A different paradigm: Obsidian as an interface for the file explorer

@zacl
The vault structure is pretty arbitrary. The only thing that matters is having the following in place:

  • Obsidian-vault folder (l1)
    • Note vault (l2)
    • Regular documents A (l2)
    • Regular documents B (l2)
    • Regular documents C (l2)

I then decided to keep all content related to my note in the Note vault. There it is divided as:

  • Misc
  • Files and Figures
  • Knowledge
  • Projects
    • Project 1
    • Project 2

MOC goes into misc, figures (and very occasional files) go into files and figures, and the rest goes into Knowledge if it is knowledge (no sub-folders), or project if it is project-related information (each project gets its folder). Everything put together looks roughly like that:

  • Obsidian-vault folder (l1)
    • Note vault (l2)
      • Misc
      • Files and Figures
      • Knowledge
      • Projects
        • Project 1
        • Project 2
    • Regular documents A (l2)
    • Regular documents B (l2)
    • Regular documents C (l2)

@jazavchar
The key perk of this approach is that if you open your vault at l1, you can link to everything. Yet since all your notes themselves are in a separate folder, it is easy to just back those up (using git for example) without including all the other files you are linking to (so if you have a lot of lecture videos for example like I do this is very convenient).

I haven’t found a good solution for zotero yet aside from using the zotero plugin currently in beta (it lets you insert citations and links to open a paper in zotero, which is good enough I guess).

Hope that helps!