.

  2. UIDs allow me to write a note about some nebulous concept or thought, then write a very lengthy title. (I could still do this using file names, but that would make wikilinks more cumbersome to read.)

  3. UIDs allow me to write titles that contain wikilinks and other inline markdown syntax such as math and code blocks.

  4. In general, I believe that interlinks should be deliberate. I am not on the “linking just because you can” camp. Searching up another note and copying its filename adds some friction, but it’s at the end of the day a good type of friction.

I use the “Front Matter Title” plugin to show the first heading instead of the filename in file browser and graph view.